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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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