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Having read the whole thread, I can see that your sister-in-law isn't going to change her mind, but let me just say...one of the saddest cases I've worked with in a childcare setting was a typically developing little girl (who was under two when I first knew her and is now past four) whose parents gave her laxatives every day. They believed she had a huge variety of food allergies (dairy, soy, beef, pineapple, citrus I believe), and they had a doctor's note...but the little girl had never had any testing done. And so when she arrived at the center, she was already on a restricted diet and laxatives. And she's now in preschool and hasn't achieved full bowel or even bladder control--no wonder, the way she's been treated! Having a BM has been and probably still is so traumatic for her--we'd have to change her diaper, pants, socks, shoes, and sometimes shirt. She had diaper rash from her waist to her knees. And this was the the child of two middle-class, professional, well-educated parents. Mom even worked in the medical field. I guess what I'm saying is, some parents can really screw up their kids by having too much faith in doctors.

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