Freaky Question...

Manderine oranges, or just plain oranges always do the trick for my kids. They also eat corn and salad which helps keep them pretty regular.
Also, give her water regularly...NOT juice or milk!

Probiotics are great. you can get them at the pharmacy. They make them for kids and they help regulate kids. It comes in a small packet that you can put them in juice, apple sauce ect, ect. they dissolve quick and have no taste. Good luck!

I have sufferred from constipation since I can remember. Multiple doctors have suggested apples (with skins... I slice them and dip them in peanutbutter)

Apples are NOT constipating. They are a part of the brat diet because they are high in fiber. Doctors perscribe high fiber for both types of Irritable Bowel Syndrom because fiber works to regulate dirreah AND constipation. They also include apples in the BRAT diet so that all the Bananas, Rice, and Toasted bread doesnt completely stop the patient up.

If you have a juicer simply wash the apples and put them in the juicer. Mix up the varieties for INCREDIBLE APPLEJUICE!

The thing that has worked better than ANYTHING EVER for me has been a juice called Plumsmart. I used to love prune juice as a child. Now, it makes me gag... the Plumsmart is milder in smell and flavor, but MUCH more effective for me. The label says 8oz a day for two weeks. I dilute it half and half... so I get more water as well

Unless there is some reason that the pediatrician recommends the vitamin w/ iron, you should probably switch to a non-iron vitamin. Our pediatrician had our kiddo on TriVySol w/o iron instead, and then I switched him to a chewable, OTC kids vitamin around 18 m because he didn't want to take the dropper of vitamin liquid any more.

Yogurt and dairy products actually tend not to help in cases like this (that doesn't mean you need to cut them out, but you may need to cut back). And Activia has actually gotten into a class action lawsuit because of their claims.

Lots of fruits & veggies, and preferably in the whole form (ie, oranges instead of orange juice). Whole wheat breads/tortillas/muffins, etc. Cut back on the dairy a bit if needed, especially cheese.

Lots of water or diluted juice (apple or pear juice is mildly laxative, but prune juice is better).

Distract her if needed, so that her body is allowed to do it on its own, instead of her pushing/straining. Talk to her while she's sitting on the pot, read a book, sing a song, whatever it takes.

Apples are constipating. Look it up people that is why they are in the BRAT diet for diarrhea.
Blueberries, raspberries, oranges, pears, avocados, prunes, plums, apricots... all dried fruit. Apple juice is different form apples it does not contain the pectin so that is good along with prune juice but the best is pear juice/nectar.
Childrens benefibre is great. Water water water.

I give my kids peanut butter on their pancakes with maple syrup...it sounds gross, but it's not!!! Works like a charm!!

Peaches are good. Prunes are good too. Even Prune juice.

Too much iron can hurt your daughter. did your pediatrician tell you to give her that?

Fussy eater? Not in my house. I don't do special meals. I'm not a short order cook. We all eat the same meal. You are making your life a living hell. My GF has two picky eaters - she makes different meals for each. She wastes a LOT of time doing this.

She's almost 3. She can help you make a menu for the week - let her help you pick out the food so she feels like she is making a decision too. You will find she is not so picky once you stop catering to her.

IF she has health problems - ciliac, diabetes, etc. okay - but you can adapt the whole family to a menu instead of just catering to her. As long as you let her have her way at meal time - she will refuse to try new things.

My kids LOVE artichokes, asparagus, spinach, broccoli, etc. You can make it fun! I let them dip artichokes in cream cheese or melted butter. I put cheese on top of broccoli - but they'll eat it either way.

This morning I made M&M pancakes for my boys - oooh my word!! LOVE!!! LOVE!! !LOVE!! IT!! they thought they were getting a treat!

Probiotics. They have types made especially for kids.

for my little ones, apples, apple juice and oranges do the trick every time!

Yogurt is a great way... try the mainstream organic Stoneyfield Farms, which also makes Yo Baby yogurt

My son has had an issue with constipation since I can remember. I don't know anything about the vitamin. We use the vitamin that our doctor prescribes for our son. If you are concerned with the vitamin I would talk to your doctor. Constipation I know about. Once we switched our son to solids if we didn't give him prunes every day it was an issue for us.

So this is what our doctor told us. Cut back on dairy - Cheeses, Milk, Yogurt, etc... That is hard since I feel it is the one way he is getting protein (also a very picky eater), but I guess it also creates some issues with vitamin absorption so we are trying to do better on this.

