I'm trying to help a mum at present who actually wants to withhold solids from her  baby because of the experience she had with her firstborn.   This little girl was doing fine  on  milk alone but once solids introduced suffered  dreadful constipation.  She had poor muscle tone in her trunk and was late in sitting up etc.  Has been on laxatives ever since and is now 3.  I supported mum when everyone was telling her  best to wean so  little one would drink more  [no, no lumps in the milk!, we did joke about that]despite when baby   went off solids and back to  exclusive  bf the problem went away, and  through toddler nursing.  Firstborn is under the care of an eminent  children's hospital here in the UK, and they don't really now what is wrong.  We have sought the   opinion of  bf supportive docs who think it would be a bad idea to withhold  solids if baby is keen - is now 7 mths and has better muscle tone than his sister, even though  they seem to be
 causing constipation, but to go slowly and go with  baby led feeding and above all keep up the  BF.  Daughter has allergies so    they need to be even more careful.
Have any of you come across a  child  with problems like this little girl's and if so  how did they resolve.  The mum would like to  find out that she's not the only one with such a problem

Helen

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