The old constipation issue....

Worst culprit is puree apple and pear. My DD was fine as we did BLW and have never had consitpation issues. I think you give about a teaspoon of sugar to a cup of water, then only a teaspoon of that mix, but not 100% on that. Good luck

Thanks guys. When I dilute the prune juice, how much do you then give?

Does anyone have a list of the most common constipating foods? My boy has always had slow bowel movements at the best of times, so I suspect this is going to be a bit of an issue for us. His nappies are still sodden so I am sure he's getting enough milk still.

Bananas and apples are terrible for constipation. Pears are great.
I used to get dried prunes, cover in boiling water and give DS the juice when it cooled, it was only ever about 5ml and always sorted him out within a day.
Good luck

Depends on the baby! You name it (even apple and prune), it will clog DS up. We tried brown sugar and water (1tsp sugar to 50ml water) and it did nothing.

We have had to give him coloxyl drops and at one point, had to do an enema after 17 days of nothing. Most unpleasant.

You want to do the opposite of the BRAT diet which is used for diarrhoea (banana, rice, apple, toast).

Yes it does, DD took 6 days to go poo the first week she went on solids I tried everything prune juice, sugar water and it all had to wait.

I make sure she has water with every meal and I limit foods that are binding and/or I have combine them with foods that aren't.

Worst culprits are - bananas, apple puree and kumara.
Foods that aren't - pumpkin, pears and prunes.

DD loves prune juice I made my own by pouring boiling water on to prunes and leaving to steep till cold. Drain and use the juice and I mushed up the prunes and put them with apple.

I limit banana to once a week, and I put pear with apple and pumpkin with kumara.

I've never bothered with baby rice was told to steer clear of it by a naturopath. We went straight on to porridge after 3 weeks of solids.

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Aethalia wrote: Worst culprit is puree apple and pear. My DD was fine as we did BLW and have never had consitpation issues. I think you give about a teaspoon of sugar to a cup of water, then only a teaspoon of that mix, but not 100% on that. Good luck

I have to disagree on the pear front, at least in our experience...pears the first food DS had and they've been the one thing that's helped keep him moving from day 1...

banana's are the worst/

Diluted prune juice works but i found that a very little bit of kiwifruit or fejoa works well to mixed in with other food.

Their little bodies aren't used to the fibre it doesn't take long for them to adjust. Within a couple of weeks DD was back to her regular habits.

I have used baby magic tea for my constipated baby and got good results. He's now having bowel movement once a day and he can easily poop.