15 days and counting without a poo!

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Hi, DS is 19 weeks and exclusively BF. He was going around every 4-5 days, but now it has been 15 days since any movement. He is weeing fine and stomach is soft, he is happy but I do think he is spitting up more milk for the past week. I have not changed my diet.

The HV suggested diluted prune juice but DS just spat is all up - no matter how I gave it, bottle or cup. Now today the doctor prescriber lactulose, 2.5ml twice a day and gave me syringes to administer it, but I am worried he will still spit it all up..not sure how best to give it really so he keeps it down.

Has anyone been in the same situation? I have read babies can go 3 weeks but this is pretty long already! DS is not a heavy baby, only 13lb 3 but he is quite tall, so I am wondering if he has been using all the milk for growth...

15 days is a very long time. Ds used to go 10 days but he was a bit dehydrated.

Did you try the prune juice with a syringe squirted into the side of his mouth, tiny bit by tiny bit?? You can use the same technique for lactulose.

I didn't try the prune juice with a syringe yet, but will try the lactulose like that. Thanks

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you could try drinking the prune juice as some of it will get into the baby through yor milk and it would be diluted. Just an idea.

Hi, hopefully your baby has had a poo by now, but just to reassure you, my baby went 16 days without one recently and was prescribed senna in the end. It did the trick. I tip him back to give it to him, and just a little at a time. He has to take it every day for a month to remind his bowel how to eliminate! The doctor tole me it wasn't a laxative but a stimulant, as it is unlikely that DS is constipated, but just has a lazy bowel.