Pregnancy and Constipation - Doctor gave me advice to help constipation, though you ladies would like to know!

        I had an appointment a few days ago and we were talking about vitamins and she was telling me how good vitamin c is for us pregnant women and then she slipped me some much needed advice she said that you can't overdose on vitamin c but if I'm constipated I can get the gummy or chewable kind and munch on it and once my body gets enough in order to get rid of the extras it will give you the runs and help pregnancy and constipation. So hubby bought me a little jar and I began munching and low and behold within an hour duty called. So vitamin c can really help if your constipated and luckily it tastes pretty great.

        I've read that mega-dosing on vitamin C can cause miscarriages. It might have just been an issue during early pregnancy, and I'm sure you'd need to take a hell of a lot of it, but still, be careful. I'll go see if I can find where I read that. www.naturesquickconstipationcure.com and advice to help constipation

About 45% of women with confirmed pregnancies are successful when using vitamin c (ascorbic acid) with the purpose to end a pregnancy at home. Vitamin C can cause self induced miscarriage or abortion in the doses of 6000 to 10000mg. Excess vitamin C during the first month of pregnancy could suppress the production of progesterone which responsible for a miscarriage in women.

So its probably ok to take supplements if you're farther along, but be careful if you're in early pregnancy. And I want to mention that its silly when its said that you can't over dose on something, because you can overdose on ANYTHING. Even if your body flushes out what it doesn't use, it still has to digest it all, and that can be damaging to your kidneys, liver, etc.

        Vitamin C is generally safe in excess of the 100% found in most vitamins but if it were me I would do some more research before making it a daily thing: www.naturesquickconstipationcure.com

"Pregnancy and Breastfeeding"

        Vitamin C intake from food is generally considered safe during pregnancy. It is not clear if vitamin C supplementation in amounts exceeding Dietary Reference Intake recommendations is safe or beneficial during pregnancy. There are rare reports of scurvy due to tolerance or resistance in infants born to mothers taking extra vitamin C throughout the pregnancy. The data are too few to say if vitamin C supplementation alone or combined with other supplements is beneficial during pregnancy. Preterm birth may increase with vitamin C supplementation."

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        That's funny. I was constipated for months when I got pregnant and the only thing that finally helped me was eating mandarin oranges. I eat about 2 or 3 a day and you could set a watch by my bowel movements now.  [Read More]

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Diet to avoid constipation - Diet for 3 year old with constipation?

         I strongly encourage you to follow your pediatrician's advice and get your child back on the daily Restoralax. Forget the "unnatural" woo. This is a huge diet to avoid constipation problem for kids and it can cause real trauma and real medical issues. If his diet is as described he's probably constipated because he's withholding poo. This starts the vicious cycle. The straining that he's doing can also be him trying not to poo. Withholding also causes the poo it to sit in his colon too long and lose water. This it can cause bowel distension and they won't be able to feel when they have to go. Please don't withhold a totally safe medication from your child because it seems unnatural!

         My now 3.5 year old had this problem a year ago. Started withholding, got chronically constipated. We started Restoralax 1x a day at the full adult dose. We used it religiously until her stool was consistently soft. After being on it for a few weeks at full dose we cut back slowly. We probably used it off and on for a few months on advice of our ped. It fixed the diet to avoid constipation problem. She had a similar diet to your child, lots of fruit and veg and water. She was constipated because she was withholding poo and it was getting dehydrated. After being on Restoralax her problem was fixed because it didn't hurt to poo any more and she wasn't afraid to go. She is now "regular" on the same diet she was on before.

         I sincerely apologize. Seriously, I'm very sorry for implying that because I know how stressful this is. I thought that you were withholding a med in favour of a more natural solution. The stuff was like a miracle to us. The root of our problem wasn't diet though, it was poo withholding and the fear that went along with it. It doesn't matter how much fibre or water or fruit you eat, if you don't get that waste out of the colon it will 'dry out'. We also used the hilariously titled book "It hurts when I poop" for some behaviour modification along with the med. I wouldn't be worried about long term effects if the dr's ok with it, and I'd probably give the full adult dose until the poo was soft and regular. Like I said, once we got the poo soft, and she wasn't afraid any more, we were able to back off the med. Oh and yes, the price point on the name brand Restoralax is ridiculous. There is a "Shoppers" version that's about 3/4 the price.

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         It won't stop me from feeling terrible for the accusation though. Here's a synopsis of our program that we kind of developed with our ped. We would read that "poop" book several times a day. It's a bit weird to read a book like that but it's actually great and seemed to work wonders. (read the Amazon reviews) It's about a little boy who's afraid to poo because it hurts told mostly from the child's point of view. It talks about poop, what is is, and how it won't just go away. It talked about good and bad foods. It talked about how it is his responsibility to take care of getting rid of the poop. It was a bit beyond my 2.5 year old at the time but she basically understood, and loved that stupid book. It's probably much more appropriate for your little guy.

         There are behaviour modification programs that involve timed sitting on the potty etc, but we took another route that we thought would work with our kid. Instead of constantly bugging her about the potty we totally stopped all the talk about poop. We wouldn't mention it, we wouldn't ask her to try to go, or if she went. We dismantled the power struggle and put it into her hands. It was her responsibility to poop, it was our responsibility to make sure that her poo was soft (with both diet and the meds). From beginning of diet to avoid constipation problem to the end of it was probably about 3 months in total. When the withholding went away, the constipation went away. Hope that this is in some way helpful. [Read More]

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