Bad Constipation for 8 Month Old

Just wondering if she's eating rice fortified with iron. Sometimes the iron can cause the constipation. Or, wheat? Maybe she is sensitive to wheat or dairy. My daughter had the same problem when she started solids. The prunes didn't really help. I stopped giving her the baby rice and the constipation stopped few days after. She was in a lot of pain, the stool was hard, almost like adult poop consistency, where it should be like mashed potato consistency. She was mostly breastfeed too.

Instead of pear juice start giving her Prune juice, it will help a lot more than the pear.

Also, you can give her gas drops to help with that as well.

Stop the pear juice, switch to prune juice, and stop or ease up on the peas, beans and yogurt to see if there's any effect..

Also, and this is from experience with my little guy, make sure she's getting plenty of exercise moving around, even if she's not crawling get her moving by placing toys out of her reach so she has to move her body to get to them by scooting, rolling, dragging herself, however she chooses to move. Keep moving them to get her to move, so her poop can move through her system, otherwise she's producing the poop and it's just sitting and getting dry and too hard to pass and causing her pain.

Hope she finds relief soon.

For what its worth, my son used to go ten days between poops at that age and my doc said it was perfectly normal for a breastfeeding baby to do that. He was happy and growing just fine. Breastmilk is so healthy that there just isn't that much tease to have to poop out. If I were you, I would back off all the foods, water you've been trying to push for 2 weeks and just let your little one enjoy Breastmilk for a few weeks. I bet it would all be ok if you did.

Go to a specialist in pediatrics who knows about the digestive tract. There may be something that isn't hooked up right in her system. What you are doing isn't working. Why does she need all that food. Most babies don't until they are a year old.

You need more help than your current doctor can give you.

Try white grape/cherry juice. My son had a hard time with constipation and I tried many things also. This is the only thing that actually worked, for some reason. I always watered it down by half or so.

prune juice works wonders REAL prune juice from i think Sunsweet it will say 100% pure nothing added but maybe water. pear juice is nothing but added sugar water. Try that it may take about a week of giving her the juice but it will work.

You could use a higher quality fiber product than Benefiber or Metamucil - those OTC products don't use great stuff in them.

How about high fiber whole grain breads (I used to give my son little cubes of soft French toast) or small slivers of apple (if she can chew them? Otherwise make a pasty-style applesauce from real apples).

I think she's in pain because she's blocked up. Too many peas and beans could be creating gas too. It's high fiber but they are gassy legumes. If this doesn't clear up, get an ultrasound to check for an obstruction, just to be safe.

There's also a children's supplement (all food, no drugs) that a lot of parents use - I have friends whose children suffered like yours and relieved the problem while also giving the kids tons of protein, nutrition and DHA for the brain.

Try putting her on a probiotic. This will help her digestion. Try a powdered form of Bifidus or Primadophilus. These are both good for the little ones. My son started Bifidus at 2 wks old. It is safe and it adds the good bacteria that little bodies haven't developed enough of . It can help her system process the foods better.

Also, ditto to a previous poster of the iron in cereal. It can cause you to back up and have hard stools.

Good luck to your little one.