Prune Juice...Yum

As I mentioned in my "Finally" post, the little man has had some regularity issues. He was only going approximately every three days, which is normal for a breast fed baby. However, he seemed very uncomfortable and when he did finally go, it was much thicker than usual. As all the baby books say, frequency doesn't define constipation, consistency does. So, Carson probably wasn't full blown constipated, but since it was obvious that he was uncomfortable, I went ahead and called the pediatrician on Tuesday. (This "irregularity" had been going on for about 2 weeks now.)

Since he's about to be 4 months, they went ahead and recommended either a little diluted prune or pear juice. They also mentioned some kind of OTC medicine, but I opted to stick with the natural solutions. No particular reason, just have always heard about prune juice for constipation.

So, Momma Bear headed to HEB for some prune juice and pear juice. I made the mistake of trying to give it to him right after he ate. I mixed 1 oz of juice with 1 oz of water in a bottle. He was full and the new taste was not something he was into. I tried a little pear juice instead, he seemed to like that taste a little better, but still didn't really drink it. So, I waited until his next feeding when he would be hungry. Sure enough, my little chunk scarfed the prune juice down.


Lo and behold, about an hour later... SUCCESS!!! A HUGE success!! He was so funny. He was standing up in my lap and it was pretty clear what he was concentrating so hard on.

They said I could do the juice thing twice a day, but I'm going to just do once for now and see if he starts becoming a little more regular again. On Wednesday around lunch time, I gave him his little prune juice cocktail. Yep, it works. Poop two days in a row = AWESOME!

(You know you're a mom when you have posts about poop... wouldn't have it any other way!)