!!WARNING!! This post is about poop.

So Cole has a poop problem. There is no nice way to say it so I will just get to the point. HE REFUSES TO POOP. Cole has had a sensitive stomach since birth, just days after he was born I started finding blood in his dirty diapers. We immediately took him in to his Dr. and were told to put him on a hypo-allergenic formula so his body didn't have to work as hard to digest his food. Well, lets just say the past year and a half since he has been off of formula has been a roller-coaster to say the least. We have fought with his diet on a daily basis to try and figure out what his stomach can handle. He has been on fat free diets (really fun for a one year old who wants to eat everything), he has been on high fiber diets (Benifiber, fiber bars, etc.). Well, needless to say nothing has worked so far. The problem is the poor kid poops about once a week and its pretty much something a full grown man shouldn't have coming out of his body. Well, this causes him so much pain that he now refuses to push his poop out, holding it for days and days.

So he was in so much pain last Saturday he literally wouldn't even walk, so off to the emergency room we went. Four hours and a huge mess later the Dr. was able to make him go with a "milk and molasses enema". (A torture you never want to see happen to anyone.) So we have now turned into horrible parents who tell our child "if you don't poop you will have to go back to the Dr." to try and convince our poor child to let it out. He has now been put on a daily laxative. The theory there being that maybe there isn't a problem with his diet, but maybe an actual problem with the amount of water his colon produces to naturally soften his stool. So here we go again! Another step (hopefully forward) in our journey to give our son a "regular" life.

The bad with the good!

The bad...

Ok, so I promise I will not bore you all with every little detail of this pregnancy. I am sure nobody cares to hear about every little pain, issue, or kick that me and the baby go through. However I had my first Dr. appointment last week and I just can't get over the torture they put us poor women through. I started off by lying and telling my Dr. that I have had an "exam" with-in the last year. Well, she totally called me on it and looked up my chart. Only I didn't think I was lying, I SWEAR I was there in July and had my yearly check-up. Well, she could tell that I was there in July but there was no record of an exam, so lets go ahead and do it again. So after the fun of being poked and prodded by my Dr. lets go ahead and drain your blood so we can check for every possible illness or issue there. But wait... before we let you go lets go ahead and inject you with a bit of swine flu so you don't really get it while you are pregnant and I know you want to go home with a dead arm.

The good...

On the up side she did do a little ultrasound so we got to leave with the memory of seeing the little blob on the screen and a little fluttering heart beat! This pregnancy has been different for me, I just haven't really wrapped my head around the thought that we are going to have another little baby around here. But seeing the heartbeat was kind of a kick in the butt for me. This is really happening.......holy smokes.......four kids......I'm like a grown up!