A bit constipated.

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Elsy was suffering some constipation last weekend. Normally she has 2-3 poops a day, but on Thursday she had none and Friday she had none so we fed her some prune juice Saturday night. She really liked it. She did not like the feeling an hour later when she started to pass a stool. I think her system was pretty gummed up with skipping oatmeal for a couple of days. After several minutes of crying she left a present in her diaper: a large stone. If I had to poop something like that I would have been in quite a bit of pain too. We figured the worse was over.

There was nothing more the next morning but I was not too worried. After breakfast, she insisted on being put down on the ground so I put her down and she immediately pulled herself upright and started lifting and jiggling one or the other leg, like she was trying to shake something out of her pants. She was not wearing pants. After a few minutes of that, she calmed down and I went to check her diaper. She had laid a few more stones! Man, she really was gummed up. At least it was not as painful as before. It was sad hearing her cry knowing that there was little that we could do to alleviate her pain.

At the end of the day she went five more times - to make up for lost time I guess - and now she is back to normal. No more skipping oatmeal!

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