Constipation - It's not just for Adults anymore!


WARNING: This blog post may contain several bad puns.

Constipation can be a pain in the butt for anyone, but seems to be worse for a toddler. There’s something both sad and funny about seeing a toddler stand in the middle of the living room grunting, body tense with pressure and red faced trying to poop in their pants with no shame or embarrassment at all.

Paige has had issues for several months now and we have tried everything; Mineral oil, prune juice, peas, corn, fruit and carrots. That last one apparently can have the opposite affect so we were told to stay away from them.

In the end we had to resort to glycerin suppositories and probiotics crushed up in ice cream. I don’t know if it’s the medicine in the suppository or the act of pushing something in the escape hatch that causes the reaction but the suppositories certainly did the trick. For the first few days Paige was actually sleeping through the night again which means my wife and I were too. Well, we’re supposed to be able to. I still wake up several times a night to roll over only to start thinking about things I need to do the next day. Or to go to the washroom since I don’t wear a diaper...yet. Unfortunately I don’t think she had a ‘movement’ yesterday so last night she was awake at 12:30am and 3:30am.  

We were told that constipation is quite common so for those of you who have toddlers that haven’t experienced it yet, plan ahead to help their behind.

Huh, not as many puns as I had hoped. That’s disappointing.

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