toiletting regression?

[Guest guest]

Hi All,

I don't post much anymore, but I do still read all the posts, and

I'm so happy that so many of our children are progressing so nicely!

My daughter Meg will be 4 in October. She toilet trained in April

(I think, we could check the archives). She was a bit older

than " average " when she trained, but she got it right away and

trained in only three days - she even stayed dry at night at least

75% of the time. But over time it's gone downhill. First she lost

the nighttime dryness and we put her back into pull-ups at night

(she was wetting the bed almost constantly at night). Then she

started having little oopses, wetting herself just a little bit, at

first only once in awhile but over time with increasing frequency.

Sometimes she seemed to do this all day long, and we'd go through 5-

10 pair of undies a day. Now it was as this point that I believed

that yeast or bacteria may have been causing the problem, because

her accidents seemed to subside after a day or two on GSE and get

worse when we weren't using it. Just over the past week, she's

started having big-time standing-in-a-puddle accidents and she's

done this I think 5-6 times in the past 7 days. And last night she

had a BM in her pull-up diaper before bed (she was not lying in bed

or asleep). She's on the potty constantly - yesterday at the zoo

for 3.5 hours, she went 6 times and also created a puddle once - but

she's still having the accidents on top of that.

I should mention that we had NOT been getting the fish oil in very

frequently until this past week, and now she's getting her 6 pro-efa

and 3 pro-epa EVERY day instead of just whenever we could get her to

eat her yogurt. (BTW, we have a new system where I just squeeze

both my daughters' doses into a small cup with a little juice and

they " race " to finish the drink through straws. They each get a

small piece of chocolate when they're done. The first time I tried,

Meg took one sip and said " I don't think so Mommy " , but after her

sister started drinking she couldn't down it fast enough.)

So does anyone have any thoughts or advice? Could it be a temporary

side effect of the increase in fish oil? Is it the apraxia, or do

typical children go through this too? One worry for me is that

she's starting a new typical preschool in September, and I really

want her to be confident of her toiletting abilities, not

embarassed. The other worry is that her little sister (just turned

2) is showing some great first signs of being ready to train (and

lots of potty successes), so we were going to really try to get her

trained soon. I don't want Meg to feel disappointed by this.

Almost forgot to mention that Meg had been GFCF just for a month or

two when she potty trained and I took her off the diet shortly

thereafter. I know this seems like the obvious answer, but I'd

REALLY like to avoid going on the diet again. There have been no

other regressions off the diet - Meg has been doing so well that

she's been discharged from all therapies.

Thanks for any help - sorry to write a book!

Kerri