Adding new foods

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Hello friends -

I'm having trouble finding the right balance in

determining what to feed my son. We've been SCD for

about five weeks. After two weeks we saw our first

completely normal stool; alongside

significant improvements in my son's behavior, social

awareness, and motor skills. We are on a

very basic diet of bananas, cooked pears and squash,

eggs, and protein.

However, he was severely constipated, going every four

of five days. We know it was hurting him

to finally go. Also, our doctor is recommending that

he be going normally each day if we would

like to begin chelation.

To try to get him to a more regular state, we've been

giving him small amounts of prune juice. We've

also been pushing in a little vitamin C, which has

been known to give him diarheah in the past. However,

now we see whole food in his stool, and the

consistency has reverted to more or less what it

looked

like before SCD. What's more, I'm getting a ton of

pressure to add to the variety of foods my son eats.

I'm kind of torn; our son doesn't have the ability to

tell us if he is feeling better or worse; the one

mechanism we could count on to give us an indicator as

to his gut health was his stools. I'm afraid

to add new foods to his diet; if we start on something

new that his gut disagrees with we may

not be able to notice the difference in his stool and

may find ourselves wondering if we've hit

another wall with him; or we're giving him enough

carbs so that he stops progressing. On the other hand,

I can't keep him on his current diet forever, or even

very long. Eventually his mother will start giving

him

new foods whether I am on board or not.

Any advice on getting from good constipated stools to

good frequent stools is greatly appreciated.

- brian

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