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March 2015 Moms
emsillick
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Too much poop!?
emsillick
member
I'm slightly concerned that my 10 month old is pooping too much. He used to sleep 12-13 hours through the night no bother, and poop 1 or 2 times per day.
Ever since around Christmas time he will need to be changed in the night (I have to wake him up to change him around 11) and then he takes ages to fall back to sleep. He'll then have pooed again in the morning, and usually then 4-5 times throughout the day - even during his evening bath. I don't feed him during the night.
The stools are generally very solid and extremely smelly. He definitely strains to pass them but surely cannot be constipated because he passes them so regularly?
It's exhausting, but my main concern is that it's too many bowel movements, and totally different to what he was like before Christmas. He is otherwise happy and healthy, he sleeps well, has a great appetite and eats all kinds of food and has followed his growth percentile perfectly. He has loads of energy and is crawling, climbing and standing up on furniture... he's awesome.
His feeding routine is roughly like this:
Wake up, 250ml of formula.
Breakfast- porridge with cows milk and banana, water or juice in sippy cup, sometimes a few fingers of toast if still hungry.
Lunch- usually pasta with veggies and cheese. Yoghurt or fruit for dessert. Water in sippy cup.
Dinner- whatever I'm eating... Grilled fish with potato and veggies, or baked sweet potato. Yogurt or fruit for dessert.
Before bed- 250ml formula
I'm a vegetarian so he doesn't eat much meat. He feeds himself and is a very happy eater. We haven't particularly changed anything in his diet or his formula, or his general routine so I am baffled.
Any advice would be much appreciated. I have spoken to my health visitor about it but she seemed to think him pooping in the night was due to him just waking up and not being able to get back to sleep, that his bowels can't work when he's asleep. I know that isn't the case because I have gone to check on him the last three nights and can smell the nappy through his sleeping bag and have to wake him up to change him.
Ever since around Christmas time he will need to be changed in the night (I have to wake him up to change him around 11) and then he takes ages to fall back to sleep. He'll then have pooed again in the morning, and usually then 4-5 times throughout the day - even during his evening bath. I don't feed him during the night.
The stools are generally very solid and extremely smelly. He definitely strains to pass them but surely cannot be constipated because he passes them so regularly?
It's exhausting, but my main concern is that it's too many bowel movements, and totally different to what he was like before Christmas. He is otherwise happy and healthy, he sleeps well, has a great appetite and eats all kinds of food and has followed his growth percentile perfectly. He has loads of energy and is crawling, climbing and standing up on furniture... he's awesome.
His feeding routine is roughly like this:
Wake up, 250ml of formula.
Breakfast- porridge with cows milk and banana, water or juice in sippy cup, sometimes a few fingers of toast if still hungry.
Lunch- usually pasta with veggies and cheese. Yoghurt or fruit for dessert. Water in sippy cup.
Dinner- whatever I'm eating... Grilled fish with potato and veggies, or baked sweet potato. Yogurt or fruit for dessert.
Before bed- 250ml formula
I'm a vegetarian so he doesn't eat much meat. He feeds himself and is a very happy eater. We haven't particularly changed anything in his diet or his formula, or his general routine so I am baffled.
Any advice would be much appreciated. I have spoken to my health visitor about it but she seemed to think him pooping in the night was due to him just waking up and not being able to get back to sleep, that his bowels can't work when he's asleep. I know that isn't the case because I have gone to check on him the last three nights and can smell the nappy through his sleeping bag and have to wake him up to change him.
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