Baby poo like soil/sand

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She is 10 months old and for about 3 weeks now had had dry poos on and off. Sometimes they will be a hard ball, other times normal explosive type poo, yesterday though the poo was so strange, almost like soil/sand, very dry and crumbly.
I should add she doesn't seem bothered at all by this, I would have thought if she was constipated she would show signs of being in pain?

Dh thinks she is wheat intolerant. He doesn't really have any evidence for this...

She will have toast in the morning, a sandwhich either for lunch or dinner alongside fruit, broccoli etc. She has around 20oz of milk a day and is offered cups of water throughout the day too.
I don't think she is dehydrated as she has plenty of wet nappies. She also poos everyday they're just hard or dry now

Any advice ??

But she has plenty of fluid I think, lots of wet nappies

At the risk of suggesting the obvious - has she been eating sand? One of mine ate loads of sand once at nursery and did several sand poos afterwards!

No, no sand (not yet anyway I'm sure that will come lol)

Maybe just try cutting down on bread and see if that helps - I generally try and keep bread to one meal a day and mix up the carb sources a bit. You could swap the morning toast for porridge? Or the lunchtime sandwich for rice cakes or oatcakes, spread with cream cheese/houmous/nut butter so they're not just dry!

Yes I will stick to just toast in the morning, she likes to have food herself so is spitting out yogurts etc atm which is why I'm a little at a loss what to give her !

Will she be okay with rice cakes ? She only has two teeth still and I worry she can't break things down properly !

She has cmpa also so is dairy free atm, any ideas would be appreciated. I do really struggle with what to give her

Assume she's not on any medication? We had soily poos when baby was on liquid iron supplements

I really don't think rice cakes will help the situation tbh, plus they're pretty nutritional void, so fine as a play food, or to entertain them whilst shopping, etc, but not a good substitute for a healthy breakfast like porridge and fruit. Increasing soft fruit, veggies and liquids would be best. I'm not one for promoting premade baby foods, as mine mainly just ate home cooked foods, but my youngest would occasionally get bunged up, and the best thing for it was the Ella's Kitchen prunes pouches. You could let her hold the pouch and do it herself once she gets the hang of it?

Hello OP
If it resembles coffee grounds then I would take her along to the GP for a quick once-over.

I agree with this. If she doesn’t have a lot of teeth I’d stick with as much milk as possible and just basic food if she wants it like fruit/veg/porridge.

Yeah I am going to do this anyways as obviously it was quite strange poo and worried me

Everything in reading though saying 10 month old should be eating basically what we're eating now, so I worry just having basic foods isn't going to be enough for her

Would she be okay say having for dinner some sweet potatoe and vegetables then ?

I tried to give her yogurt this morning and she was crying and spit it out. She did eat some raspberries and blueberries though. It just feels like that isn't enough until 12 when she has her milk though ?

What are you reading that says this? The guidance is that under 1 should still be getting major calorie intake from milk, whilst increasingly experimenting with food.

But yes you can serve almost anything you are eating, with a few modifications (be careful about salt, sugar, honey etc - NHS has all the relevant guidelines https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/baby/weaning-and-feeding/babys-first-solid-foods/).

Baby-led weaning is very good for excouraging the experimentation side.

DS struggles with lactose, though I think he's starting to adjust now. His nappies went sandy/gritty when he had too much lactose - could she inadvertently have had cows milk in something without you knowing/realising?