I had also earlier emailed Dr Pixie, and this is what she said:

Give her some stool softner, ie, duphalac ( lactulose ) 10 ml daily every morning for 3 days then alternate mornings for 2 times then stop. This is to relieve the hard stools stuck at the bottom and not obstruct the softer ones on top waiting to come through.

For me this would be the last resort; I think the prunes are “working”.

Last night, as desert, Caitlin has had some papayas. So let’s see how she goes today. Grandma has also bought some prunes yesterday, which she is likely to start getting Caitlin to chow down today; which she does like anyway (what food doesn’t she like??)

Think it was last year that Hot Mummee once had to help Caitlin using her finger- yeah, that bad, or hard. Apparently it just wouldn’t budge and Caitlin was in agony.

Hope that won’t ever have to repeat, for anyone…

Caitlin doesn’t take any supplements. So it is really just the usual solid food diet that is suspicious, or helpful. She does still take her milk formula 3-4 times a day, but all these are nothing out of the ordinary for the longest time… perhaps that in itself is the “problem”.

Also, I don’t recall her “holding back” her pee or poop just because, either because of being in the middle of play, or due to any bad experience. She is one that will actually drop almost anything (even during mealtime!) and declare that she needs to go; which, on the flipside, can be a hassle when we are out in restaurants that don’t ensure hygiene / cleanliness or their public loos.

Will come back here to report on how she is doing, and also get Hot Mummee to read these suggestions.

Another thing: are there any iron fortified foods in her diet? Iron supplements are notorious for hardening things up so as to speak

One other thing to think about is that it isn’t always the diet. If Caitlin has had a couple of bad experiences she may be holding off as long as possible, which dries out the stools which makes it more painful and so on…

In this case Parachoc or the like (liquid paraffin based stool sofetner can help). It doesn’t make them go, rather it softens up what is there to make it easier to pass.

Last resort are glycerin suppositories…

The things we have to do for our kids.

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Micah sometimes had very hard stool and sometimes soft ones, but he eats the same all the time. Only when he feels rather poorly and drinks milk as meal replacements that he actually gets loose stool.

Max eats everything and occasionally still has hard stool.

So I can’t tell…

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I take alot of yogurt actually and apples and prunes and papaya since constipation is a problem with me too.

But there are some days when water, enough oil and jumping exercises also does wonders.

Stay away from bananas, rice, apples/applesauce, toast, milk/dairy.

Raisins, maybe? Too much of any fruit gave us trouble with loose stools.

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