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[quote=Anonymous]My ASD kid was similar. This is what we did:

1. Bribes - there has to be something. I took DS to the store, we bought an awesome toy and said he could open it after he pooped. We put it in the bathroom and he got to look at it as he sat there. Does that sound mean? I guess... but it worked. It cost us a lot of money and time! Maybe psychologists wouldn't agree but our kid learned to poop on the toilet.

2. Exercise -- help the bowel movement along by getting them active. Climbing up and down the slide and all that bending motion really helped!

3. Fruit -- all the time! Citrus really helped get things moving so that he felt the sensation of needing to go.

4. Miralax -- we were up to a full cap at one point! Ugh. I hated those days. There were days I kept him home from pre-k bc I was afraid he'd explode from all the fruit and miralax.

5. Enemas -- this was the real turning point for our DS. We had to give him three enemas over the period when he didn't go regularly. The last time, he said he never wanted to have that happen again. We both cried. He said that he would go on his own... He said he would eat veggies and go everyday...and from that point on, he did!

We all know how frustrating and exhausting this issue is for the entire family. We had so many days where we had to reschedule or work around our child's poop needs. It was such a tough time.

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