Consitpation in 8 month old-Help!

we've been dealing w/ this for a month ---

3-5 small dry poops a day that don't bother 8.5 mo dd, but then about 1x a week or so she gets one that seems to, and then we use a sppository. all better, then it begins again. we upped juice (pitted ones work best) and prunes, but still! a tsp of flax oil in food seems to do wonders. we cut out grains and bananas, too, though millet seems ok (but not barley, rice, or oats). no formula here. either.

i posted about this before and someone suggested allergies, but i'm thinking it's more likely just a pokey gi system (she still has no teeth, so maybe that's a sign?)

since we seems to stay just this side of manageable, i've not gone to the ped about it, but will mention it next time.

a friend dealt w/ this for over a year and said raw milk works WONDERS. Also there is an rx called siimulax (?) that is not addictive that can help, she said.

i know how frustrating this is! hoping for more responses...

my dd had a slow digestive system since birth. When she was on breastmilk alone, she at times would go up to 10 days without having a bowel movement. but was never uncomfortable. When she started solids at 8 months (she was ripping them out of our hands) her stool became very firm, not quite of the rabbit pellet variety but firm, at least she ws going once a day, but it was uncomfortable and took a long time to pass and is was impossible for her to go in a diapers (I think the poop hitting the diaper made it too hard for her to push out) same here, we got rid of the bananas and all obvioius grains, we never fed her rice cereal anyway.

But one day last month at 10 months, the problem just went away! all on its own, not she can eat her bananas and cheerios, and her stool is soft (makes for a mess in the diapers lol) and she has no more problems at all..

just wanted to let you know that with age it can get better.

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definately the problem, like I said when my dd 's body was ready for the solid food the slow stool problem disappeared.

This is really timely - we're battling the same issues with my DD. She'll be fine for awhile, but then I'll go and do something stupid like add some oatmeal cereal with iron (even just a teaspoon of the stuff in several tablespoons of fruit) and she'll slow down and need help after a couple days.

We recently started finger foods and I'm thinking the organic "cheerios" might be to blame for the last slow down.

What works for us is 100% homemade grains - I toast grains and then grind them up and use stuff like quinoa and brown rice instead of the boxed cereals. She eats a lot of fruit, but rarely bananas. I also give her organic prune juice most days.

She'll be nine months old in a couple weeks and only gets two solid "meals" a day, and these are always followed by nursing. I'd say she gets maybe 4-5 ounces of "food" a day, an ounce or so of juice and the rest is breast milk on demand. We've had to use the glycerin suppository about 5 times since starting solids in earnest, and I've been worried about what negative effects that might have. So while most moms are gradually increasing solids, I'm usually cutting back to a couple days of just breast milk and maybe a fruit "meal" and then slowly building solids back up. I'm really encouraged by the PP who said that their DC outgrew this as their bodies matured to the point of truly being ready for solids.