When do BLW babies get solid poos?! Daily nappy explosions causing mayhem.

[PickledLily]

DD (9 months old) has been eating solids for a month or so now and although not much food goes in (a lot is spat out or gets placed at the side of her tray ), I was expecting her poos to get a bit more solid by now. Instead every poo results in a major leak. All the way up to her neck on one occasion (how?!).

How much food do they need to be taking in before we get nice neat little poos preferably tied in a ribbon and smelling of roses? She's still having 3 or 4 feeds during the day and a couple at night.

Btw - I swore blind before she was born that I would never end up chatting about poo and nappies. Shoot me now.

Have her poos always been runny loose? Or just since putting her on solids

Be careful what you wish for...I'd like to wave solid poos at people who wean early and say, 'This?! This is what you want to subject yourself to before you have to?! Really?!'

They'll come when she's taking in a fair amount, possibly with some constipation to begin with and some rather amusing facial expressions. And don't think solid poos are contained any better in a nappy either...

"And don't think solid poos are contained any better in a nappy either" - really? Oh cripes.

Yes she's always had loose poo. Except when she was on Gaviscon pre-weaning, when they where very tidy playdough affairs.

is it possible you could use gaviscon again

The Gaviscon was for silent reflux. I'm not sure i'd want to use it just to plug her up.

I've heard banana does the same trick but she doesn't like it. I guess I just have to wait until she starts swallowing a bit more food.

I second Elphaba! DD has had a weekend of constipation - spent all day yesterday straining, crying and pathetically whimpering and looking at me with "help me mummy" eyes. She eventually pushed out a perfectly cone-shaped lump, followed an hour later by a gush of liquid poo causing a poonami of such epic proportions that it required both her and me to have a complete change of clothes!!!

DS no longer has liquid poos. He's 20 months and eats loads of solids. He's eaten lots of solids since he started weaning and his poos have only recently become mostly solid. Even now he has wetter more leaky days though.

I third Elphaba, poor DS barely eats anything (judging by the amount I pick out his hair, clothes, highchair, floor) but his little face contorts when he does a poo nowadays with those same "help me mummy" eyes. Strangely he's also started pooing when I dont expect it....I sense the smell and I'm "when the hell did you do that". Prior to this he only ever poo'd when feeding. No poos are the same in this house at the moment

Yep, DD also poos when feeding, with a look of intense concentration on her face. Oh, and in the car on the way into town, usually when I'm in a hurry or have forgotten a spare change of clothes.

Ah yes Swivel - the stealth poo!

Ha ha stealth poo indeedy

DS is 19mo and has one cup of milk a day nOw at bedtime. His pops are about 90% solid but still loose if teething, or if something has disagreed with him.

I wanted to post though as multiple poonamis usually inform me to change to the next size up of nappy. Or vest, if TS squishing it all out the sides (eeeuueeewww).

Poos, not pops. But you knew.

Different nappies?

And this morning's one (including some of yesterday's lentils) was redolent of the long drop toilets of Glastonbury, on the Sunday. Perhaps I should feed him some rose petals?