New baby with constipation-anyone else?

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Hi

My daughter is 9 days old and has really bad constipation, I've tried pure orange juice and boiled water on the advice from my midwife. Last night it took her 4hrs to push a poo out and it was very clear that she was in agony the poo was quite solid. She is bottle fed on cow n gate stage 1.

Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this, all advice g8tly appreciated. :)

My health visitor advice me to insert a q tip into my dd bum when she was constipated It really wasn't the nicest thing i have done but it helped her.
Perhaps you need to consider a change of milk?

Could you also ask on the breast/ bottle feeding forum? (I don't know anything about formula, but maybe she needs more water?) I think orange juice could be a bad idea this early on.

Hope you get things sorted soon. x

I personally wouldnt do the orange juice thing, have you tried a warm bath and the I LOVE YOU baby massage technique - it works amazingly well!!! You should be able to find it on the internet / youtube, its important you do the shapes the right way around to put 'pressure' (very gentle of course) on the right internal bits to get the bowels moving.

I have heard that some formulas can cause constipation, have you tried Aptimil? I'm sure the MW in hospital recommended that one when we were having issues establishing breastfeeding.

Thanks for all your advice :) the orange juice seems to of done the trick as her poos seem much softer last night and this morning. She also appears much calmer, ahe still takes a while at night to get to sleep.

kiwidreamer thanks I will have a look for that i love you baby massage technique, never heard of it before but willing to give it a go :) If she struggles again with the consipation will also think about changing her milk over to aptimil.

Try another forum for feeding/health issues.

Some formulas are too high in iron, which can cause constipation. You should not feed a 9 day old baby OJ though! Her digestion system probably won't be able to deal with it.

Massage is the best thing at this age. Using little circles with 2 fingers, make a rainbow over her belly button from your left to right as that follows the bowel's natural path.

Better still, as someone else said - google it!

Thanks :) the orange juice advice was given from midwife and doctor but will try the massage technique :)