DD's Behaviour, Please Advice

[sammythemummy]

Ive been struggling with dd's (3) behaviour for the last 4 weeks, she's always been a bit hyper and generally hard to contain, but nothing like wat she is now. Shes very hard headed (everything's no, even things she likes), shes whiny, cries a lot (this is a child who hardly used to cry before unless she hurt herself), needy and aggressive.

At fist I thought it might be illness, a phase but 4 weeks on Im getting reall worried. So iv been picking my brain at what has happened to cause her to act this way, and I have realised that she has ben struggling with pooping around the same time as the behaviour started. She holds her poo for days, walks funny and holds her backside in discomfort, when she finally goes its cuz she physically cannot hold it in anymore.

Could this be the cause of her sudden change?

Im really struggling and to top it off Im 23 weeks pg and finding it all hard

Im going to blame the stress on my poor spelling

Yes I think the constipation could definitely be part of it. Dd struggles with this and I think that whenever she is uncomfortable or unwell her behaviour takes a massive nose dive. I would start using lactulose to help her with going to the loo.

Thanks cansu I have given her laculose twice now and it worked the same day, but surely I can't rely on this all the time?

Lactulose is very mild and there isn't a problem to give it every day. We give my daughter one spoon a day to keep her 'ticking over' and occasionally just up the dose when she needs a bit more and this seems to work. All the health professionals that we see (paediatrician, gp, dietician etc) know this is what we do and have all said it is fine.

yes...it is the constipation that is troubling her. I saw the same with my dd. You need to take her to gp and give her movicol to ease her poo out. You can also try 400 mg Mg citrate or oxypowder.