sorry it's breakfast time but POO advice needed........

[eleanorsmum]

my dd (3) has had trouble with the aforemention since birth. we keep it soft by using dried apircots and a good balanced diet but she occasionally gets hard bullets.

Yesterday she did a new one on me. it was quite hard but not golf ball like and it was TWO colours! pale browny yellow on one side and dark brown on the other! sort of twisted together, never seen anything like it. quite spectacular as far as poo goes! do you think i should mention it to health visitor (coming this morning anyway!) or take her to docs?
ta

talk to HV and if she advises doc to go with that. i do know that we have alot of multicoloured poo here tho and i dpnt generally worry about it, as long as i can remember what they've eaten the day, or a few days before. i'd use HV as your first port of call, considering she's coming anyway

The pale bit was probably the apricots! I wouldn't worry TBH - remember that the digestive tract isn't as long in children as in adults so stuff goes through fairly quickly and may still be recogniseable. I remember sweetcorn coming out unchanged in my dc's poo!

The important thing to remember with dried fruit is that it needs to be chopped very small and chewed properly because it swells up on its way through. Also lots of water to drink is essential.

HTH