Hard stools

So my baby is 5 months, she started solids (pureed food) a month ago. Ever since then she has had the hardest poops! She cries and struggles to get it out.

We tried eliminating the sweet potatoes and just stuck to fruits (prunes, pears, apples and bananas) mixed in with rice cereal. Just recently we changed the rice cereal to oatmeal and it still seems like she's in pain going! The doctor recommended different fruits and maybe a suppository if it gets too bad, but I'm getting ready to just cut foods out all together cuz she's hurting so bad!

She's breastfed, in good spirits, stomach is not hard or distended, no fever, and eating just fine(obvi lol).

Has anyone had this before?? What do I do?

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My baby started having hard stools too and he grunts and seems to be uncomfortable pooping.
I give him purees once a day and it's every other day.
It was also after having sweet potatoes so I'm not giving him that anymore (for now).
I pureed some apple for him and that helped him poop. My logic behind it is the recommendation of apple juice to help with constipation.
I don't mix with rice cereal though so maybe that's making it thicker? I just boil fruit with water and if it's still thick I add breastmilk.

Bananas made him very uncomfortable and hurt his stomach so I'm gonna reintroduce it later.

I know banana can cause constipation so we stopped doing that. I heard that all fruits that start with P can help with constipation so I'm giving my baby peach and pear. And today gave her 1oz prune juice mixed with 1oz water and that made her poop instantly!

I'm definitely gonna try this.

be careful though. After I gave it to her, I took off her diaper but kept it underneath her and started doing massage and bicycle with her legs. With the first push on her stomach she shot it at me lol. Thankfully she missed haha.

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