Hi everyone, I have permission to post. A mom has called me off and on for the past few months with constipation in her 7 month old. She has exclusively breastfed him until about 5 months at which time she introduced solids slowly. Since he was about 2 months old he was one of those babies who stooled only once per week. She was always concerned about this but I reassured her that he was well, given that he gained well and thrived. She has always had a good but not overabundant supply of milk. She reports the baby continues to breastfeed several times per day , at least every 3 hours , and at night. He is eating a variety of solids including cereal, fruit and veggies. He continues to have infrequent stools but now they are very dry, round and hard. I have never seen this in a breastfed baby before. She has tried feeding him different fruits, not feeding him solids and only breastfeeding but little change. The Pediatrician has no worries. She is going to ask for a referral to a pediatric gastro for further evaluation. She is asking me if there is anything she should add/ change in her own diet. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Kim Scott IBCLC Public Health Nurse Miramichi New Brunswick Canada *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html