Update on 2.5 year old DD

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It's been around 3 months since I posted. This is where we are now. My now almost 2.5 year old DD was on and off Miralax for around 4-5 months when we found this forum and its possible side effects. Although we did not see her being affected by any of the side effects while she was on it, I never wanted to keep my daughter on any laxative for a longer period of time. I cut it cold turkey and started putting her on natural supplements(combination of Flaxoil & Natural Calm). There were some ups and downs here and there but overall she was doing ok until last October. Since October, she has been on Fruit Eze 2 tsps daily and Natural Calm 1/2 tsp and she was doing pretty good having BM's almost daily- a pretty good consistency (not hard at all) until mid December. Now for the past 1.5 months she has been having BM's sometimes every day or every other day or even 2 days but I could clearly say the quantity was just not enough. It is very obvious that she is not emptying her bowel completely. Though she does not complain of any stomach pain till now, I am concerned about the old stool backup. And today was yet another day of her not wanting to poop during her regular sit time in the potty after dinner. Whatever happened to fruiteze and Natural Calm! or could it just be her body has gotten used to both Fruiteze and Natural Calm that it is not even working anymore? But I have read posts here that kids were on for more than 6 months and it's been working pretty good. My daughter has been on it for around 3-4 months now.My husband wanted me to put her back on Miralax at least to clear the old backup stool and may be a very small dose as maintenance for couple weeks. I am not quite happy with this idea and I try to read through other posts for other clean out options. We had tried MoM in the past and we did not have success on it.Can someone tell me how effective Oxy Powder is for cleanout? And has anyone tried Fletcher's Laxative for kids? My friend suggested this to me this but I have not heard about it. Looks like it is senna based.Thanks,Sankari