[bmarsicano]

my daughter is almost potty trained, she's 4. The one problem I've had is her bowel movement. When I first brought her home it was fine, but when I started potty training, she started withholding and when she did have a bowel movement it was the size of a tennis ball and hard. I've given her enimas, rubbed her back when she went, warm water baths. She always soiled her underpants a couple of times before she actually went potty. I've been giving her aloe vera juice and coromega, no change in that, but others are improving. She screams when she has a bowel movement and starts crying because it hurts to push it out. Her ped said to make sure she drinks, eats veges, etc. and she doesn't like to drink that much and forget about veges and fruits. She'll eat them for a while, then stop. I'm going to call her ped tomorrow and see if she can recommend a specialist, but for what?? My mother thinks there has to be something else wrong for it to keep coming out like that. I give her the pedialax strips once a day and that seems to make it less hard. Has anybody else gone through this and what could you recommend.

Thanks,