Toddler Constipation - desperate for advice please

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Hi, new to the forum so I haven't seen previous posts. Can anybody recommended something for a 2 year old (not a great eater) who is very constipated? Tried movicol and dr prescribed suppositories which get pushed out immediately. Any advice would be appreciated please. Thanks in hope!

Thank you clinellwipe.
Delighted you got through it all and he's now fine x

I don’t know why my reply was hidden so I’ll just say I’d suggest you join the movicol mummies group on Facebook for advice from thousands of parents, who’ve been dealing with this for years and years.

Prune pouches are brilliant and also try chia jam, you can mix it through yogurts / cereal etc if she will eat those, and does the trick!!

Thank you FMLLLLL, that's a really good idea.

I keep meaning to find posts like this to share what helped us.
It was absolutely awful to watch our daughter in pain. Sometimes it took her an hour (even two) to pass stools and blood came out from the straining. Doctors prescribed laxatives but that didn’t work. It was also hard to get her to drink them.
Daily apple and strawberry pouches from Aldi or other shops helped, but not always. She is not good at eating proper diet. Sometimes sitting in a bubbly bath helped to relax her bum, but then she became very much against the idea of pooping in the bath, even though I washed her and the bath after. I would gently rub petroleum jelly around her bum if she let me, or just hold her hand and rub her back as she was leaning over my knee like a woman in labour. It was horrible.
Then I’ve read that full fat milk is not good so we changed her to skimmed milk and that did the trick! She even pooped in the potty few weeks later despite just starting potty training (we had to delay it because she wasn’t comfortable with the idea, very likely because of the constipation). Occasionally she gets hard stools again, but not very often.
I really hope that something will work for your situation. Maybe something else in her diet. Try to cut out some of the allergens. The doctors don’t do tests this young.

Mix the movicol into a normal adult plain water bottle. Get a blender and tell her you're going to be chefs for the day, buy a kiddie chef set, or make a little apron and use plastic kid knives. Give her the chopping board, strawberrys, grapes, whatever fruit she will eat and teach her how to make a smoothie!! Make it super funny and nothing at all related to her poops. Add the "magic water" previously prepared. And ta da. She should drink it 🤞 if this works you could make smoothies together every other day or every week to keep her topped up with movicol x

Edit to add, buy some ice lolly moulds and make some homemade ice lollies, again, using movicol prepared water and fruit 🤷🏻‍♀️ x

Movicol movicol movicol

The ultimate guide and advice is here
https://eric.org.uk/childrens-bowels/parents-guide-to-disimpaction/