New to this wonderful group!!

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Hi all - I am so glad I found this group...who would have thought that something

like this

even existed. Thank goodness for all my research aka googling! I have a 28 month

old son

who has suffered from constipation pretty much since he was born. Even when he

was

exclusively breast feed he 13 days without having a BM...I know they can go

longer

without if they are exclusively breast feed but that is over the number of days

they say a

baby should go without. And it has just gotten worse since then. One of the

frustrating

things about all of this has been that I have told his ped(s) about his problem

and they

pretty much just brushed me off until now. His current ped is the one who got us

started

on Miralax. He was on it for a month and within a day or two was right back to

square

one. His doctor said I would have to do it for longer and give him more

(apparently I

wasn't giving him enough) the first go round. So we did it again for another

month. Then I

started reading that this bowel retraining could take any where from 6-12

months. I did

not feel comfortable with my 2 year old being on an adult medication and taking

more

than an adult takes at that. I took him off of it and have been doing more

research about

natural things I can give him. I bought some good quality aloe vera juice. He

has been

taking 4 ounces of it since Thursday. I have been giving him 2 tsps. of flax

oil, feeding him

the probiotic yogurt and dumping the culturelle tablets in his yogurt as well. I

am at a

loss. He is so crabby and has not gone to the bathroom since Thursday. Oh I

forgot to

mention the prune juice...it doesn't seem to help anymore at all.

Do you all have any suggestions about what has worked for your baby? What about

milk of

magnesia? How well does it work? How much are you supposed to give of it?

I know you all know this but this is soooo frustrating! I feel sorry for him but

he is making

the whole family miserable as well.

Thanks for reading my book. :-) Any advice/help is much appreciated.