Is this typical?

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My son has been on SCD since late October. He is still on stage one

eating organic meat patties, peeled and cooked golden delicious

apples and peaches, goat yogurt, one or maybe two ripe bananas, and

squash buttons made with egg whites and acorn squash. Here is the

problem - he will do really well for about a week with his bm's going

each day with them being from soft to formed without us having to

give him anything to get him to go. This is a huge improvement from

before SCD. But, then he will go for several days without having a

bm and we will end up having to give him magnesium citrate and

vitamin C in large doses to get him going again. We haven't changed

his diet, the poor kid eats pretty much the same thing every day. He

has now gone for several days without having a bm. It is so

frustrating that we can't seem to get him regulated long enough for

me to try to add in some new foods. Everytime I think he is on track

and I can maybe add something new, he does this and I don't want to

add anything until I get him going again. Is this a typical cycle

that people see at the beginning? I'm also struggling with what to

add in next. I know he needs more veggies, but getting him to eat

them is nearly impossible, and then finding some he will tolerate

adds another problem. He doesn't tolerate zucchini, butternut,

avocado, pumpkin. I bought some yellow squash, but I'm not sure how

to fix it in a way he might try it. I'm just getting frustrated

because I'm seeing so much improvement, and then we seem to take a

couple of steps backwards.

Debbie, mom to Carson 4 ASD, SCD 10/06