Constipation help please

[chloemegjess]

Hello. My DD who is nearly 11 months has been constipated for about a month now, which is why I am getting worried.

I did start a thread a week or so ago and a lot of people said to try stopping the weetabix (she would eat up to 2 whole ones for breakfast!!!). But I have tried that and no change. We have tried giving porridge or similar and the last few days she has just had fruit for breakfast.

She is in pain when she poos. I had to take her into a different room today as her sudden screaming was freaking out my mindee! I feel so sorry for her, she obviously doesn't know why she is in pain and I just feel so helpless.

She is pooing daily, but it hurts and is rock solid.

She is eating lots of fruit (Mango, peach, banana, pears, oranges, kiwi etc etc) Nothing is working. Have also tried orange juice and no luck.

I don't THINK it is diet related. She eats pretty healthy, just having a good balance of what we have and mostly home made, occasional jar but doesn't really like them.

What can I do? Should I be worried? If I take her to the doctor (who never takes me seriously anyway) will she be able to do anything?

It is also sometimes waking her up at night or from her naps.

Any ideas?

hiya , your poor wee one, its horrible. if all else fails go back to the doc and ask for glycserine suposetries.dont let this go on too long as it can make it all worse,every ones right though, up his fluid intake,hope hes better soon

MrsR - Had I told you I am pregnant (again!)?

I have tried uptaking her fluid intake, and but when a baby doesn't want to drink, there isn't an awful lot I can do?

I have started another thread on the bottle feeding about switching to cows milk and to be honest, that seems the best idea. So I am going to see if she will drink a cup of cows milk later on after I have been shopping and see what happends.

Oh congratulations chloe! It'll be nice having two close together - was always my wish but didn't happen that way but my dds are still close.

Personally, I would try the cows milk, I kept ds off it until he was 1 year exactly and he lapped it up. Turned into a milk monster whereas before only liked bf. With hindsight, I wish I'd given it to him a little bit earlier. It also made him bulk up as well.

We seemed to have a turned a corner at the moment with ds going every day so I think the Califig has helped to regulate him.

Thank you MrsR. Have started doing cows milk in a beaker and she is ok with it. If I put it warm in a bottle she will drink the lot but trying to go down the beaker route if I can to avoid the problem of switching later on, when we have bottles around for the new baby (although should breastfeed for a year so hopefully won't need bottles).

She seems to be ok with the beakers though. Doesn't drink as much in one go but still drinks quite a lot. She is still having some formula until this tin runs out and will still give a bottle at night.

Constipation still def there though. Kiwi seems to work best but the 2 packs I got from Asda yesterday are really hard and she didn't really like it. Hoping they will be ok by tomorrow or I will have to pop to tesco.

Thanks for all the advise everybody. I will probably be back here for some more advise if it doesn't clear up.

Haven't been back to the doc yet as I really hate going so will see what happens when she is fully off the formula. I hate formula anyway and wanted to BF till 1 year and go straight to cows milk. But after 2 months of morning sickness I gave in. DD loves it though