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What Causes Constipation In 2 Month Old?

My 2.5- month old has started to move her bowels every 2-3 days since 3 weeks ago and when she did, it’s almost like she had a "blow-out". Recently though, she hasn’t moved her bowel for the past 8 days and she’s been passing a lot of smelly gases for the past 2 weeks or so. Overall, she seems to be quite comfortable, occasionally, I saw her grunted a little bit and then she passed the gas. She’s exclusively breastfed

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Bery
Tue, 4 Apr 2017
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Hello dear.
Its abdominal colic.Babies who are exclusively breastfed get abdominal colic and it settles on its own after 4-6 months when weaning is started.But you can do few manouvers like abdominal massage to relieve this.
At present you should relieve constipation by the help of infant sized glycerine suppository to empty the bowel and make her relax.
After that you can use home made remedies (green tea made from a 3-4 fennel seeds in 3 glass of water and boil it)and give her about one ounce in with cup and spoon whenever she has colic.Do not give more than 2 ounces per day of this green tea and also dont use feeder.See abdominal colic massage on youtube and do this massage twice a day for 10 mins to make her relaxed.
I would recommend to start weaning at 4 months of age with rice based cereal initially made very very thin like milk shake.
Hope it will help.
Wishing your child good health.
stay blessed :-)
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What Causes Constipation In 2 Month Old?

Hello dear. Its abdominal colic.Babies who are exclusively breastfed get abdominal colic and it settles on its own after 4-6 months when weaning is started.But you can do few manouvers like abdominal massage to relieve this. At present you should relieve constipation by the help of infant sized glycerine suppository to empty the bowel and make her relax. After that you can use home made remedies (green tea made from a 3-4 fennel seeds in 3 glass of water and boil it)and give her about one ounce in with cup and spoon whenever she has colic.Do not give more than 2 ounces per day of this green tea and also dont use feeder.See abdominal colic massage on youtube and do this massage twice a day for 10 mins to make her relaxed. I would recommend to start weaning at 4 months of age with rice based cereal initially made very very thin like milk shake. Hope it will help. Wishing your child good health. stay blessed :-)