My daughter had her visit with the Pediatric G.I. specialist on Fri. According to the Dr. many children around her age (who are learning about the “potty”) hold in there bowel movements. She believe’s this is what my daughter is doing. Which is dead on to what the OT had said she felt was going on. That bowel movements are a sensory (tactile) issue. Of which she had already found her to have tactile stimulation – sensory issue’s anyway. So, all of this together makes perfect sense to us! In other words my daughter holds in her bowels movements because of either the feeling/sensation of bowel movements or fear of them.

So, the Dr. has prescribed that she takes a daily laxative to try and help move things along sort of speak. So she had started this laxative on Fri. and has had two teaspoons every day since. There has been VERY little GD these past couple days. A few seconds here and there after waking and that’s it. Then today she had a real flare up just prior to moving her bowels (TWICE) and then NOTHING!! NO GD for the remainder of the day/night. So, I really feel in my heart of hearts that this is strongly connected to her bowel movements.  We’ll see …

We’re still working with a behaviorist who has suggested that we redirect her to her bedroom when she begins the GD and also to stick to a tighter schedule so she knows what to except every day. That way there won’t be any surprise’s for her. Since we’ve started aggressively potty training her we run her to the bathroom instead of her bedroom. But 99% of the time she’ll tell us “mommy pee-pee potty”. The only time she won’t is when she has to move her bowels and that’s easy to figure out b/c there’s GD like crazy.  

It’s all trial and error …. if at the end of all this craziness nothing comes from it at least I can say  “I TRIED!!!!”