Ready for this … NO GD the entire day!!!!!!!!! Not even revolving around her bowel movement.

A perfect repeat of Saturday on Sunday. That was two full days back to back without diapers or GD. Her behavior / mood was incredible!!!!!!! She’s been like a wonderful little girl with no worries It’s a priceless thing to see.

Monday we went on a day trip. Not knowing how serious this new transition was I put her in a diaper. Her behavior remained wonderful. No GD during the car ride there (two hours), while at our destination no GD she listened very well and throughly enjoyed herself in all activities. On the way home, extremely over tired and no BM her GD kicked up like crazy. However, the second the car pulled into the driveway I ran her into the house and put her on the potty (ours) and imediately she had a HUGE bm. All Gd behavior stopped and I haven’t seen it since.

Today she wore, for the entire day, her “big girl undies” and we con’t on throughout the day again ALL pee / bm’s on the potty and NO gd. Full attention to all activites, ate all meals, completely happy the entire day!!!!!!!!!!!

She even asked to NOT wear a diaper at bedtime. Not sure on what was the “right” thing to do. With my fingers crossed hoping this was a good compromise I put her in a pull up. Oh but please … please … have this be the end all.

These past couple days have been like a vacation. She’s enjoyed every minute of the past three days. I look forward to waking in the morning and hoping that she’ll continue with this. Hopefully she’ll realize now that she’s in control of herself and that GD will never again control her but rather she’ll be able to control it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But, Thank God, after two days of bowel movements (five in total) we seem to be back on track!!!! The GD had flared way way up and gotten to a level that brought us back to the begginning but once she moved ALL her bowel we had our little girl back WITHOUT any GD !!!!!!

Now we’re fine tuning all over again. GD has been present on and off for the past couple days but like I keep saying once the bowels are moved the GD dissappears until the next urge comes. She’s back on Miralax and we’re really monitoring her diet. Filling it with just the right amount of fiber and such in hopes of stopping the Miralax completely. The occupational therapist, case coordinator and nutrionist that have been working with us are all brain storming with my husband and I trying to figure out how we went from one extreme to the next so quickly.

The good news is that we’ve had some GD free days here since the last post and so there’s still hope that she’ll be able to continue on and enjoy her days uncontrolled by GD!!!

We’ve all been very sick ( the FLU ) here and yes in the beginning of her symptoms she did have some GD – soothing her. But on Thurs my mother took me to the Dr. and stayed in the waiting room with her and apparently she just W/O GD  turned to her and said “I go big poopy.” and sure enough when I came out she had one heck of a dirty diaper. But that was it no GD leading up to the event and none after. Not even at bed time / naps / car rides it’s no where to be found thank God. AND she’s gone in her diaper three more times just like – she’ll look at me and say “I goin poopies now.” and then that’s it !!!!!!!!!!

We haven’t even had to use Miralax all week. Mostly because we’ve been so sick that she hasn’t needed it but none the less it hasn’t been used. SO OMG !!!!!!!!!!!!  Even if this is all due to end (fingers crossed hoping not ever) it’s has been WONDERFUL to not see GD for an entire week not just a day A WEEK. It’s a mini GD vacation. Hopefully it’ll continue and her GD has run it’s course.

I really feel that if we hadn’t found her Tactile Sensory / bowel movement “fear” this wouldn’t be the post that it is. I think this is all thanks to a lot of hard work, trying things out and narrowing down a lot of things to get her to this point. Without all this she’d still be doing it none stop I’m sure.

Oh please God let this be the end for her !!!

Then like she’s been doing it all along she just pushed them out, stood up said “yeah, I go poopy. Let’s make them go bye, bye!!” And that was that – NO GD AT ALL – ALL DAY!!!!! Remember when she needs to move her bowels the GD is out of control and the more she has to move her bowels the worse the GD gets.

I was so speechless!!! I never thought this would be the milestone that would make me the happiest. At 24 months old she’s speaking 10 word sentence’s with words like - actually, counting correctly and singing her alphabet along with many other things. But the greatest accomplishment for her was doing this all by herself, without GD, without screaming in fear. She was just 100% normal about the whole bowel movement.

Has there been GD since - YES!! But you know what … This was a little peak at the light at the end of this dark tunnel. This shows that as far as she’s concerned this IS helping her to control / overcome this. She will overcome this and we can all see it now. Will it be soon (I pray) probably not but at least all this work on our end isn’t in vain.

Keeping my fingers crossed for many, many more days like this one!!!

Anyway she actually sat and watched the wiggles fully while sitting “like a big girl” the whole time. That’s right NO GD this am. We read books, ate some snack, drank our morning beverage’s and ate all of our breakfast. Again without any GD. This was a great morning!!! I needed to have another great day with her. Since the last two in a row that’s all I want for her now. She really enjoys herself i.e. eating, playing, LAUGHING, etc. when GD isn’t around.

At nap time she started up with the GD again. Not too bad but there. She had a playdate of which GD was present for for a little while then it stopped. We went out and again GD was on/off. She asked while we were out “mommy poopy potty” except there weren’t any bathrooms where we were so I told her we could at home. That was it she never asked again so I figured she’s trying to make conversation. However, after lunch/nap she woke with GD and same thing as last night. The GD showed up and slowly intensifeid. Then while trying to change her diaper that was only ‘wet’ she flipped out on me again. She was screaming, crying, kicking her feet and yelling no mommy all at the same time. But no BM. She kept presenting as though she had to go. So, finally I put her on her potty and almost immediately a HUGE BM. That was THREE large BM’s since yeaterday afternoon/evening. THREE!!! Afterwards she had a great bathtime, we read books, arts and crafts, she ate/drank, colored, you name I did it with her fully enjoying my mommy time without GD!!!

How great it is to be able to do the simplest things with your daughter. I’ll never take days like this for granted and will always cherish them.

I am so anxious to get to this G.I. Dr. to see what he/she has to say about her bowel movements because in light of her behavior over the past few days I’d say her BM’s play a big part in the GD for herself. Again I’m not looking to “cure” her but if this is really a cause for her worst days and maybe just being on something to regulate her BM’s then we’ll have lessened the bad days.

With this in the back of head the times when she does “it” don’t seem so bad.

The behavior was very infrequent today, she was easily distracted and even WAY over tired she hardly did “it” at all. We were able to play, shop, decorate and color. Most importantly she ate all three meals. Though she did wake doing “it” and con’t for a short time it did stop enough for her to enjoy the day.