RE: Kids w/ Classic Autism, PDD-NOS & Speech Delays

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I gave my four-year-old three of the children's laxatives described in the first link and three of the fiber gummies described in the second link about half an hour before the therapist arrived this morning. He was able to poop for her twice during the two hours that she was here. What I gave him was the maximum dose, and I think that he is sometimes constipated.

I pretty much always give him the above before the therapist gets here in order to make him poop for her.

I tried getting the potty training started without fiber gummies or laxatives, and he would just hold it until the therapist left or he saw that I was busy. Once, he held it for about 48 hours.

Now that he's pooped a few times, he is doing it sometimes without laxatives or fiber gummies. I don't give him these things when he doesn't have a therapy appointment, and he sometimes does it for me now if I just ask him to go pee and poop.

I'm going to stop giving him the laxatives when he is potty trained and stops holding in his poops on purpose.

Oh..that reminds me of the time I took Magnesium supplements to try and pro-actively stave off cramp for a long bike race I was doing. Not so funny at the time for me, lucky they had lots of Portaloos there Thank you for the ideas.

We pulled the pin on the toilet ing project. After 10 days of totally committed effort from us he just wasn't getting it, so our programme supervisor said to back off. It's a massive relief actually, everyone is a lot happier now. We'll try again soon I suppose.

I tried with my younger son a few months ago, and he wasn't ready, so I waited a couple of months before trying it again.

With both my kids, I would try toileting for a while then put it off if they weren't making progress after several days.

It is very draining especially this time of year.

Its frustrating i know! Keep on it. Our PDD-NOS boy finally got it and is diaper free. Around 3 1/2 to 4yrs old is when it finally clicked after many MANY attempts. We got these dual seats at Lowes that have the kiddie seat that flips up into the lid when adults need to use it. He is obsessed with trains so we got this video kit called the Pottie Train and i believe it helped quite a bit. Our son now is completely autonomous with number 2, 1 and wiping him self! Don't give up.

We haven't started working on wiping or going on the big potty yet and he doesn't tell me when he needs to go, nevertheless potty training is going well. After a few days of having my son go around without pants on with a potty nearby and directing him to it when I think he needs to go and having him successfully go to the potty on his own a number of times - I tried putting pants on him last night with no diaper and having the potty nearby (all accidents have been when the potty was upstairs and he was downstairs) and now when he has to go he pulls his pants down himself, goes and tells me either "yuch!" if he's pooped or "good job!" if he's peed (or in the case of this morning he actually pulled the pee filled drawer out of the potty himself and stood next to me with it saying "here, here!"- I was checking emails and didn't know he'd gone. I'm lucky he didn't spill it. We've made it through our first 24+ hours without an accident or diaper.

Wow! That is wonderful!

My younger son does it in the potty about 50% of the time now, which is a big improvement.

He still benefits from me telling him to go potty several times a day, or telling him, "no book" or "no game" until you potty.

He is better at doing it in the potty during the morning, before he gets tired. He often has an accident right before bedtime or wets the bed.

I'm going out of town tomorrow to visit my parents and then my husband's mother. I'm starting to feel super-stressed. (It doesn't help that my husband and I keep arguing about how much stuff to bring for the kids.)

I'll miss chatting with you all if I don't have computer access for a week or so or if I do have it but there is no Internet.

Re: Tablet Devices Mentioned Earlier

Now, I have 2 broken tablet devices.

My kids loved the cheap touchscreen Android device that I got from ahappydeal.com; however, it stopped working after a day. When I plugged it in to recharge it, some sparks came out of the socket, and my husband said that he thought that the cord was substandard.

Well, I went to the store and got an Innotab by vtech that the kids really loved. However, when the battery started to get low, my older son got frustrated and whacked it on the floor several times, breaking it.

Now I wonder if he broke both devices.

One of the devices that I got from ahappydeal.com still works. It is the one without the touchscreen. (It has a keyboard instead, which I prefer.) I think that it works great as a color ebook reader, if you put an SD micro card in it to increase the storage. The Wi-Fi doesn't stay on for a long time, though, so it is not good for surfing the net.

I don't think that I will let my older son play with the device that still works.

Damn! Frustrating, but at least it wasnt too big an investment I guess?
Our ipad has been dropped a bit, but we have a cover on it and carpet or springy lino on the floor, so not broken yet *touch wood*.

Not too big of an investment, but not cheap, either. I wish that he would have at least waited until we got back from our long trip visiting relatives. We'll be gone about 10 days.

Yikes! Thanks for the warning.

Good luck.

We went to a Christmas party with friends yesterday (all have NT kids about the same age.) I was worried my son would act up but he was totally fine. He did not interact with the other kids at all, though. Though to be fair the other kids weren't really interacting with each other too much either...(they are all boys.) I guess that doesn't really happen till kids are a bit older.

Glad that it went well!

The trip is going okay so far. My parents have taken the kids out for a few hours. It's a relief for me, but my dad's memory seems to be slipping, and my mom tends to push the kids too hard and not notice when someone is starting to feel tired or anxious.

That's good. We will be staying with my parents for a bit once we arrive in the US, so we plan on taking full advantage of the free babysitting services!