Suggested food/meals for a constipated 10 month old?

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We're been largely BLW with DD as she really objects to being spoon fed, but just now she is terribly constipated and I need ideas as to what I can feed her for the next few days to help.

A quick google suggests that we have brought this somewhat upon ourselves as her typical day would be:
Breakfast - Porridge sweetened with mushed apple, followed by half a banana
Lunch - Half a slice of buttered bread/toast with some grated cheese on it, lump of cucumber, 1 nectarine (peeled)
Dinner - Pea & onion risotto (with cheese in)/finely chopped pasta mixed through bolognese sauce, strawberries, fromage frais (frozen as a lolly)
Then water with meals and unlimited breastfeeds day and night.

It appears that banana, dairy, toast, apple sauce and rice are the worst things for bunging them up. I feel really bad about this

She likes to eat food that I can put in a ramekin and give to her and she can slurp from the bowl - hence all the thick stuff like porridge, risotto, pasta sauce mush etc. She's really not into meat unless I shred it through rice/chopped up pasta, but I do worry about how much protein she is eating.

We are trying to get her to drink more water, and have given her a couple of dried apricots for snacks, but its lunch and dinner particularly I am a bit lost for ideas for.
Scanning the internet suggests that pasta, rice, white spuds and bread all increase constipation, but that brown varieties can irritate the gut. Erm, what carbs are good?? I need something I can hide meaty bits in ideally!

Thanks

cut back on the solids for a day or two and introduce more fluid. takes a while for the system to cope with an influx of solids.

Sweet potato is good for my DS..... Either mash (which perhaps you could hide some meaty bits in?) or roast some wedges. Seems to fill him up without bunging him up!! I find any sort of fruit tends to get things moving..... Strawberries, grapes maybe even prunes in your case? You could shred some pork through some minced dried apricots perhaps?? HTH xx

Hi

Im in same boat but we doing TW im going to have to cut down food for few days try flush his system, i assume i just reincrease his milk?

Prunes and apricot are in the list for shopping tomorrow

Thanks all. We've cut back the solids to just fruit & veg (& half a yorkshire pud!) today and encouraged lots of drinking. So far been rewarded by 2 small hard poo pellets and a whole load of unproductive straining. Will repeat tomorrow and hope for results!

Hope your DS feels better soon Figgy, yes I would just offer more milk if he seems hungry. Good luck!

Water with a tiny dash of orange juice (freshly squeezed), or a prune in breakfast usually does the trick for my DS

I have been stirring some prune juice into ds' morning ready brek which has helped him no end!

I was going to say prune juice too.

Could you leave the skin on the nectarine or give other fruit with skin on (I think I'm right in saying the skin is more fibre so will push things along)
We've always found blueberries good, would she eat an orange? If my DD eats whole orange segments that helps her. Mango is full of fibre too.

Whole wheat breads and pastas?

Yes to more fluids. Though it's so hard to make them drink more than they want isn't it!

Thanks everyone - am working through most of the ideas! Bought prunes and prune juice today: the prunes were rejected but we'll try those again tomorrow, or disguised, and the prune juice I will stir into tomorrows porridge.

I tried skin on nectarine and pear but it made her gag and she spat the skin out anyway so that didn't work sadly.

Had baked beans and a microscopic amount of wholemeal toast for lunch today, that's got to be some good fibre!

Still getting v.hard and distressingly painful poos but I expect it takes a few days for dietary changes to take effect.

How's your DS Figgy?

Hi op

Glad there's been some improvement.

I dropped back the food , increased milk again and we had definite improvement I've given him apricots in his porridge, he inhaled an ellas kitchen prune and raisin breakfast pouch (it was brown and evil smelling) and cut out protein for last few days. While we haven't had a poosplosion there have been proper poos. Going to reintroduce meat in next few days see how he goes.

I'm just worried about it happening again

I have been told not to give brown or whole meal bread to babies, should be white bread - I think it's too difficult for them to digest or something? (NCT weaning course)