Anyone any good tips for me to deal with dds constipation?

[dee24]

Having an awful time with dd just now. She has suffered from constipation now and again in the past but usually a bottle of warm water/juice sorts it out. However she seems to have realised that warm fluid = a poo and refuses to drink it, smart little cookie she is! So now we have had a constipated little lady for over a week. For the last two days she has been in agony and waking at night in pain, the only way we managed to get her to go today was to put her on the toilet with the baby seat as the position stopped her holding it in

Just wondering if anyone has any tips, especially towards diet to help keep things moving? She's not eating very well or drinking much at the moment as she has a nasty chest infection as well but I have bought some syrup of figs to mix with her fruit (it smells vile!) when she's over the worst of it. Did phone the doctors to be completely dismissed as a paramoid mother so thought I'd ask for some tips from you guys. Off to bed just now but will look tomorrow for any comments.

Thank you x

Should have said, she is just over a year old.

depends a bit how old she is. stuff that works for my lot :
grapes
oranges
dried apricots
rasins (tho they tend to eat excessive amounts)
muesli bar
porridge.
weetabix (relief in the extreme)

ta for age update!
if giving grapes to 1yo, cut in half

Agree with gigglewitch especially weetabix - and pears. Puree the pear if you have to as texture can be strange. Ready brek if she doesn't like porridge? Plenty of fluid especially water doesn't have to be warm. Fresh apple juice always seems to affect my dd although for 1 year old might have to dilute with water. HTH

if she eats pasta, try the wholemeal or half-wholemeal sort. but extra fibre is counterproductive without lots of fluid... if she's rumbled the effect of warm drinks (my DH sometimes calls plaintively from the throne for a hot cup of tea!) then at least make sure she's drinking a lot of cold ones (frozen juice lollies even perhaps?)

She does love her weetabix thank god, maybe I should just give her that for breakfast, lunch and dinner! :D

It's so hard to get her to drink juice, have not tried apple though so may try her with that. I also just wish she would get some teeth, she only has two on the bottom which means she can't really chew things like raisens yet.

Ok def off to bed now!

nighty night

ps

my little cherubs always poo'd in a warm bath

Oh bugger, I forgot to get the apple juice while at the shops. Got pears, satsumas, wholemeal pasta (but will wait until she drinks more) though so will make sure she gets plenty of healthy snacks

Tried the syrup of figs mixed with her tub of fruit this morning and my god does it work! So now the ahem, backlog, seems clear I'll work on her diet. I'm not a huge fruit eater but I need to remember just because I'm not keen doesn't mean she won't be.

My dd has the same sort of problem.

Loads of fruit, including dried fruit - good for snacks.
Everything wholemeal - pasta, bread, brown rice, etc.
Reduce milk intake - I did this on the advice of my GP because my dd ended up with an anal fissure.
Water and juice - we use an open cup, my GP said 1-2 meals should have juice with them.

The warm bath also helped. We ended up medicating her too - so push to see someone if you have no joy.

Thanks, I'm going to make sure I give her a really good diet and make sure I get her to drink as much fluid as possible. Today I've had some success by letting her drink out of my bottle of water and by pretending to give dolly a drink, she seems to be more keen when she sees other doing the same.
She only has some milk with her breakfast and at bedtime so wouldn't think that would be a problem. Do you think she would be able to eat dried fruit with her lack of teeth lol! Would she still get the benefit from just having a little chew, and also what ones are best for babies? Can you tell I don't ever buy it

My dd only has two teeth and eats raisins, dried pineapple, apple, etc. I also buy the fruit bars that Organix do that are 100% dried fruit. Just for variety really, nothing wrong with fresh fruit.

I have seen those little bars, I'll buy some of those and see how she gets on. My nephew has tried to feed her raisons and she didn't like them much!