Pregnancy Constipation
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Anonymous
| I feel you soooo much on this. I'm 32 weeks pregnant and here is what I've done. I've never experienced constipation in life until pregnancy and I was nearly in tears every day at your stage. I started taking 2 fiber gummie vitamins every day (you can just find them on Amazon, Target, etc), I eat raisin bran every morning, I drink a ton of water, from about week 10 to week 28 I drank a small can of prune juice every day (disgusting, I know, but legitimately worked). I warmed it up because for whatever reason it tasted better to me that way. I stopped doing the prune juice at 28 weeks, however, to see if my body could be regular with just the raisin bran (it could - yay!). I also drink a lot of smoothies or oatmeal with berries and flaxseed. Tried cutting down on carbs, cheese, and super sugary items. I bought Colace as a backup but haven't used it yet. I also bought the Stork "Laxative" tea on Amazon, it's a pregnancy brand which works well and tastes good. Just some ideas. Oh and walking and exercising in any helps. Walking and Peloton have both helped (walking generally works a little better, I've found). I've done a LOT, but I've been pooping every day since like week 10/11. Ah pregnancy... |
Anonymous
| I am the above poster. I also occasionally would do every-other-day with my prenatal with iron. I used a prenatal without iron on the days I didn't take the one with iron. But I only did that probably 6-7 days total. |
Anonymous
I am a bad patient and only take folic acid. Both of my kids survived by treacherous uterus without any major defects OP my dad has a neurologic condition and what helps him is eating huge quantities of vegetables like shredded carrots You can also try walking |
Anonymous
| Miralax and cut out the extra iron helped me so much. Good luck! |