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My baby will be a week old on friday & she's constipated. is there anything she can take for her constipation? please help!
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Depends: Straining or irregular stooling doen not mean constipation.The 1 wo breast fed kid may go 7-10 days without a stool or poo a little at each meal.As long as it is soft, i don't consider that constipation. If the kid is putting out dry rabbit pellets or stool bigger than your finger you can sometimes tease a stool out using vasaline on a q-tip inserted to the length of the cotton & worked around.
Answered 12/9/2013
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