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Giving a 3year old laxatives? (prescribed by doc, I hasten to add!)

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nuttytrekkermum · 09/09/2012 15:30

My nearly 3year old will not poo anywhere but in his nappy, begs for a nappy hwne he needs to go. Because he has had contipation issues (hence the laxatives) we have been giving in to him but I now think that was the wrong thing to do. I have now (sort of) decided it would be the best idea to give him extra laxatives so he can't hold it in and have a couple of stay at home days to get him to use the potty for poos. I'm convinced if he goes once on the potty (and gets a gingerbread man - recommended by everyone I have spoken to!) it will click. He was late walking at 20 months because we didn't push him to walk, it took me almost forcing him to walk on his own after the nusrery "spoke" to me at his parents evening and he was running by the second day!
-deep breath- hands up who thinks I'm doing the wrong thing/has a better idea???

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TittyBojangles · 09/09/2012 22:21

Shouldn't you speak to your GP about giving 'extra' laxatives? Don't know whether that sounds like a good idea, and might backfire terribly (excuse the pun), and of course not necessarily be very pleasant for your DS. But I have no ideas to help either though I'm afraid, we are miles off considering potty training. Sorry.

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