FINALLY! after 7 days with no BM

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He finally went! I took him to his new ped today, btw i love this

office already and it was his first visit!! totally opened to the

natural approach on anything.

Anyway, so we saw the nurse practitioner (since this was a work in

appt, he see's the reg doc on the 27th for his 3 yr WBC) and she was

just soooo nice! She listened to everything i said, agreed with it

all, listened to my concerns with miralax, and even agreed that for

long term usage in cronically constipated children it wasn't the best

thing to use, specially when there where more natural ways to handle

it. She was very detailed, and wanted to know his whole history, and

took her time with both of us. we were there for about an hr talking,

well into her lunch hour i found out as we left, and she was just

thrilled to talk to alikeminded mom!

Anyway, back to the point,she felt his tummy and i mean really felt

it. She felt around every square inch of his tummy and took a good 10

mins to really feel around. She told me she felt no stool. I had felt

the same, but thought for sure i was missing something, but nope! no

masses, no obvious signs of poop. Basicaly the poop was soo soft in

there we couldnt' feel it. She then listened to his tummy, and said

his bowel sounds were perfect, he even passed alot of gas while

there, and she said that was an excellent sign that things where

moving.

She didnt' order an xray due to her not being able to palpate an

obvious mass in his tummy, she actually said " after all it is

exposing him to radiation, no matter how small we want to not rush to

an xray " I could have hugged her! She said to keep doing what i was

doing with his sorbitol and mag - cit. she then said " i want you to

try something. Get him so pedilyte and see if he will take that, it

may be that since he is drinking soo much plain water, that he may

have messed his balance up a bit of electrolytes and that could throw

off his pooping as well. " I was again amazed, a simple natural

answer !!

We then talk about a few more things, i couldnt' believe how much we

agreed on things! I havent' felt this good in years and my child had

still not pooped.

Well later this evening he started to complain about his tumm hurting

(not suprising, it was after all the 8th day since we'd seen a BM) so

he asked to sit on the potty. the first time he didnt' do anything so

i took him off after 30 mins (he wanted to sit that long) and went to

clean the kitchen. The only thing he'd done htat first tme was pass

alot of gas. Then about 30 mins later he asked to go again. So off to

the potty. and this time he pooped!!! He sat there for about 20 mins

and pooped!!! It was basically like lumpy pudding consistancy, which

explains why we couldn't feel any stool in the colon. But there were

definetly formed poop in there, cause not only could you hear it hit

the water in plops (sorry TMI) but you could see the formed pieces in

the potty once he was done. Poor baby had alot of gas in there, cause

between poops he'd pass gas like crazy.

He immediately felt better! I'm just soo happy about the fact that he

pooped!!! the potty is just an added bounus, cause i dont' care where

he poops as long as he does.

So, now it's back to the regular every day sorbitol and every other

day mag-citrate, and hopefully he will get back on the right pooping

track and go back ot pooping every 3 days or so. I just pray to GOD

we dont' have another week like this one! I tell you girls, i was

reallly worried.

Thanks for listening