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6 1/2 month old..early waking due to poo!

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futurity · 22/08/2005 08:37

Any ideas on how I can get my son to poo in the day only!!? He never used to poo at night but recently is waking earlier and without fail there is a poo to greet me! This morning was 5.40 and I changed him and gave him a bit of water and he went back to sleep until 6.30 (I didn't!). It is difficult to pin point what has caused this changed..I have recently stopped the dreamfeed..he is having more solids now and I am moving across to formula from breastfeeding ..he is now just having the morning b/f...so could be any of those things!

Anyway...I have being reading up and seen suggestions about not giving any fruit apart from at breakfast time and to make sure he is having enough carbs both which I am doing and haven't made any difference!! Does anyone have any suggestions on food which I can give to encourage more regular pooing!!? (Vaguely remember prunes being mentioned?). I know this is probably just a phase but would welcome any advice as I am very shattered and very low about this.

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futurity · 22/08/2005 09:12

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highlander · 22/08/2005 10:59

DS got half an ice cube of pureed prune with his breakfast from 7 months until last week (11 months). He always has a poop after brekky and again after lunch.

Sometimes, if he's been up a lot at night and had lots of milk, we're greeted with a poop first thing. But very rarely.

I seem to remember some of my friends going through this, but it it quickly sorts itself out once your baby's gut adjusts to being on solids.

moondog · 22/08/2005 11:06

Futurity,I think you asking a bit much! You can't control what time a baby has a poo!

starlover · 22/08/2005 11:07

i remember someone else asking this and i think someone suggested that protein in the evenings could cause it (don't remember all the ins and outs and whys and wherefores)
but try and make sure that his last meal isn't protein based and see if that helps

Toothache · 22/08/2005 11:08

Futurity - my dd was exactly the same. One morning she pooed at 4.45am!!!

We were shattered. She wanted to get up and play and never went back to sleep (or fell asleep when we had to get up!!).

It eventually just got later and later... we did avoid giving her fruit later on in the day. That might help.

It will just be a phase though, a tiring one!!

Toothache · 22/08/2005 11:09

Starlover - I started a thread about this a few months back.

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futurity · 22/08/2005 11:12

He has been on solids since 4 months as he is a very big baby...but I think the introduction to meat etc just recently may play a part..I have just come back from tescos and bought some prunes so will give that a go!

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futurity · 22/08/2005 11:17

moondog: i know I can't control it..I am not daft...just very tired and thought i would ask for help.

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starlover · 22/08/2005 11:20

futurity be careful with the prunes!
i got some for linus when he was constipated. i blended them with a little bit of milk and baby rice and then froze it in ice cubes.
anyway, i gave him an entire ice cube one day and it was way too much... gave him bad diahorrea!
so would recommend an initial dose of maybe 2/3 teaspoons!

moondog · 22/08/2005 11:22

Soory futurity,didn't mean to sound terse,although I'm sure I did.

Kids full stop are bloody exhausting until about the age of 31/2 I find. Currently trying to stop my 14 month rip everything off my shelves-games,books,plants,cups and so on.
I'm fed up with it all. Just want some peace and quiet. Dh about to leave for Ankara,which means I'll be on my own here in the middle of nowhere for three days with two kids.

starlover · 22/08/2005 11:29

what you need is a playpen moondog!

either that or a nice long piece of rope!

moondog · 22/08/2005 11:31

I've a playpen at home in Wales,starlover!Not here in Turkey though! Suspect I will be doing a lot of driving-at least that way they're strapped in and under control.

starlover · 22/08/2005 11:34

well that's no good to you is it! do you have a garden?

you know those spiral stakes you can put in the ground and tie your dog to so it can run around but not escape.....

moondog · 22/08/2005 11:35

lol!No,I'm in a flat,albeit a nice big one with three balconies. It's not too bad-there are parks and we go swimming in the lake or in hotel pools!

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futurity · 22/08/2005 12:27

moondog...don't worry about it...I'm just knackered and sounds like you have your hands full as well!

