Poo changes when starting solids?

Question

I'm a ftm and a couple of weeks ago we started our daughter on purées. We started off with rice cereal for several days, then banana, and now we've just started on pumpkin. She's loved all of it so far, but I've noticed that the last couple of days her poo has started to change. It's gone from the normal breastfeeding runny poo to being a lot thicker. Today in particular she has only pooed very small amounts of much thicker poo (not solid or pellet like though like adult constipation looks..) three times. I'm not sure if this is normal or if it's constipation? When I did a bit of googling I realised that banana can cause constipation 🤦🏼‍♀️
Can anybody tell me if this is normal or if there's anything I can do to help her? She's been quite unsettled today and cries and arches away a lot when I'm trying to breastfeed her. I wonder if its constipation causing her pain...

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If she's pooped 3x in one day she's not constipated. Stool changes are totally normal when starting solids 😊

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Yes it's normal. It's a little sad seeing their poop change from breastfeeding diet only lol. 
A lot of baby snacks ie puffs are rice based and rice can bind them up. I agree that it doesn't sound like babybis constipated but if you are giving rice cereal and bananas it can happen.
And please do a bit of reading on rice cereal. It's not recommended to be given to babies anymore. It has high levels of arsenic in it, causes constipation and has bobby trio all value for your baby. Dr Sears has a really good post about it on his website.

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Or gas. Have you tried gas drops? Or gripe water?

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Banana can bind people up, yes. So can pumpkin. Bowel changes are always normal when changing the diet. You can try pedia-lax liquid suppositories (the box says 2y+ but I promise you can use them sooner, my ped recommended it for my son when he was just 6 weeks old) or prune juice.