I'm glad I read this thread. I've always thought Sam's bowels were a bit sluggish like mine, but Jackrose, everything you have said makes sense! I think we're only at the beginning of the holding on to poo phase. We're generally getting a poo every second day - they are becoming harder and harder. We don't yet have crying and carrying on when he tries to poo, but he's definitely holding it. And I think the events over last night and this morning are very telling. It appears that Sam ate something that disagreed with him. Massive spew with that distinctive sour smell and not at all like normal vomit smell. Followed by a poo-splosion in the morning. Same smell. But the weird thing was seeing this massive, hard lump of poo in the middle of the runny poo. Excuse the TMI.

I have coloxyl drops and lactulose in the house, but am assuming from comments that they don't work like the parachoc. I guess I'm taking a trip to the chemist. Hopefully we can get on top of this BEFORE it gets bad.

BW