Bowels at 9/40

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Advice please... I had hideous pain list week that was cleared not to be bump and was diagnosed as constipation. I've been put on lactulose but its now coming out of me like hot lava!!! My bowels seem truly screwed since about 4 weeks. No midwife apt. for 3 weeks. I'm trying to eat healthily but all I want to eat due to sickness is carbs and some fruit. Any advice. Normally my bowels are lovely. Do anyone know something I can do to sort it out? Nothing obviously helps.

Mine were terrible at 9 weeks too! I'm 12+ now and they've improved. I ate dried fruit, glass of oj a day, lots of water to soften it up! I also took Senna once because it was so bad and I couldn't function. I've seen on here that midwives have advised against the use of Senna but mine said it was ok. It really helped as well and only needed the one dose which I took before bed one night x

How about 4-5 dates every day?

Prunes are also good for this

Prunes are really good. I also eat sultanas every day and strawberries, all really help. It's a joy of pregnancy I'm afraid, I believe it's the extra progesterone that our body produces.

Am 36+4 now and the sultanas and strawberries are what keep me from being constipated, before 32 weeks I had to have prunes every night before bed.

Mine have been HORRENDOUS all the way through - I'm now 26 weeks. I've never been constipated before, ever. I've got Fybogel and been taking it religiously twice a day, and that seems to keep it bearable. Prune juice shifts constipation pretty well too, but I found it also made the cure as bad as the problem sometimes.

I've got terrible reflux as well now, so I'm basically just getting used to the idea that pregnancy is 9 months of gutwrong!!

Thank you so much. Its great to know it might get better! Prunes it is. Gulp!!!

Stewed prunes and porridge worked wonders for me - I also had prune juice, as it was quicker, but found that the juice had too much sugar and I'm a low-GI person by necessity. It does tend to get better in the second trimester, if that helps! :)

I'm 24 weeks and have fluctuated between constipation and diarrhea the entire pregnancy :(
I'm told it's pretty usual for bowels to be all over the place unfortunately.

I truely sympathise. I suggest going to doctor and asking for Movicol. It has saved me in 3 pregnancies now. I take half a sachet a day and it keeps things moving regularly. So so much better than lactolose.
Diet was never enough for me. I always needed a little extra help from Movicol.