-- is he withholding and therefore constipated? if so, treat the constipation.
This was my son. What ultimately worked (we tried SO MANY THINGS... won't go into that detail or this would be a novel) but what ultimately worked was our pediatrician (God bless her
) prescribing a 45 day course of laxatives (PEG). I was really skeptical because I thought that would create dependence, but I was desperate.
Sure enough, it worked. My theory is that while being on the laxatives (and pooing regularly) his brain/body finally learned what regular BM's and a NON-stuffed bowel actually is supposed to feel like.
I am SO HAPPY. (OMGOSH). The first 7 1/2 years of this were torture.
