3 year old keeps complaining her tummy hurts

[NeedACleverNN]

Every day. She keeps pointing to her tummy and saying it hurts.

A quick kiss and it goes away. Now it could be attention seeking I suppose but should I be concerned?

She goes to the toilet everyday and has no issues with constipation.

[Gileswithachainsaw]

Worms?

[NeedACleverNN]

Doesn't seem to be any sign of worms. She never complains her bottom hurts and up to two weeks ago she was in a nappy.

What other signs of worms could there be?

She points to the same place too. On the right side of her body.

[Gileswithachainsaw]

Guess that pretty much rules it out then.

Is she accidently sleeping on something? Squeezing her self its her favourite trousers which are too small?

[Missgraeme]

Maybe she did have a pain a when ago and now it's a habit to get a kiss?? Next time she has a scrape /scratch kiss that and see if she forgets about her tummy!

[NeedACleverNN]

I help her pick her clothes so there's nothing tight and no nothing sleep wise.

I'm leaning towards habit now. I have tried distracting and going to do something else but she will follow me around and keep saying it hurts until I kiss it

[Dutchcourage]

Have you or anyone close to her have tummy troubles?

My dd at the moment 3.5 has a bad back, a bad neck and doesn't feel well. Sits on the chair with a blanket looking sorry for herself.

They are actually all the things I have wrong with me!! She also has a baby in her tummy too. Just like me.

Can't even be ill on my own these days!

[NeedACleverNN]

Nope. No one. It started a few weeks ago too so it's not a suddenly new thing

[Joneseygirl77]

My 2.4 DD quite often will say her tummy hurts too. It's normally at the end of the day and often tends to coincide with her needing a poo or having wind! I think we've also got into a bit of a habit with it here. I figured DD had either overheard me or one of the older children at her nursery moaning about their tummy.

[Witchend]

Constipation.

Now you're going to say that she goes regularly and doesn't have any problems going.

One of mine was like that. But when she'd had tummy ached for a very long time (drama queen so I didn't react at first) and took her to the doctor he could feel she was majorly impacted. Take her to the doctor and see what they say.

[WhimsicalWinnifred]

If it helps my 4 yr old dd has started saying "my tummy always hurts" and "why does this only happen to me" but she never said it before she was sick 3 times in 4 weeks. She hasn't been sick since but always brings it up. I have no idea whether to take it seriously as she seems fine. Odd isn't it.