DD is almost 7 months and we started weaning at 6 months. We're doing mainly finger foods but foods that need a spoon like yoghurt and porridge get spoon fed. She's always been one to go for a few days between poos and do a massive one. However these poos have been looking quite...sticky for want of a better word, like she's not getting enough fluid?? She also quite often strains and nothing comes out, or the tiniest little amount will. Her little tummy gets a bit bloated (although not particularly hard) then goes down again after the poo. I give her a sippy cup with water but she's not that interested yet. She'll have a tiny bit from a bottle. I give her 'juicy' foods. We've tried pear, kiwi and prunes, sometimes have an effect, sometimes not! Also tried tummy massage although perhaps not as regularly as I could be... She's breastfed and one bottle of formula most days. I think she's still taking the same amount of milk. Any suggestions for helping her to poo a little easier?! Thanks :)
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Thanks Peppa that's the one I have :) she is getting used to it slowly! It's strange as I think she is getting enough water as although her pops are solid and formed they are still squishy, not as dry as they used to be...
So we had a bizarre incident this morning... Changing her nappy and noticed a poo just sticking out (sorry TMI! More coming! ;) ) and when this has happened before if I pushed her knees to her chest it helps her and she usually has a good old clear out. Today however she was crying like it hurt and kept on straightening her legs and squeezing them together as if she was trying to keep it in?! I think she does it a lot as I often find almost skid marks in her nappies where the poo has poked out then gone back in again!! I left her then nothing until next nappy change a couple of hours later and same thing happened except this time she did manage to get it out but she cried the whole time :( anyone have any ideas what that's about and how I can help her? I'm wondering if I should go back to just BF off a couple of days to see if that helps?? She loves food tho and shouts at me when I'm eating or drinking and she's not!! 
Hey Coco! With their sleeping and pooing issues, I think our DDs might be twins!! 
well she did quite a big poo in her nappy this afternoon and although she looked quite disgruntled by it she didn't cry. Maybe she just didn't like me fiddling around with her legs etc whilst she was trying to poo earlier! And maybe you're right Peppa , she might just be getting used to the more formed poos. I was thinking to myself they must be much harder to push out in a nappy than the squishy liquid ones!!
I've given dinner a miss this evening anyway just to give her little tummy a break, think I'm going to feed her lots of bland easily digestible things for the next few days and see how it goes. She did have banana this morning which apparently clogs them up though, whoops
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