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How do you get fiber into your 2 year old?
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DS has been having some bathroom issues, and he is also a picky eater. Two of the things he will almost always eat are cheese and applesauce, but I have had to cut back on those a lot.
I could give him miralax, but I thought if I could get him to eat stuff with more fiber...
Today at the grocery, I got some fiber one bars with 5g fiber, fig bars with 2g each, cereal bars with 4g, and a smoothie drink with 5g. I also got him some baby food pouches. (He is seriously lacking in the fruit and vegetable department, but they are so expensive. However, he will eat them up.) Can I cut the smoothie drink with some plain yogurt to cut down on the sugars?
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Re: How do you get fiber into your 2 year old?
My (almost) 2 year old has soft mushy poops at least once a day.
His diet lately is mostly bread, pasta and as much fruit as you offer him.
Melons (watermelon, honeydew, cantaloupe), grapes, bananas, pineapple, apple.
(He's going through the 'picky eater' phase)
He will eat any fruit offered, but those are what we buy most often.
We still peel the apple because his molars haven't come all the way in yet, so he can't adequately check the skin.
ETA: he has 3-5 cups of milk a day and water non-stop. He does not drink juice.
Oh, and he loves yogurt. He eats about 8 of the individual cups each week.
Otherwise I try to use whole wheat pasta and bread, my kids love beans and lots of fruits.
Also if ds is have pooping issues I give him a cup of apple juice or white grape juice. It usually does the trick.
The thing about yogurt is you can get ones such as Activia that have the extra either probiotics/fiber added. That's an easy way to "sneak" them in along with fruits. Yogurt also does have some good digestive aspects simply because of the cultures used.
The Fiber One bars are good, but really, having had a bound up kiddo (how I got one kid on each side of the bowel spectrum is BEYOND me), don't fear the miralax if he's already bound up a bit to the point you're concerned, some kids need time to what amounts to "grow into their bowels" and a trip to the ER for being bound up is the worst and incredibly painful!! Our Ped told us to go ahead and use a kid-size dose until things got "regular" again but not so much that it turned to diarrhea. Then continue for 30 days until she got used to the idea of soft stools because at some point it becomes fear because of how hard they need to work to get it out. Now when she notices things binding up she tells me so we can start until she gets going again but for a long time it was a challenge.