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This isn't advice as much as making people aware or armed if going through the same thing.
When Kailee hit 11months of age, she suddenly started becoming constipated. Everyone told me not to worry as all babies go through a stage of constipation, we struggled on and changed her
off the S26 formula. We had been alternating her with formula and cow's milk, until she refused to take the cows milk and then refused to take the bottle, thought this was a little odd. 2 weeks later of having little sleep since she wouldn't settle without the bottle, we finally got her to take it , just with formula again. This is now 2months since the problems first started. I take her back to the GP and he tells me to try a syrup called Lactulose, just 5mls twice a day. and still there was nothing. We were starting to hit a point where our only option was to give her an infants glycerine suppositories. I took her to another GP, he told me not to panic that it was normal and would go away.... not what I wanted to hear. So I walked out of his rooms and immediately booked into another GP, there was no way I was letting my then 14month old suffer with all this pain and a split bum every second day. I didn't even bother asking him about the constipation, I asked for a referral to her paediatrician, telling him she was due for a review on her postural talipes.
A week later we were in with the Paed, and she explained to me that for some reason unbeknown to the medical profession, cases of constipation has tripled in babies and there is no definite reason why as when it begins nothing changes in the diet. I started feeling a little relieved that someone was taking me seriously and would help my little girl. I told her about the Lactulose we had been using, she almost fell over when I told her how much, it was a quarter of what she should have been having, any wonder it hadn't helped. She gave me a structured guide to managing her dosage, and now 3months later, she has been passing movement consistently with the help of the Lactulose. We started at 20mls twice a day, and now are down to 5mls twice a day, we hope to one day get her totally off the Lactulose but it doesn't seem as though it is too likely to happen just yet.
Ever since the constipation stopped, she has been a completely different child. She was beginning to go backwards in her development because she was in such constant pain, and now she is a thriving little girl with a large vocab and can put 3 word sentences together. It is amazing how something so common can cause such big problems.
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