Glycerine suppositories - what am I in for?

[thedahliharpa]

We are on day 6 of no poop. She has had nothing but pears, prunes, BM, prune juice, and apple juice since Sunday. I can barely get her to touch the watered down juice...So we will be off to the drug store for a new rectal thermometer and infant suppositories in case the thermometer does not work.

What am I in for? Mega turds? Liquid poopsplosion? How fast does this shit work? Is she going to be upset and uncomfortable? Poop all day long? What's gonna happpppppen?

I have never inserted anything into anyone's bum. I have a humorous amount of anxiety over this endeavor.

[musiclover]

Adam had MAJOR Constipation issues for quite awhile, we gave in and gave him suppositories once, it was not fun. He was so backed up that they just kept popping back out and did not work
I hope yours stay in and do that trick, I've heard that other probies have done it with pretty immediate poosplosion success.
Poor little thing.

[thedahliharpa]

Poor Adam and his poop problems.
I don't know if the suppository is overkill. I'm hoping the thermometer trick works.

[musiclover]

Jan 9, 2013 13:03:56 GMT -5 thedahliharpa said:

Poor Adam and his poop problems.
I don't know if the suppository is overkill. I'm hoping the thermometer trick works.

I hope it works too.
At 4, Adam is finally (knocks on wood) doing an awesome job pooping regularly and hardly ever holds it in anymore...thank you Miralax for helping my child feel better about pooping.
Let us know if the thermometer works.

[mamasaurus]

We haven't resorted to that, but ({) .

I hope it works. Buy a rain poncho just in case.

[Deleted]

They usually take a while to work (20-30 minutes) with R, so I don't know about a poopsplosion.

[chasbride07]

I used them with DS2 - I used the one that was liquid in a little squeeze bottle thing. I remember walking out of the nursery after I had done it telling my husband it should be about 15 minutes before it works and before I could get the sentence out DS filled his diaper. He pooped another couple of times that evening and was so much happier afterwards.

Good luck!

[Deleted]

We've used then twice. First time: a little hard poo then a BUNCH of liquidy poo- diaper was off and it happened right away. Second time: took about 5 minutes and just a normal turd.

[hass2001]

It's going to be poopsplosion everywhere. As soon as you give it, have a towel under her to catch everything. You will be amazed.

[Deleted]

Double up on the diapering.

[Dorothy Zbornak]

Oh Dahli. Every time I shove something up Butterbaby's butt, I think of the time you said that was very Euro. ;D

Good luck!

Sent from the future.

[eav2c]

Colin had liquid poops that were huge. He was instantly so happy. Only word of advice is change get somewhere that is easily cleanable. As I was changing his first 5lb poop diaper I changed him on my bed and in the process between removing dirty diaper and putting a clean one on he pooped all over my bed.

She will feel so much better when it's all said and done and IMHO only give half a suppository.

[eav2c]

Also, it happened in 30 minutes or less for C. He had 2-4 huge poops in 2 hours-ish (we've had to use enemas a few times). The worse part was having to give it to him, I think.

[thedahliharpa]

TMI- Stop reading now if you don't want details. I'm just a descriptive writer, o.k.?

I started with the thermometer which produced about a acorn size nugget. But I could see more in there. I did the suppository and held her bum closed for a minute or so as directed in Baby 411. She started grunting and out comes the suppository along with the poop but the freaking suppository pooped out and the poop retracted. The directions on the box said "retain for 15 minutes and use once a day". I figured I would try once more since we didn't get close to 15mins or the thing dissolving. After 5 minutes of retaining on try number 2 she started kicking and grunting and I wasn't going to force further retention. Finally it emerged, a 3 inch turd. I can tell there is more in there but I'm not inserting anything else up there. Surely there must be more than that after 6 days. We will continue with our prunes/pear/juice regime. Poor baby was not very happy with the ordeal.

At least something came out of this :-p Thanks for the tips everyone!

Oh and I totes took a photo of the turd and texted it to DH.

[Dorothy Zbornak]

I hope no one gets their hands on his phone with the intention of looking at baby pics.

Sounds like a good start! Here's to more poo! :beer:

Sent from the future.

[thedahliharpa]

I'll probably keep it in my phone for awhile.You never know when it could come in handy. I've used my placenta pic for shock and awe assaults before.

[Dorothy Zbornak]

Jan 9, 2013 15:38:27 GMT -5 thedahliharpa said:

I'll probably keep it in my phone for awhile.You never know when it could come in handy. I've used my placenta pic for shock and awe assaults before.

Hmmmm ... I think I'd be up for a placenta pic... maybe.

Sent from the future.

[eav2c]

I hope she feels better soon! Could you start her on a probiotic maybe? Ernie suggested this when C was severely constipated. I had him on Bio Gaia for about a month and a half and he's been off for about a week and a half and has been totally regular! I never thought I would be so happy for poop!

[Deleted]

Glad she's had some relief!! I sexing the probiotic suggestion- I have D on it now and she's much more regular

[Dorothy Zbornak]

Jan 9, 2013 15:50:53 GMT -5 ladybug said:

Glad she's had some relief!! I sexing the probiotic suggestion- I have D on it now and she's much more regular

CH!

Sent from the future.

[thedahliharpa]

Jan 9, 2013 15:50:53 GMT -5 ladybug said:

Glad she's had some relief!! I sexing the probiotic suggestion- I have D on it now and she's much more regular

EAV2c- I just ordered some culturelle kids. I gave it occasionally but am going to start doing it daily.

Ladybug- That was a funny autocorrect! What did you really type?

Dorothy- Any time! Any.Time.

[eav2c]

Oh!!! I have a question for you then! How much culturelle kids do you give? I was going to buy it but I was nervous about giving too much!!! I was thinking half a packet? Also how do you give it?

[charlielove]

Well I'm late to the party. I was chuckling at your poop description though. And the fact that you took a picture. And have a picture of your placenta. I don't even remember seeing my own placenta. But I'm down to see yours. We're cool like that.

[Deleted]

Jan 9, 2013 16:02:34 GMT -5 thedahliharpa said:

Jan 9, 2013 15:50:53 GMT -5 ladybug said:

Glad she's had some relief!! I sexing the probiotic suggestion- I have D on it now and she's much more regular

EAV2c- I just ordered some culturelle kids. I gave it occasionally but am going to start doing it daily.

Ladybug- That was a funny autocorrect! What did you really type?

Dorothy- Any time! Any.Time.

hahahaahha! I didn't even see that until I saw this!! I was trying to say "I SECOND the probiotic suggestion"! lol!!

[thedahliharpa]

EAV2C- Our pedi advised one full packet. I always do it a few days before immunizations because she had really bad tummy trouble after her 8week visit.

Charlie, I'd post it unless the masses would be offended. It's not connected to me or anything. The encapsulation person sent it to me. I was kind of shocked :-)

Ladybug- Too funny. I think that should become new board lingo.

Oh and we had a nice big squishy normal poop after she nursed. Yippe!

[hass2001]

Yay for squishy poops! LOL at Ladybug -doesn't that mean you type that word a lot (if you're on your phone

[Deleted]

Jan 9, 2013 18:51:13 GMT -5 hass2001 said:

Yay for squishy poops! LOL at Ladybug -doesn't that mean you type that word a lot (if you're on your phone

maaaaybe