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Anne Costigan

Anne Costigan

Registered paediatric nurse and childhood bowel health specialist, founder of Poo and the Loo (@pooandtheloo), and author with Penguin Books.

Aug 1, 2026

4:05
So if a parent is listening, I wonder, could it be constipation? So what is constipation?
4:10
So constipation is basically when a child isn't pooing enough.
4:13
They may have difficulty with pooing.
4:14
You might find the child's passing a big, huge bowl of the poo.
4:18
And a lot of parents would say if they're passing like elephant-sized food or food that a man who can pass, that could be particularly smelly.
4:25
Normally a child would quite often have food as well if they happen to eat for three days.
4:29
And that's kind of the typical sign most parents would recognize for constipation or else the little pebbly foods, the tiny, small, little dry rabbit droppings.

23 MINS LATER

27:39
So is there, does it change then for them? I just thought that's something somebody would wonder.

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