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Ok, this post is sent to get help for me and my family, especially my 21 month old son. Just to let you know, we started a new eating journey this time last year. We are slowly making positive changes after a lifetime of bad eating. Please do not judge or condemn me for the decisions we made prior to our lifestyle change. My motto is, when you know better, you do better. I understand that many of the decisions I made were poor, but I am trying to make them right.

When I was pregnant with my son, they diagnosed me with gestational diabetes. I had never had that before, and they put me on glucophage to stablize my blood sugar. I also restricted my carbs, but sadly ate all SAD.

My son, has had either consitpation or loose stools since the moment he was born. I was unable to breast feed him, so we used commercial formula. He was such a "spitter" that they switched him to soy within the first few weeks of his life. He stayed constipated on soy formula. I mean VERY constipated. We had to do prune juice and/or suppositories almost weekly, it was a nightmare. I finally convinced my (former) Peditrician that there was a problem because I brought one of his rock hard stools into his office. We then switched to commercial milk formula.

His entire life he has bouts of loose stools, almost to the point of diarrhea. We follow a fairly traditonal diet, but if he veers off of it, he has horrible diapers. (Like at grandparents' houses!!, but that is another story)

I am curious as what you think about his health. Do you think that the diabetes medicine reaked havoc on his system? How much damage did the Soy formula cause? Is he the "perfect" candidate for GAPS?

So anxious to hear your thoughts. FYI...I have 2 older children who exhibit none of the same problems that my baby has. Sorry for the long post, just wanted to give you all the background details.

thanks much,

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