Constipation

Midwife told me to use brown sugar in warm water and if that didnt work to use coloxyl which worked for us but took a day to kick in. Took josh to A&E a few weeks ago in middle of the night and turned out he was just badly constipated and they gave us lactalose which worked too well and then at the docs a day or two later he told us we should never have been given it as its too harsh for babies.

Making all your formula up with extra water in it is good at preventing constipation and if it doesnt stop happening after a month on that formula definately change. Constipation is common when starting and switching formulas so expect it in the begining only blame the formula if it keeps happening. We use SMA for hungrier babies now and we havent had a problem yet. We started with Karicare (not gold) and the constipation stopped after a month on it.