Foods to get your bowels moving

[kimmi]

Pear are great, even better is pear juice. Proper cloudy pear juice, not he commercial 'clear' stuff. You can still buy real cloudy pear juice from the supermarkets though.

[Liviam]

How is her water intake MG? Maybe an increase in her fluids might help things along

[Mak]

Baked beans!

Agree with Liviam - so often water related rather than food.

[christy]

Or sometimes a food allergy can cause constipation as well... I would increase fruit as you've been trying and fibre... you can make smoothies with fruit and flaxseeds etc to do it xoxoxo good luck!

[Mother Goose]

Thanks Everyone.

Liv- I had that thought too and have increased her intake when she's home. She says she needs to poo but has to really strain to have success. Poor poppet has a hemmoriod I'm not so worried about that because I'm 99% sure that is from the 30 min she sits on the loo and all the straining. I just need to get her bowels working properly.

If we don't have any luck I'll have to look into allergies.

I had completely forgotten about kiwi fruit! Will source some tomorrow

[Miss K]

Blueberries work wonders and same with grapes!!!! And remember cheese can cause constipation on them too

[Rouge]

Warm water. Too much fibre and not enough water can do more damage than good. So make sure that if she's having water it's not *cold* but almost body temperature.