how much banana is too much?

pesme · 2004-08-25T12:25:18+00:00

Hi, dd loves bananas. I have heard various mutterings that too much banana is a bad thing, makes them constipated etc.

fisil · 25/08/2004 13:27

DS has up to 3 a day. He always has one first thing in the morning. Then sometimes he also has one as his pudding for lunch and tea.

His poos are very regular and very squishy, and always have been!

alibo · 25/08/2004 14:33

I have steered clear of banana yet, as ds can be a bit on the "bunged" side!! What age is best to introduce them, and what is good to mix with them?

MadameButterfly · 25/08/2004 15:29

I have heard that you should only have 1 babana a day, Can't remember where now, but I tend to stick to that.

PicadillyCircus · 25/08/2004 16:47

When DS started having food he did get constipated with bananas - he had about 1.5 in a day and they bunged him up. That would have been at about 5 months I think.

I used to mash it with some milk - would have been breast milk at the time. Now he has banana as a somewhat messy finger food - and he doesn't have so many!

Original poster

pesme · 25/08/2004 17:39

Hi, thanks everyone. I heard the one a day thing and just wondered why. They bugger up clothes too as i discovered recently. The one expensive t shirt i bought (boden sale) is now a blackened mess. Back to the charity shops I think.

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Piffleoffagus · 25/08/2004 22:06

dd is 21 mths and masters 1 per day with relative ease in both gastro and colonic manner..
She prefers it first thing now...
Her poo is far from firm as yet...

libb · 25/08/2004 22:16

love babanas!

Tommy · 25/08/2004 22:53

they don't look good smeared on walls either

mummytojames · 25/08/2004 23:58

my ds 12 months (nearly) can have rangeing from one to three a day and as yet had no problems bananas are supposed to be high in fiber but its one of those to much fiber can make you constipated but pesme i wouldnt realy worry about it to much if you find she is getting constipated just back of them for a couple of days then go back to one a day then build up slowly her body will tell you how much is to much

mummytojames · 25/08/2004 23:59

my ds 12 months (nearly) can have rangeing from one to three a day and as yet had no problems bananas are supposed to be high in fiber but its one of those to much fiber can make you constipated but pesme i wouldnt realy worry about it to much if you find she is getting constipated just back of them for a couple of days then go back to one a day then build up slowly her body will tell you how much is to much