Poor Constipated Baby

Okie.. we really have to take this constipation problem more seriously. Since her last episode of hard poo poo on Monday, her next poo was 3 days later on Thurs, still a bit hard but not as bad as needing the enema. But as I counted, she should be poo-ing on Sunday following her 3 days routine and mommy was super stressed out.

Between trying to feed her porridge, fruits and milk, I had to put her in the potty every now and then. That sunday morning, Ivan swore he saw her trying to push while on the potty but nothing happened. By afternoon, when I tried again, she gave a little cry and only wee wee in the potty. Throughout the afternoon, she did let out a weird short cry every now and then when she sat down to play. By evening around 5pm, we decided to give it a last shot.

This time she cried again and I just have to see it. I lifted her up and took a peek between her butt cheeks. Clearly there was something there. I showed to Ivan, yup, something hard is stuck down there. By this time Valerie continued to cry. We, helpless parents, simply didn't know what to do. We panicked, between seeing her cry, not able to help her to get anything out and knowing we gave all our enemas to the nanny (stupid us).

So, having no choice, I dialled nanny's number. I usually try not to disturb her on weekends but this was clearly an emergency. Fortunately she was around and asked us to come over. Quickly we drove over and in about 10 mins time we reached her home. Nanny took Valerie in and put her on the potty. Within seconds, she started crying again, trying to push. Seeing the hard poo still stuck, nanny used the enema on her.

Then the initial hard poo came out, followed by the softer stool. As she was pushing, Valerie's face turned all red. Crying and red and pushing real hard. Ivan and myself just stared speechless. By the end of the episode, there was also a little blood, probably from the tear on her anus. Poor little baby.

Nanny then wrapped her up and fed her lots of water. For the first time I didn't see Valerie resisting water, I bet she was just too tired to even fight back. Haha... After that we took her home, she fell asleep on the way. When we reached, Valerie continued sleeping, clearly exhausted. We took a nap as well.

We woke up 2 hours later, still traumatised by the experience. Sometimes I wonder if the baby was more traumatised or the parents. That night, you could see mommy desperately feeding her lots and lots of water and making sure she had some banana puree!