Will Gerber Pear Juice help my baby with constipation ?

Question

She 7 months old she is constipated everytime she goes does a bowel movement she gets red pushes and cries sometimes then her little buthole gets irrited . I have heard that pear juice works so I bought it how much should I give her and should I mixed it with water ? I tried prune gerber & yes she pooped but still it was hard poop .

Answer 1

I agree on cutting back on the solids if baby is eating a lot. If baby eats too many solids too soon it causes them to get stopped up because they can't handle it. At this age solids should not be the main part of a baby's diet, the main source of nutrition should still be breast milk or formula until 1 year.



*EDIT* Bahaha, Karen you are one to talk, that woman never has good advice! I agree with Proud Parents, too much solid food and not enough breast milk/formula most certainly can cause constipation -



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Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

Well, first make sure she's not eating rice cereal. Rice cereal is a natural constipation causing food. So are soybeans (if you have her on soy formula or have been feeding her tofu or something). Bananas can also cause some people to firm up, so if she's eating a lot of bananas you might want to ease off on those as well. With cereal, use oatmeal or barley or just skip it altogether. If she's on formula and not breastmilk (it's more common with formula because of the added iron, so forgive me if you're breastfeeding and I got that wrong) then you might want to consider switching to a gentle-ease type formula. I've had doctors talk about the good experiences they've had in just putting babies on that from day one. It's lower in lactose and more processed. It can help.



Sorbitol is the sugar in prunes that helps a baby to poop. It's not very digestible, so it basically moves right through you. The best foods to help with that are pears, prunes, peaches and pineapples (there's others of course, but those are easy to remember and have high amounts of sorbitol.) Pineapples aren't appropriate until they're a bit older, but the others you can definitely try. The juice can help, but you want to give it a little every day, not just once in a while or just when you notice she's constipated. But if you want variety then looking up sorbitol levels in foods can give you more options. You want just a little every day, to keep her regular. You can mix it with water if she doesn't like it straight, but with my daughter I just would give her 1.5-2oz a day mixed into her bottle, and that was more than enough (I started with 1/2 an oz and then increased slowly until I saw the amount she needed.) I'd probably do the slow introduction like I did, the whole 1/2oz, then increase by 1/2 every 2-3 days if she doesn't respond to that amount.



Personally, since she's 7 months old, I'd just buy some pureed pears/peaches/prunes, or buy some fresh fruit and mash it up at home and feed it to her that way. The extra fiber in the fruit will actually help move things along. Fiber is sort of like filler, the sorbitol makes it keep moving, so it's a pretty good natural combination and works a lot better than the juice to help with the hard poops. Keep in mind that unless the poop is dry or harder than peanutbutter, it's not real constipation.



The other thing to try is to get her on her feet, and get her off her butt. A lot of things out there put pressure on their rumps, and that can make pooping a bit harder. It's easier to poop standing up. She's 7 months old, and can't really stand up yet usually, but the more you can get her on her feet with you holding her by the hands or under the arms (not put in a bouncer where her rump where the support is, or a walker for the same reason) the better she'll move the poops through. When my daughter was having constipation issues I tried to make sure she was on her feet like that and bouncing or trying to walk for about 10 minutes of every hour at least (when she was awake.) Tummy time also definitely helps, as does swimming or being in the bath with you and helping her swim in there and kick. The more time off her butt she can have the more likely she'll be to poop, and the less hard they will be.



Add: Something else that you may want to consider is again if you are using formula, so forgive me if you're using breastmilk. Measuring mistakes are extremely common. Make sure that you fill the water while the bottle is on a level surface so that the water is level. Also make sure to take into account the meniscus, that's when the water makes a U or a bubble sort of on the top of something, it can throw off measurements. To minimize the meniscus, fill the bottle with water, get the water all along the walls of the bottle, and then empty and refill. You would be surprised how many parents short-change their baby maybe 1/8-1/10 of an oz of water every meal, and how that can add up over time and cause constipation.



