Dd3, aged 3 years, 8 months is terrified to poo. This has been going on now for about 18 months at least. She will use the toilet to wee, but given the choice will not poo at all. Movacol does absolutely nothing. When she needs to poo she goes to lie down on her front and holds her buttocks together until it goes away. The GP gives me suppositories which I have to put in which is the only thing that will result in the poo coming out. Then what follows is about 20 minutes of crying and screaming until she finally goes in a nappy. When she is going she looks terrified. I have tried endless things to reassure her - stories etc and will always help her and talk her through it when it's happening, saying it's normal etc.
I have taken her to the GP many, many times but they say there isn't anything they can do about it except prescribe movacol and suppositories and of course I do see that the problem is psychological anyway.
The GP said this problem is very common in her age group - is it though? I have started to worry because she is due to begin school this year. I have also started to note other things about her which cause me to wonder if she has some undiagnosed problem - ie she hates having her teeth cleaned or her hair brushed and she screams the house down unless she can leave with her dummy, blanket, bear and drink - which she has to hold all of. She also needs to be in control of everything and gets very stressed if she can't. Lately I have noticed she wanders about the house reciting scripts from television programmes - this concerns me! (my older dd with ASD did exactly this). I always thought dd3 was unlikely to be autistic as her first word was 'no', which she used properly and in context well before the age of 2.
Nursery were concerned about her language development last year but then over the summer holidays she progressed a lot and they are now happy with that. It was put down to the fact she has glue ear. When the HV tested her language it was found to be slightly above average.
I am not sure if she seems quite normal though. Any thoughts?
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perceptionreality · 04/01/2013 20:56
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