She was constipated once a little while ago and it's left her scared to poo now. For about a day she'll wriggle and squirm and will sit on the loo but won't try and will get upset that it's going to hurt. Eventually she can't hold it in any longer and gets very upset because it's all suddenly very urgent, but when she actually gets on the loo she's fine and it doesn't hurt. We try to talk to her about this and remind her that it didn't hurt but it doesn't make any difference for the next time it happens.
She's never been a frequent poo-er, and would often go a few days without it being a problem when she actually got round to it, but now she's seriously poo phobic. Any ideas what we can do to help her?
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Children's health
DD1 (4), not actually constipated but holding it in because she thinks it's going to hurt.
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wem · 27/11/2012 20:39
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