Add: Just a note about juices. It really doesn't matter, so long as it's 100% juice to be honest. But you don't want 'less sugar' because it's that sorbital (a sugar) that you WANT them to have for the effects. So I wouldn't use 'motts for tots' in this instance. It just may not work as well. Gerbers infant juices do not add sugar that I'm aware of, it's all that natural sugar.

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Answer 6

Ok, "proud parents" has NO IDEA of what they are talking about.



Do you know why all juices have sugar? Have you ever ate a ripe apple, a ripe pear, or any RIPE fruit that WASN'T sweet?



Of course you haven't...it's because they contain NATURAL sugar.



GERBER DOES NOT ADD SUGAR, THE SUGAR CONTENT IN THE NUTRITIONAL LIST IS SUGAR THAT IS NATURAL TO THE JUICE.



So yes, you can use gerber pear juice, yes, it does work, but you DO NOT mix it with water (that defeats the purpose of giving it). If the prune juice produced a "hard" stool, then that means she needed more. Prune juice is used to relieve immediate constipation, you can use pear juice 1x per day if your kid chronically has it.



However, you need to examine the diet of the infant. The baby should ONLY be on stage 1 foods at this point and still taking a significant amount of iron-fortified formula.



If you have pushed your kid on solids or use a soy-based formula, then that is causing the constipation.

Answer 7

If she's that constipated I would recommend cutting back on the solids and upping the formula or breast milk intake. Many times baby's that young that are constipated, are so because they are eating too much and not taking enough formula or breast milk.

Answer 8

yes any juice will help. i would suggest not using ANYTHING gerber. there is a lot of sugar in it. i use "motts for tots" it has 40% less sugar then other juices. plus gerber gives you that TINY bottle for REALLY expensive for NO reason. lol. but if you get motts for tots you dont have to mix with any water

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Is there a reason? Like, is the baby constipated? A little apple juice mixed with water 1/3 about helps with constipation, but my doctor had me use pear juice and it worked a LOT better. That was the only time I used juice at so young an age. But you want to check with a doctor first, and use the baby gerber juice so that it doesn't have any added sugar. My daughter is 20 months old, and gets maybe 3 juices a week, the rest of the time she drinks water in the daytime, milk at night. She PREFERS water over most juice, but sometimes she needs it to help things move along. Those studies saying "they become obese" and "your child won't drink water!" are based on parents who basically give their child juice and only juice. If you offer water more often, and juice as an occasional treat, they still love water. My daughter doesn't even have a word for juice. But "wawa..." is what she asks for, and points to when we pass a fountain for a drink, and prefers over all. Add: The APA's recommendations are based on the fact that most parents see juice as nutritious and so the parents don't set intake limits. In other words, if you're stupid and let your child drink juice for every drink every day, they're going to gain weight and have dental problems, not that they should never drink juice or that it's not good for children at all. I have found nothing so far that has said that for under 4 months a LITTLE juice mixed in with formula or water isn't acceptable to help with constipation. "Certain fruits and juices - for example prunes, apple juice, apricots - are rich in sorbitol, a nondigestible sugar that passes through the body to the colon and causes water to be retained or drawn into the stool mass. They can be increased in the diet to loosen the stool and relieve or prevent constipation." "If you decide to offer fruit juice as a "drink" try waiting until baby is at least 8 months old. **Offering juice as a constipation remedy is acceptable as young as 4 months old with the consult of your pediatrician**" "To ensure your children aren't drinking too much juice, follow these limits from the American Academy of Pediatrics: * Birth to 6 months: No fruit juice, unless it's used to relieve constipation" "Recent data has shown that 100% fruit juice consumption is not related to children becoming overweight." So yeah. If the baby is constipated, a 1/3 or 1/4 ratio can be used WITH doctor approval.

Answer 10

Pear juice, diluted, can be a great help.