Toddler poo.

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Sorry in advance.

Ds is 23 months and I think has done a solid, nuggety poo once or twice in his life.

Otherwise, they are soft, mushy, and HUGE. Exploding out the nappy enormous. Every morning when he wakes up, and sometimes we get another in the afternoon too.

How can I get solid, more adult like poo from him?

On an average day he would eat.

Cereal (Cheerios/muesli/weetabix)
Banana
Another piece of fruit (grapes, Apple, raisins)
Rice cake/breadstick
Sandwich with salad and ham/cheese
Whatever we have for dinner
Yoghurt

Drinks weak Orange squash

My twins are the same. It's disgusting but no end in sight here. Dtd is marginally better but not consistently.

No advice, but my 26mo DS is fairly similar to this so I'm going to lurk to see whether anyone has any useful advice for you!

In the meantime, you have my sympathies....

Do they have similar diets?

Toddler diareah?

Does the poo have undigested food in it?

Yes, similar diet for my DS. No undigested food that I've noticed. I was thinking if asking our lovely HV when she does out two year check next month.

It's not diarrhoea, it's not watery, quite the contrary, very thick and squidgy. Think peanut butter.

Occasionally get bits of un digested sweet corn or pepper skin which I thought was the norm.

Is it not just cause it's getting squashed in nappy?

Add in some eggs, they always make dd constipated. Boiled seems to be the worst.

There may be an element of nappy squashed ness, but the size is ridiculous and sometimes ive changed him as soon as he has gone, it's still peanut buttery.

Will try the eggs, he had an egg for lunch today so will see if there is a difference tomorrow.

Any other foods which constipate? He eats a lot of fibre and whole foods which is great but the poos are getting me down, especially the leaking. He is in size 6+ nappies to contain them!