Need a bit of help

My little boy is 6 months old, he haven’t been able to poo for a few days he last went about 4/5 days ago but for the last two days he’s been trying to pop he’s straining and screaming so bad I’ve given him gripe water and lactulose and still nothing… what do I do? Wait till the morning and ring the doctors or wait till he poo’s or ring out of hours??

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If you’ve started weaning then try prunes! Worked well for us xx

Apple juice! It worked pretty much immediately for us

Keep going with the lactulose and offer sips of water regularly

Yoghurt works a dream. And try sorting him on the toilet with knees to belly (like how we poo). We started EC just before weaning and it’s helped constipation massively

hiya what does EC mean?

Elimination communication. 😁 I look for signs he needs the toilet, although we do it loosely, basically whenever I change a nappy, I put him on the toilet. 9/10 we do a wee and he now tells us when he needs a poo mostly, he does lots of little farts, screws up his face, then gives us 2 minutes to get to the toilet 😂

Sorry for not getting back to anyone but thank you all for giving me things to help with him, he had a blockage so he ended up on movicol in the end to help him but had to go through hospital for it

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