Breastfeeding, Leep, Baby Eating Cereal and Getting Bound

It could be the cereal, or if you are giving him formula, it can be that as well. At 4 months, he does not need cereal. The AAP doesn't recommend food til 6 months. Rice is very binding, when you give cereal, I'd go with a whole grain baby cereal or baby oatmeal instead of rice. I would try nursing and pumping more - giving cereal and formula will diminish your supply. Also, a bf mom can eat prunes or other laxative types of foods and your baby will get some of the effect
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its proly all the new stuff at once, the formula, breast milk and cereal. You can put a little karo syrup in his bottle and that will help, or buy a soy based formula, sometimes the extra iron in reg formula will bind a baby. As far as production buy fenugreek and blessed thistle pills at your health food store. Take 3 pills of each, 3 times per day and it will work! I am breastfeeding my 3rd and cause of some health issues of the baby I am having to pump and put it into bottles and adda a little formula to it and my supply dropped alot. But taking the pills helped a ton! My lactation consultant recommended em and my friend, who is also nursing, is taking them, recommended by her lactation consultant. Good luck!

well if he is getting back up from the cereal then i would stop giving it too him. He is still really young and doesn't need cereal yet. If he is getting backed up that is his bodies way of saying he's not ready for it yet. It's too hard on his tummy. So just stick to breast milk and formula. Remember for the first year of life they need mostly breast milk or formula. I would just hold off until around 6 months and then give it a try again.

I feel like the best way I relieved my daughter was to give her prunes - it's one of the more natural ways to relieve babies of constipation. I would mix some in her cereal (she was 8 mos though) or you can put some prune juice in the bottle. My ped also recommended dark Karo syrup but you will read some scary things about this online (botulism)... I also agree with another post about stopping the cereal for now. It's not a necessity at this age and you can try again in a couple of months. Good luck.

No, his system is telling you it's not ready for food, go back to bottle/nursing only for about another month or so to give his little system time to grow. Try it again then go back to just bottle/nursing again if it happens again...

Formula and mother's milk is total nutrition. Nothing else is needed if you don't want to feed food until the baby is much older.