More Breakfast

Parker and Elizabeth love breakfast. And specifically they love cereal. Parker used to have 4-5 bowls every day. He is down to 1 or 2 with a frozen waffle or piece of toast. We try to keep a variety of cereal on hand and they go through it very fast.

Miranda doesn't like cereal. Even when we get the sweet stuff, she has a few spoonfuls and then stops eating it. So in general, she doesn't eat much for breakfast and then has a big snack around 10ish.

Unfortunately, she has had some major regressions with her pooping to the point of literally have bonafide accidents in her underwear twice last Sunday. Since everything we've ever tried has not really worked to cure her of this problem, we are at a loss. Both Michael and I had discussion with her about it on Sunday; me basically yelling at her and making her feel like shit and Michael being firm, but more reasonable. She did tell us she doesn't like to make big poops which is why when she feels she has to go, she holds it in by squeezing her butt. We both focused on that and told her that most people got the bathroom every day (the whole family then discussed when and where we poop and how big it is). We told her that if she pooped every day when she felt it, her poops wouldn't be big and it wouldn't be scary. But since you can't make a kid poop on a daily basis if they really don't have to, I figured I needed to help her out. And knowing that laxatives, prune juice and all that nonsense don't help, the only thing left is lots and lots of food.

So that is what i've done the last three days. I've made huge breakfasts that she likes. Pancakes, waffles, cut up strawberries, toast, bacon, sausages, chocolate chips. Anything that she will eat and eat lots of. And for lunch at a park yesterday, I put everything in...sandwich, fruit, crackers, cheese, granola bar, veggies sticks, fruit leather, rice cakes.

And so far, it's worked. She pooped Monday and Tuesday on her own without incident.

As sad as it is that we are still dealing with this crap (pun intended), I have a small sense of hope that stuffing her full of food will do the trick.