Originally Posted by
elephantmeg
I think they need to look into a miralax cleanse. I'll bet he is super duper constipated and his colon is way stretched out. DS went through this, we did miralax for a long while and now do colace
DS3 had poop issues until he was 6yo too. We started Miralax to slowly clean him out (I don't like doing drastic cleanouts but that's just me. Our ped said it was fine to stretch out the cleanout to a week). We also started a regular schedule of sitting on the potty. We were trying to establish a habit because he used to refuse to sit on the toilet. He would only poop in a diaper. We allow DS3 to have the iPad on the potty with him and we had a reward chart for sitting in the potty. We were religious about celebrating with a star EACH time he SAT on the potty. We were trying to get him in the habit of sitting, just sitting at first, 3 times per day because of the power struggles we had had before. Once in the morning, after school and befire bed. He started to be ok with sitting on the potty with the iPad (at first with his clothes on, gradually with his clothes off). The miralax softened and forced the poop out. He got so into his iPad games he just let it come out. And we continued to celebrate his achievements with rewards, songs and dancing and stars on his chart. It took 18months for him to regularly poop on the potty. But we started with a child who was terrified of pooping in the potty and terrified of the potty.
It it is so hard. Best of luck to your sister!
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