I wondered if anyone had some advice please.
My baby is now just over 13 months and has been exclusively formula fed since birth. She is on 3 bottles a day from 11 months. At 11.5 months I started introducing cows milk at lunchtime. At 12.5 months I introduced cows milk in the morning. So she now just has 5 ounces of formula at bedtime. I thought I was introducing this slowly so it wouldn't cause a problem for her digestion.
However, it has seemed to cause her some digestive distress.
She is going to the toilet every two days and is pushing and pushing a solid poo out that is massive 🤦♀️ and seems to be really upsetting her. I asked the dr and she said to increase the fibre in her diet but she has loads of fibre and a good balanced diet. Typical day would be porridge with fruit, snack or raisins, vegetables and rice for lunch. Dinner would be meat and vegetables and pasta/lentils etc. She also eats fruit for snacks. I have tried to increase her diet with things like sweet potato and lentils because I know this would help but she still seems so uncomfortable and it makes her cry. I don't want to get to the point where she is too scared to go. The dr said at this stage we don't need a prescription. Did anyone else have this problem with constipation when changing from formula to cows milk? Have I done something wrong!
She drinks a lot of water as well. I really don't know what else I can do other than go back to formula but I obviously wanted to move away from that in the day time.