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Can i give my 8 day old baby brown sugar water to ease struggles when passing stool?
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? is stool hard ?: Young infants lay flat on their back to poop & need their breathing muscle (often grunting or crying) to generate the pressure to push it out. Their belly muscles are too loose to do what older kids do. If it is soft when they go, there is no need to treat. If rabbit pellets, then 1 oz of full strength prune juice 1-3X/d will get them moving. I don't give sugar to babies.
Answered 6/29/2018
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