LittleLulu

For the withholding – my daughter is 25 months and she has had chronic constipation issues since about 9 months of age. Hers are obviously unrelated to toilet training…
The thing I would say – we held off putting her on Miramax as long as we could and I regret it. We tried all the “natural” things first, and did the small amounts of Miralax, weaning etc etc. and my feeling at this point is that we waited too long and the fear of pooping just got worse and worse. She’s now needing ExLax or a suppository on a far too regular basis.
She’s on it now afor a while and whilst I don’t love that she needs it, the pain of watching her go through the really difficult poops after days of withholding (tears, screaming, she was terrified) was not worth not taking the Miralax. We don’t have many of those really bad days anymore but she’s definitely not past it yet and whilst we might be stuck with Miralax for a while, I think the merry-go-rounding of pulling her on and off before she was ready is part of what led us to being on it so long.
At this stage I have to make my peace with it until she’s truly ready to come off it.