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Baby poo (you have been warned!!)
Hi ya I started weaning Max about a month ago, and his poo has become more and more solid, first like a paste, thick paste and now when I take off his nappy, a little poo will be sitting there, like a little sausage that has been known to roll about in the nappy!
Is this normal? Is he constipated or do all babies start having more solid poo when they start eating solid food?
I give him mainly veggies and some fruit and usually water with his meals.
Is this normal? Is he constipated or do all babies start having more solid poo when they start eating solid food?
I give him mainly veggies and some fruit and usually water with his meals.
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caz x x
Caz x x
Also, just try & get more fluids in, if not in drinks add it to their dinner - I did this when I thought my LO wasn't having enough water, I added water to his jarred food so it went more like a soup.
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I do love this weaning stage tho, love watching him eating!
Basically do a large circle going around their bellybutton with the pads of your fingertips (starting on baby's right hand side) - always do it CLOCKWISE!! This follows the natural course of our intestines & bowel. Going anti-clockwise will bung them up!
Also if you do it during their bath time when they are in warm water that helps too.
I do it to my lo sometimes and a couple of times afterwards she has done a big poo. She isn't weaned yet though so her poos are mainly still "pasty" in texture.
This massage doesn't stop your baby being constipated but it can help them if they already are.
I tried rubbing his belly clockwise, like it says above, but it really made him giggle! Must have been tickling him xxx
We have been weaning for 3 weeks but even before that sometimes with just breast milk in his system he would strain like this but the poo would be soft and fine so maybe he just goes to the loo like this??? But he doesn't always as sometimes he has a dirty nappy without me having seen him go.
Have I made any sense???
I will definitely be trying some of the suggestions.
Max hadn't had a dirty nappy since yesterday morning (except a pellet or 2) so I gave him some mushed up prune with his lunch today. Then after his afternoon nap - YAY!!! I've never been so pleased to change a dirty nappy
Don't know if it was the prune or just a coincidence, but at least things are moving!