Update on Maddy's constipation issue - a bit of an improvement

So sometime end of December 2017, when we're at our wits with Maddy's constipation issues, pedia recommended why don't we finally just remove Dutch Mill from her life. This yogurt drink, of which Maddy consumes in 4-5 tetrapaks in a day, is the only thing that we haven't really changed from her diet or lifestyle.

So after our Hong Kong trip, after trying and successfully getting her to drink Pediasure formula milk (more of as a midnight, pre-bedtime snack), we removed DM from the equation.

[Side note re the Pediasure, so it started out that we'd make a bit of a game out of drinking the milk. I made sure to involve her in the mixing of her own milk, and I'd drink milk together with her, which was my Diabetasol at that time. I needed to drink a glass before bedtime, so sakto that I could make my milk together with her. She got used to it that until now, or almost more than a month already, we'd be mixing milk every night before sleeping. She used to take only 1-2oz...last night, she drank a whopping 3oz followed by another 2oz! High five everyone!]

I removed DM simply by telling her than I couldn't give it to her anymore, because the doctor said that it wasn't good for her tummy and that it doesn't help her poop. I have no idea if she understood me. But I've always been a stickler for just coming clean and telling her the truth about things. SURPRINGLY [KNOCK 1000x on WOOD], she took like a champ. She didn't ask for it so much anymore, but readily accepted the Chuckie chocolate drink and other chocolate milk tetrapaks I offered in exchange. [Although now she seems to be fixated on Chuckie, but whatever right, it's milk. That's another problem for another time.]

So anyway, at the same time as giving her Chuckie, which she asks for 2-3x a day, and her Pediasure, we also started  giving her Lactulose again 2-3x a day, 5ml each time/1 teaspoon.

SO FAR, she's been pooping every 2-3 days. At first the pooping would be uncontrollable. She pooped in her diaper after so long of pooping only in the toilet [because of the suppositories we put in]. But now she's able to tell us beforehand that she needs to poop, and we take her to the toilet.

For both our house and in laws, we've been using this potty trainer below.

Doctor recommends that it needs to be a potty trainer where she can plant both of her feet down.

Let's hope she gets used to pooping and we can slowly cut down Lactulose.

Maddy's singular trait of being obsessive

Hanley and I have come to the conclusion that compared to other kids, Maddy has a tendency to fixate obsessively on things.

It started to be obvious with the iPad. Before we weaned her off it, she would be obsessed with the iPad, to the point that her behavior just got really ugly. Yet other kids on iPads or exposed to phones, YouTube or Netflix don't really have the same issues.

Then small other things like watching Barbie Mermaid on Netflix. It started out before as just a weekend thing, then she started wanting to watch it every day. Then recently she'd make a scene and throw a tantrum at 11pm asking to watch Barbie Mermaid, refusing to sleep!!! you know how I managed to put her to sleep that one night at 12midnight she was still crying? I had to carry her, sway her in the dark, with her sobbing, while I recounted THE ENTIRE MOVIE aka storytelling the whole movie until she fell asleep.

Then with her Dutch Milk also before, she refused to try other new drinks. We just weaned her off DM, so now she's on Chuckie chocolate milk, and she refuses again to try other drinks.

Nakakaloka. Obsessive kid. Hanley said seems to take after him, since he has a tendency to obsess as well, like over certain watch brands, material items. He's the type to buy six pairs of shoes from the same brand or model one after the other if he's really into it. Now it's shades and bike stuff.