Kathy writes:
"I think we better be careful here. This is not a breastfeeding issue. There
is nothing about breastfeeding that causes this and nothing in the normal
breastfeeding pattern of the older breastfeeding baby stooling less
frequently than daily, that has any implications for encoporesis."

Kathy,
This is just the kind of response to this issue that boggles my mind. Who says there is no relationship between babies who stool infrequently and the development of this condition? Actually, from the descriptions I have read, it is just the kind of condition that could (I did not say "will") develop. Something causes it-- my curiosity was whether it was more likely seen in artifically-fed babies (not addressed in anything I have read), but there are clearly implications for bf babies as well.
Jennifer Tow, IBCLC, CT, USA

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