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Here, we report three cases of infants whose mothers consumed dairy products during pregnancy, who developed a severely constipated pre- and postnatal bowel. The passage of meconium was significantly delayed with subsequent early-onset infant constipation that was intractable to conventional therapies but remitted when milk proteins were withheld, recurred when milk proteins were reintroduced, and resolved again when switched to an extensively hydrolyzed or amino acid-based infant formula. Based on this and other observations, it is believed that these infants must have initiated and\/or developed cow's milk protein allergy prenatally during fetal life. 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