Thankyou all for you suggestions, I am off to the supermarket to get some supplies Where would I find psyllium husks? Because I can mix them into her porridge, I can also add juice to her porridge, she used to have fruit and juice in with her porridge, but for quite a while she had gone to yogurt mixed in with it. She had also been eating pears for desert at dinner, but hadn't done so for a couple of days, so I must get her back into them again as well.
DD1 doesn't have a problem doing a poo on the toilet or potty, she actually has only done two in nappies for the past few months (one when she was sick and one partway through getting her nappy off). she's actually pretty proud of being able to do it, so i don't think she would be holding it in, and what got me yesterday was that she was sitting on the potty saying she was doing a poo, and then getting up and say oh no poo My bottom hurts
I will get the pear and prune juice into her today and also do some massage if we don't get movement happening soon we will get something a bit more substantial like the other suggestions above, because I guess it only gets worse... I would feel horrible if she ended up tearing
in coles the psyllium is in the health food section with grains like LSA etc and I think it was in about a 250g packet.
pity about the sultanas cause just a handful of those works a treat with my boys. corn is also another one that works in a similar manner to sultanas for the boys. and as others have said a nice warm circular massage works wonders
hope it sorts itself soon so you don't have to take on other measures
I was told to put about a dessert spoonful of brown sugar in some warm water to soften things a bit. I might try this as a last resort before going to the pharmacy.
Supermarkets and health food stores will have psyllium husk. Don't use too much, because it does kind of gel up the porridge a little. But you can add it to all sorts of stuff - if you bake any cakes or anything, you can substitute it for 10% of the flour to up the fibre content.
I was also going to say, but forgot - lay off the cheese until she's all sorted.
Anything yet??? Oh and just to clarify, when I asked if she was possibly holding it in.. I meant if she's constipated and it's hurting her bottom cos it's really hard or something, maybe she is holding it back (or tensing) cos it's hurting her. Anyway, hopefully she's sorted now.
Not yet, she had a really unsettled night last night and wanted the potty, but only did a wee, then this morning when i dropped her off at Daycare she wanted the toilet, did nothing, then wanted the other toilet so we tried that too and nothing, poor little sweet
I have her pear juice and water, along with quite a bit of pear last night, along with a heap of corn. I have prune juice and the psyllium husk, I could only get it in a 500gram pack, but Woolies had it in the Healthfood section, I mixed some pear juice into her porridge this morning and some psyllium husk, but she only ate a small amount of it. I spoke to her carers as well, and asked them to hold off on the banana, I didn't realise about the cheese, I can't remember what wa on the menu today either. but we will avoid it at home as much as we can until things get moving.
If we don't get anything substantial today I will add in the prune juice and I can also try the brown sugar
Sorry Ozziehoffy, I did misinterpret your post, you are right she may be holding it in because it is hurting, if it doesn't move soon we might need to look at a supository or something to soften what is there - if that is possible....?
Thankyou all for your suggestions , it is so much better to be able come here and use natural remedies before looking at a medical solution
Where would I find psyllium husks? Because I can mix them into her porridge, I can also add juice to her porridge, she used to have fruit and juice in with her porridge, but for quite a while she had gone to yogurt mixed in with it. She had also been eating pears for desert at dinner, but hadn't done so for a couple of days, so I must get her back into them again as well.
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- lay off the cheese until she's all sorted.
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