sassy thankyou, that was a help, and am so :( for your Chloe, i do hope things start getting better for her (and you!). i actually do the type of scans you mentioned and see lots of kids with recurrent uti's and its such hard going. funnily enough though, until your post i had no idea that constipation could have that sort of impact. after reading your post though i have to say i'm glad we havent given N any of the suppositories they had prescribed yet. they just look far too big for such a small baby and seems to me i could end up doing some damage to him trying to insert one of those. i'm a bit wary of adding the movicol to ebm as its took some considerable effort to get him to accept milk from a bottle, and i'm aware that the movicol doesnt taste nice. i ended up ringing the gp (after N spat pretty much all the movicol out that i tried to give him), and he suggested going back to lactulose but doubling the dose until we get back to the consultant.
BB3, good luck for you DS and his op. we cant see any poo when he's constipated. he'll strain and then pump lots if he cant poo.
at lp, if you'd seen the nappy he left post-poo yesterday you'd think he'd popped!!
scheh, i've had quite a few come back abnormal, and they've repeated at 6 months, and for some reason these ones are normal. reminds me actually, i need to book for next month as i had one in jan that was abnormal. i know a fair few people that have had colposcopy and they have all come back fine. and thankyou for you comment, you made me smile :)
sorry you're feeling :( lp and hope you're better soon. and how's eli's head? N had managed to flip himself off the sofa the other day (right out of my arms too) and landed on all fours, stayed like that for a few seconds in shock, and when he twigged that he was on his front started screaming hysterically!! i did also knock his head on the bathroom door the other day, but he didnt even cry. i felt horrible though! agree MN needs a tired emoticon, and maybe also a poorly one, and a chocolate one.