HELP! Constipated 1 month old!

[PepsiChic]

Since 4 weeks we noticed he would struggle to poop, would strain but generally get it out and be happy afterwards, but its got progressively worse.

We tried gas drops thinking maybe he was gassy and then it was causing constipation, but this doesnt seem to be the problem, he passes gas all day long without an issue without the gas drops, and he burps fine after a feed.

But pooping? its a nightmare, he strwtches his legs right out tense and then pulls them back up in a fetal position and repeats over and over. He gets so worked up too it can be hard to get him to calm down, and can take hours.

so over night he slept...6hours total, and during the day 2 hours so far

Ive had 4 hours sleep, ime xhausted too.

I hate seeing him so upset and clearly in discomfort. I called his dr but they were closed.

Is there anything I can do for him to help with the constipation that is safe?

 

[weejenb]

My LO has been like this too. The HV got me to give him 1/2 oz-1oz of cooled boiled water between feeds. This worked for like a day and then stopped lol, so we gave him diluted OJ-1oz of OJ and 3oz of water, split between two bottles, that did the trick too!

I would start with the cooled boiled water and see if that helps

 

[PepsiChic]

is it boiled first just for sterilized reasons?

If so would that mean we could use sterilized bottled water instead? we dont drink the tap water here as its very hard, we buy bottled baby water

 

[weejenb]

Yeah, in the UK we always have to use boiled water for sterilising reasons.

Hope you get your LO feeling better soon xx

 

[PepsiChic]

Yeah, in the UK we always have to use boiled water for sterilising reasons.

Hope you get your LO feeling better soon xx

thankyou!

I gave him 1ml of the water before I fed him, so we'll see how that goes!

Ive also bycicled his legs and did the Tiger In a Tree hold and patted his butt, so hopefully we'll have a good night.

hes been up form 10am till 10pm and then woke up again at 00:30pm (its 00:48pm now) I feel awful that he just wont settle.

thats and im absolutely beyond exhausted!