M has been prone to constipation right from the start of weaning! I hadn't heard about yoghurt being a problem, I tend to find that if he's eaten a lot of yoghurt (when he won't eat much else!), his BMs get more like those early bf BMs! But that aside, our usual trick is prunes (works for me too
), either neat, pureed with pear or pureed and mixed with his muesli and yoghurt. Apricots work well too, as do blueberries (although they do have a slightly disconcerting effect on the colour of his BMs!), other than that lots of liquids. And an outright ban on banana, which always bungs him up! Hope she's more comfortable soon...
Sounds like you've all been busy coming up with good plans for your LOs! Mama_C - I've no idea, how long's he sleeping at night nowadays? IMO if he's waking up well rested in the morning then you're probably ok as you are, even if BT's a little later than you'd like?
Well, talking of waking up well rested... We've had a couple of 1.5h nap days now and after the first he slept 8:10pm - 7:20am (had to wake), the first night > 10.5h in absolutely ages
And more importantly, he woke a new boy - well ok, not a new boy, but I'd forgotten just how sunny he could be, I fell in love all over again
So happy, singing and giggling away... well ok not for the whole morning, he's still 20mo and we have at least our fair share of power struggles, but I still could hardly believe the difference! Then I realised, for the last few months, he's had too short a night and been edgy all morning, then catching up on sleep during his nap and had too much energy to work out in the afternoon, ending up with a late BT (ie when he actually got to sleep) and another short night... The last couple of days he's been much happier in the morning but seemed to have less energy in the afternoon, so that he was actually tired at BT. We're certainly not there yet, and he did still take ages to get to sleep last night so we did have to wake him this morning, but he didn't EW as usual so still had more night-time sleep overall. And I'm 95% certain that was a teething issue rather than routine, so we'll stick it out a bit longer and see what happens... I'd also been waiting for a pre-8pm BT in order to move his WU to 7am, as I'm pretty sure that will encourage the earlier BTs and wouldn't result in a longer morning A than he did when he was EW-ing. So - tonight we finally had 7:50pm asleep
Yes I know this would still be late for some of you but I've been waiting for this for sooooooo long! Now I'm wondering if I really have the courage to wake him at 7am (if he's still asleep), but if he STTNs then he'll have had 11h+ so should be really well rested...
