Home Remedies

Many parents wonder if their baby is having an issue with constipation. If you baby’s excessively fussy, having more spit-up than usual, has excessively hard stools, or works really hard to pass them for 10 minutes or more without success, or if your baby has dramatically fewer than before, then it’s definitely possible that your baby has constipation. Also if your baby ever has blood or mucus in the stool, it’s best to bring that up with the pediatrician. So if you still feel like your baby is constipated after hearing those signs, and you did mention that your baby strains and does’t have any success, and goes multiple days in between bowel movements, and shows visual signs of it being difficult – it sound like you talked to the pediatrician, and that’s the best thing you can do. The pediatrician can work with you and talk about your baby’s bowel habits, the things you’ve tried, the things you haven’t tried.

Now for small infants, there are a couple of things you can do, and your baby still kind of fits in this category, being 3 months of age or younger. You can actually give your baby juice. So you can give an ounce a day for every month of life. For example – so if your baby is 3 months old, you could give 3 ounces of juice a day, and apple or pear juice actually help babies with constipation. You can also try karo syrup, about 1 to 2 tablespoons a day until your baby is having regular bowel movements. But if these basic home remedies don’t help, then you need to follow your doctor’s advice. Keep in touch with the doctor, let them know what’s working, and what’s not, and based on the things that aren’t working, they may know other things that you can try. They can also decide if your baby’s condition warrants further investigation or treatment if there’s anything behind the constipation that needs to be addressed. Good luck with everything, and if you have any other questions for me, please feel free to ask them on our Facebook page, and recommend us to your friends and family too.

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