Then she told us that we need to use more of the 3 p's - Prunes, Peaches, and Pears. She actually said that Applesauce is not good for some reason, and Bananas are forbidden in our household since we could see a direct correlation between them and him getting stopped up. We give our son a dried prune every night before we brush his teeth, and sometimes one in the morning if it has been a few days. He loves them, and asks for it if we forget. We started off calling them candy, and he bought it for awhile. We also use prune juice or like someone else suggested plum smart about once a day. I give about 4oz juice, and then fill cup with water. There are times when he gets tired of the prune juice, and then we switch to a V8 fusion - Veggie and Fruit Juice. Not as good for the issue, but the doctor said it is okay.

We found this to be a battle we had to deal with once we started potty training because he wouldn't go poop on the potty since it hurt him so badly. It breaks my heart when we have forgotten our routine for a few days and he has a bad one, and just sits there and cries. However if we keep on it he does really good and I haven't had to use any extra medicines or anything to do it. I know some people have recommended miralax to me, and they use it on their kids but if I can do something more natural I am good.

Also another thing I have found is Motts has a cranberry applesauce that has fiber. We have to bring fruit cups for him to eat at school when they have bananas and he seems to like those as well and I feel like they also have added benefits for his issues.

dried prunes, fresh blueberries, fresh apples, fresh carrots, pears, papaya, cooked broccoli.
All kinds of fruits and veggies will make her regular and will help her to be a healthy eater.

Give her some prunes.
They're just dried plums and not nearly as gross as some people make them out to be.
Also, a little warm prune juice never fails.
Make sure she is getting plenty of liquids.

Yogurt...cheerios...anything high-fiber. Oh, and extra water!

What about switching her vitamins? At that age she can surely take chewable vitamins and there are tons of options available.

cling peaches from the can! works fast, and kids like the sweet taste. :-)

You might try a vitamin that does not constipate. There must be some out there, however, all I know is Shaklee for Kids. Their vitamins do not constipate and they have iron in them. You might try it and see if it works any better.

You might go to www.nutritionandhealthnow.com and see if you like it. If you don't like it you get your money back. Not a bad deal.

N.

mix a little prune juice in with her cereal.. that should do the trick.. also, is she getting enough liquid? as in water... young or old... water helps with constipation..

I would see if she would eat dried prunes or anything else high in fiber.

My daughter is 2 and she gets constipated a lot. So I try to just keep lots of fiber in her diet. Like dry cereal to snack on with lots of fiber, oatmeal, fiber one granola bars, yogurt covered raisins, lots of water to drink (my doctor told me lots of kids get constipated if they don't drink enough water) and I try to limit the binding foods like cheese, milk, bananas etc. but even with all that sometimes she still gets backed up. If I realize she hasn't gone in a few days i give her Miralax. My doctor told me it's totally safe to give to her and that I could even give it to her once a week if needed. All it is is a powder that you can pour into their juice or milk. They can't taste it and with in a day or so from that she poops. Works great.

peanuts and green bananas. Increase her fiber (more whole grains, fresh fruit and fresh veggies) Make sure she gets enough fluid and that she isn't holding it. Make sure she has lots of opportunities to go.

If she's resistant to going for some reason, check with your ped. about switching to a non-iron vitamin or doing a half dose for a little while until she's comfortable going.

Stop giving her the vitamins with the extra iron. That should help thing immensely! If you want to give her a multi-vitamin great but give her one with out the constipating iron. If you want to supplement her with iron then find a supplement with a bioavailble source of Iron.

http://www.google.com/search?q=bioavailable+iron&ie=u...

Make her whole wheat blueberry pancakes from scratch. Buy whole wheat flour and look up a recipe online. That and the blueberrys have good fiber. Otherwise, try prunes or high fiber cereal bars.

Orange juice... warm it up a little bit and it will zoom right through and make everything else exit out the back end.
LBC

Try Culturelle for kids. it comes in a powder that you mix into milk or food. Also you can cut out things like cheese and bananas that are very constipating. You can increase her intake of fiber as well - maybe with a high fiber cereal or oatmeal. if it gets real bad, talk to your doc about miralax. Good luck

Prunes, plums, papaya really, most fruit would be helpful and plenty of fluids.

HTH
T.

The doctor recommended Maltsupex for my son after I had to wean him off the breast early at 4 months and he became constipated on cows milk. We tried extra fruit and prune juice with no luck. The Maltsupex has a nice flavor. We just added it to every bottle. Worked very well. We occasionally needed to give it to him until he was around 3 or 4 when he would get out of his routine. I'm sure they have something similar for small kids.

Why don't you go to New Seasons and get some advise on vitamins from their staff.
Your vitamin is her problem not her own body.