If anyone's read my thread in Health you'll know that my whole family has been down with a vomiting bug this half term - and now DH has it very badly, with diarrohea as well.
This is a bit of an excuse for the post that follows Apologies to those who've heard parts of the saga before...
DS2 (7, ASD) has been toilet trained for wee since last Feb. but we've had no success at all in getting him to poo on the toilet. He goes in his pants - and usually scoops out the contents with his hands. During the day he has recently taken to putting it down the loo (which we see as positive) but at night, even though he has a porti-potty in his bedroom, he deposits it over the stairgate we have on his bedroom door. Tonight I went up very soon after putting him to bed as I knew he needed to go - and there he was covered in it, throwing it over the barrier and laughing. I got him into the bathroom where he started trying to hug me with his poo covered hands - which is when I lost it. Normally I'm very calm where poo is concerned - and DH and I have made a recent decision to be deadpan when he does it, as the ' No, DS2, poo goes in the toilet' approach wasn't working at all. But I spent all day in bed yesterday feeling like death, DH is really poorly, and I really, really have had enough of this. I was much rougher than I needed to be when I was washing his hands and I even smacked his hand at one point when he was trying to get to his bottom again . Of course, this just made him scream and shout - I KNOW it doesn't work with him because he just doesn't get it . Now feeling very guilty - have been up again and he's fine - but who knows what effect it had on him?
The wonder is that we don't get bugs more often, the amount of poo that we, and he, must be exposed to.
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Poo handling driving me mad - lost it with DS2 tonight
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sphil · 29/10/2009 20:20
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