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DD holding back her bowels...any suggestions?
We saw the Dr Monday for her terrible case of the Flu. The Dr noticed that DDs tummy was a little distended and asked me about her bowel movements. DD has been constipated and had a bad go of it on Friday and has not used the potty for bm since. The dr has her on stool softeners but I need suggestions on how to get her to actually go bm. She is truly scared and I dont know what to do. I am trying to coax her with books and coaching but she gets panicy and wont sit to try. Dh thinks it is time to get tough and 'make' her go (yeah, good luck with that...) If she wasn't so sick I would soak her in the tub to relax her body and try after the bath...
Anyone go through this and have any sage (or regular) advise?
TIA!
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Re: DD holding back her bowels...any suggestions?
put prune juice in her juices, mix prunes baby food in her lunch. give her karo syrup -- everything that loosenes it up.
You don't want to have to have her get an enima -- continue the prune juice for a while so she loses her fear of the pain.
Give her grapes too as a treat -- that helps too.
Is she recently potty trained? Will she go in her diaper maybe?
My friend's dr suggested putting diapers back on her son when he was refusing to poop in the potty.
Otherwise - prunes, prune juice and more prunes. Also, I believe beets help a lot too.
Is she on Miralax?
DS pee trained before he poo trained. He would not poo on the potty for months and would instead go in the middle of the night in his diaper. He started having tummy issues because of it, because he was holding in his BM's all day.
His Ped said if they have a hard stool or it hurts them to go even one time, they will try not to go, so the key is to keep things moving and keep their BM's from being painful. Miralax helped DS a little, but prune juice worked better. Peaches also do the trick. I would not do prune juice and Miralax though.
You can't force her to go - if she is afraid and you make a huge issue of it, she will resist even more. We would have DS sit on the potty twice a day and set a timer for five minutes. At first I had to tell him "I'm going to set the timer - you only have to sit for five minutes and we will read a story", because he didn't even want to sit on the potty. He also got rewards for going poo on the potty. It took a couple of weeks of prune juice and bribery but now he goes every day.
Ditto on the prune juice, karo syrup.
Its common for kids to get constipated, you have make sure you keep her on a high fiber diet. Lots of fruit (with the skin), veggies, even popcorn is good.