Hi all,
I started DD on a little bit of solids at about 5 months (previously exclusively breastfed). She wasn't very interested in rice cereal, but loved pureed cooked pears, so I quickly moved onto this instead. I must admit I got a bit excited and tried her with lots of new things more quickly than all the advice suggests. She loved eating solids so much that I kept giving it to her. She's 6 1/2 months old now and I've been giving her three meals of solids per day (as well as breasfeeding) for about two weeks. But I have noticed that she is now taking less breast milk (ouch!) and more solids, but her poos have become harder and the other day she actually cried while doing a poo. So I think I've given her too much too soon.

I'm trying to cut it down by going back to single foods (pear or pumpkin), offering a bit less and offering the breast first. Her poos are still a bit too firm I think, and she seems grizzly and is not sleeping very well all of a sudden (waking every sleep cycle and needing help getting back to sleep, last two nights)

I've read some advice suggesting giving her a little bit of brown sugar in warm water as this can have a mild laxative effect.

I worry that she's uncomfortable and I really want to help her feel better. If my digestive system was giving me trouble I'd drink peppermint tea, but am not giving this to her because I can't find any info about this anywhere.

I'm really upset that I've caused her to feel this way and worried that now that we've gone too far we wont be able to go back.

Has anyone got any advice? Sorry for the rant, I'm stressing!