My 15 month old daughter really struggles to poo, she grunts and strains and sometimes screams out a bit. The poo is hard and sometimes one large egg, sometimes little pellets like rabbit droppings.
The confusing thing is she doesn't eat much solid food at all. She is proving very slow to wean and mostly sticks to milk (bf first thing and last thing, sometimes some bm during the day too, otherwise cow's milk in the day).
She drinks some water, qunite a lot of diluted juice some days too when we give it to her: she'll have a full plactic beaker of watery juice (approx 50/50).
Food quantities are (it varies lots but I think this is average):
Breakfast at 8.30 2 tbsp of baby porridge (made up with 3 tbsp whole milk) or half a piece of wholemeal bread, also a half a satsuma and maybe half a small pear or a couple of inches of banana.
Snack at 10ish (not every day ) half a baby biscuit or a bit of banana, cows milk
Lunch at 11.30: 3 prawns, a satsuma, a teasp of cream cheese. Maybe 3 chips or a soldier of wholemeal bread too.
Snack 2pm: fruit, cow's milk
Dinner 5pm: 1 scrambled egg, a soldier of wholemeal bread, a satsuma, half a pear, sometimes also 3 tbsp natural yoghurt.
BM at 5.45 then offered cow's milk at 6.30 before bed.
She's on the 99.6 centile, has always been on or above it, and is healthy and hapay and a pretty good sleeper so no other worries except the pooing.
She poos most days, sometimes 2-3 times a day, and misses maybe 1 or 2 days a week. Lots of wet nappies.
Any thoughts?
Ps I know the variety of food is bad- she has pretty much the same every day with a small amount of variation, but she absolutely refuses to try anything other than prawns, sausages, chips, bread, cream cheese, hummus, yoghurt and fruit. We try new things about twice a week and they're always refused. About once a month a new food is added but often a previous favourite is then dropped!
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KikiShack · 05/01/2015 12:27
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