Constipation with baby

My baby is 10 weeks old and has been on laxatives for the past 3 weeks because he would go toilet every couple of days and would scream in pain. He is on formula, we do the stretches and exercises and baths to help but nothing seems to work. He is still weeing and passing wind with no issues. I don’t want to keep him on the laxatives but when I take him off, he stops going toilet again. The laxatives also seems to not be working as well anymore as he doesn’t go toilet everyday. Any advice is welcome?
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What milk are you using x

I’m using kendamil colic and constipation. I was using the organic version but thought this one would help better xx

Try colief! It’s so good! My baby is 7 months and we still use it!! Xx

Water and a teaspoon of molasses! In a bottle

Old method but try putting a little amount of oil on your palm and rub that oil in your baby’s poo area and it’ll make them poo within an hour or so. I tried with my baby and it works

Sounds really silly but have you increased his feed amounts. Or changed how you’ve made his bottles? I didn’t read my formula tin properly as there isn’t a massive age gap between my eldest and this little one but my formula has changed from number of scoops and ounces of water matching to now being mls to scoops. So instead of 4 ounces being 4 scoops it’s now 120mls to 4 scoops

Has your GP checked to see if you LO has a milk protein allergy? My LO had the same problems, wouldn’t poo for days at a time and after every feed would scream and scream in pain, I didn’t notice any other symptoms than that but it was unbearable at times as he was inconsolable and there was nothing I could do because Infacol or Gripe water never worked if anything made it worse. We have been prescribed Aptamil Pepti 1 and he’s so much better now and poos much more regularly and just generally a much happier baby!

What laxative are you using? We started with Movicol but didn’t work, now we use lactulose and it works a treat keeping my girl going regularly

Try rubbing across the middle of babies foot back and forth and then rubbing their heal in a circular motion clockwise - do it for about 5minutes. This works really well!

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