Gave 2 teaspoons of prunes with yogurt at lunch so will see what this afternoon brings (need a smelly smilie here!)

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futurity · 23/08/2005 08:52

He does a big poo at that time and then about 3 other poos during the day. This morning was 6.30 so not too bad...the prunes definetely made more..err..quantity of poo so have mixed some with his weetabix this morning. I am sure now that all this is due to his main protein being at lunch time (trust my son to be different as normally they say that protein at tea time causes night/early morning poo!). Anyway..I shall see if prunes at breakfast help and then I will try moving protein to tea time.

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futurity · 23/08/2005 20:52

Woops...prunes made him poo during his lunchtime nap which he never does! Oh well...wonder what time he will wake tomorrow!

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jambot · 24/08/2005 07:28

My dd even did a morning poo before she went onto solids. I'm greeted by a horrible one nearly every morning. I'm lucky in that she doesn't seem to mind snoozing with that that lot on board most of the night. She's 5 and a half months. She might mind more when she gets older.

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futurity · 24/08/2005 11:17

No poo this morning and he woke at 7..horray! (although didn't get to sleep until 8 last night which might be why!)

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Yanka · 24/08/2005 15:23

DD is 4.5 months and we also have early morning poos almost every day. She grizzles and won't settle again so am eager to get this sorted. I make her drink water in the afternoons and sometimes she goes then, but most mornings we have 5am 'delivery'

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futurity · 12/09/2005 08:33

Well here I am a few weeks on and no real improvement. We did have joy for a while after introducing prunes for breakfast and encouraging him to do a poo before naps and bedtime but that has all fallen apart (he kicks his legs around and thinks it is all a big game) and we are back to 6am wakings with massive poo. I have stopped breastfeeding in the last few days so when he has woken early I have given him his milk from a beaker and then put him back to bed and he goes back to sleep for an hour...I tried just giving him water but he would just sing and shout for the next 45 mins until i fed him and then he would remain over-tired all morning. However, this morning he woke at 6 and he hadn't even done a poo! I gave him his milk without really thinking and then back to bed but i now realise that surely this will encourage the 6am waking if he gets his milk at this time...but if I don't give it to him then we have the singing for an hour and he wakes the rest of the house! SCREEEAAAAM! Any thoughts on whether I should give him his milk at this time or try the water thing? Any advice welcomed as I am shattered.

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piccolamamma · 15/09/2005 12:34

hi futurity, our 6 1/2 month doing pretty much same as yours:

  • no longer sleeping through the night 8 - 10 hours (boo hoo hoo)

  • pooing in the morning around 5.30- 6.30 am
    (and waking because of it, or to do it)
    because that was driving me mad I took her off some of the solids she'd been happily eating and now she wakes up even earlier for a feed cos shes hungry! this morning it was around 3am. so that didn't work. nice.
    apparently it gets better when they start moving around (i presume this means crawling/wriggling?)as well as tummies getting used to it.

  • i'm going to try just giving solids for breakfast and lunch and in the afternoon with just milk evening and night.

i'll let you know if it works and vice versa please if you get it sorted. havent been this tired since she was a newborn!!

fredd · 16/09/2005 08:35

I am watching this with interest as my dd is exaclty the same at the minute execpt she poo's at around 4.30-5am am wont go back to sleep....she has been doing this for around a month now, I always change her nappy in the dark (well as dark as poss!!) but she never re-settles, singing, noises eventually escalates into crying and wanting to get up.....i have been tempted to try and settle her again with a bottle of milk...but like you futurity i dont want her to start waking and expecitng milk!! have you found this worked for you? tia for ANY advice to help...i am soooo sleep deprived

piccolamamma · 16/09/2005 12:51

hi everyone - well we had a bit of a breakthrough last night. no wanting to get up for the day and no poo until 8am (and another one - enormous - around 11am)! my first 8 hours in bed in 3 weeks. hooray (not without an interruption though, baby woke up during the night but tink it was just habit because she didn't feed for more than 2 seconds before falling asleep again). yesterday i gave her just baby rice banana, apple and milk and no solids after 4pm. Hopefully it will last!!