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It's not necessarily constipation, but if you have reason to beleive it is, our pediatrician said you can equal parts of prune juice to H20 to help with constipation. Another pediatrician (family friend) recommended 1TB of maple syrup in 4-6 oz of formula.

Quick question BBK,is it regular pancake/waffle maple syrup or does it have to be PURE maple syrup????

I was told that it is dark karo syrup.

i was told prune juice (if it doesnt work watered down use straight prune juice) i have found that cranberry juice works for my dd she is 7 months

Shelly it's certaily the pure kind, otherwise it's got mostly sugar syrup blended with the pure. If you can get the pure as organic it's even better.

Thats what I thought.Where do you get the organic kind,in one of those "health stores".What about the "gripe water"?

In my neck of the woods a farmers market here sells organic maple syrup from Vermont, but the health food stores should have it as well. Gripe water has chamomile too, and even chamomile tea helps, but the syrup would be a stronger modality, as would be the prune juice. Keep in mind that it's normal for infants to go without a BM for 48 hours without being necessarily constipated.

When my baby got constipated, our family doc told us to put about a teaspoon or 2 of brown sugar in with his milk. Its a natural laxative and worked like a charm. We only did one or two bottles and it worked ok

I called the Dr. He said to feed prune pureed fruit and give prune juice and plenty of water because he is on solids now. By this evening it finally worked.

Brown sugar water is what I was told, so maybe give that a try.

my girl has been like that before I did what BBK said and it seemed to work fast water is also good for extra fluids. gripe water doesn't do anything for constipation but may help if he has cramps

It's Karo Corn Syrup that works for the little ones, although I believe Pure Maple syrup will work as well.