4 yo poos in his nappy every night - how to stop it?

[ilovevenice]

My just 4yo DS has been dry in the day for over a year but every single morning has a poo in his pull up. I think it's in his sleep and he just doesn't wake up. We've tried encouraging him to try to do a poo every time he does a wee, and giving him a treat when he manages but it doesn't seem to be v effective. And now he is trying to take his pull up off in the morning to disastrous effect - we need to crack this!

[Piratejones]

I don't think you can stop i, but a onesie might stop him being able to take it off, I've had to put duct tape over the zip in the past.

[ilovevenice]

It may yet come to that! Hopefully he'll just get into a better routine with time. He sits on the loo for ages trying in the day to no avail!

[Piratejones]

The problem is if you do it too much there come a point where you make it into an issue for him.
The last thing you want is him to just continually hold it, become impacted and need a visit to a doctor. At least now he's going every night.