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Thanks for the confirmation on apple sauce.  Without telling him what I was doing I gave him a bowl tonight and down it went.  Secret revealed afterwards.  He said he thought it tasted a little weird but agreed that is our new way forward.  I did hand him his water bottle after and told him to drink it.  (It does need water but I wasn't totally sure I could use applesauce as the delivery.)

Call me lazy but I already do smoothies in the morning to throw in egg protein powder and making smoothies twice a day might make me lose my mind. There are the few days he doesn't drink it all the smoothie in the morning which makes me hesitate to dose it then.

On the positive side he has the diet that pediatricians say you want your kid to have.  It is true and pure dislike of soda, candy (lollipops, gummy bears), popsicles, gatorade - you name it.  I put prunes and a snack size candy bar in the lunch box - prunes get eaten but candy makes the return trip home.  That I handed him a bowl of applesauce at 7pm and he didn't question my motives should tell you about his eating habits.  He was actually happy to have it given to him!

Reality is that drinking milk 3x a day isn't BAD.  Something that should be encouraged plenty of people would say.  We tried ripple chocolate but we were "meh" about it.  He really isn't a big fan of chocolate. ("If I eat too much of it I feel like I want to barf".)   After about a half dozen non-dairy milks he found one he liked.  I was reallllly hoping he would have liked ripple more because it has protein unlike the others.  Dang it!  I was so excited to see a non-dairy milk with lots of protein and he burst my bubble of joy!

As for the Miralax haters....  I spend enough time on another snarky DCUM forum that I have a tougher skin than to listen to that noise.  You missed the part where I said we have been doing it a month and go back in June.  I left out all the history to focus on my QUESTION since I wasn't asking for a medical diagnosis or judgement.  [u]Rather my focus was how to deal with current treatment.[/u]  Sure, my first question to the GI doc will be about how the heck to get of Miralax (for a kid that already eats a few prunes every day??!).  We also need to see the nutritionist.  I left out the part about the ER visit and him having to do a colon cleanse.  I left out that we have been to TWO pediatric GI doctors to get TWO opinions.  We also had to go see a pediatric hematologist as a result of all this.  (On an iron supplement now and yes I know that is possibly constipating!)  The here and now and immediate is about getting my kid FEELING better which includes Miralax AND a dairy-free diet AND an iron supplement.  I am not just doing random torture and unsafe crap to my child but trying to get him slowly to a healthy point.  Rome wasn't built in a day and often the same is true for medical diagnosis and treatment.
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