to want DD to stop reserving her biggest daily shit for 5am?

[doricpatter]

DS had me up 6 times between 10 and 4. Nothing unusual there. So I do not appreciate DD's current trick of producing a huge explosive poo every sodding morning at 5am precisely. And 90% of the time it takes half an hour of grunting and shuffling and feeding for it to make its appearance, and when it does it has such force it frequently requires a full change of clothes. After which she may go back to sleep for 45 minutes. By which time DS is up.

She's been doing it for a month now. I'm quite confident that I am clearly not BU, so the question is what the jibbering feck can I do about it?

YANBU

DS1 is nearly four and for the last week has been getting up between 5 and 5.30 to a big poo, and then doesn't go back to sleep. So he's losing out on at least 1.5hrs sleep and is a ruddy nightmare all day from tiredness.

So I'd be most interested in a solution.

(Although I would say that if your DD is straining for half an hour to do a poo - thank God DS1 does instant poos - maybe you can try giving her more liquids in the evening, and fibre during the day. At least if she can push it out faster she might sleep for longer....)

It isn't much to ask, is it?

She's EBF apart from the odd molecule of veg she manages to ingest while gumming dinner. I could always start offering prunes ...

Is there an overnight poo agreement going round. DS has just started doing a 4 am poo for the last two weeks. It is definitely unamusing.

Oh no! YANBU but no solutions sadly.

Don't worry, it won't be too much longer til the clocks change so it'll feel like an extra hour in bed (even though it isn't really)

Oh DS2 is doing this at the moment too...

I was listening to the news and they are thinking about putting the clocks forward 2 hours apparently.

I am horrified at what that would mean in October...DC's would be up at 4 am

If ds starts doing this then DH will definately be the one getting up to change him. I will happily do every night feed since ds was born because once he is asleep it takes dh over half an hour to wake up enough to function but maybe the smell would be enough to shock him into an alert and attentive state?

How old is she?

She's 5 months, forever - it's ok, she's not 15 or anything

What time does she gum her veg? ()
Have you tried moving it forwards or back an hour to see if she poos the night before/later in the morning?

DS is 5 months, but he saves his first poo for about 7.30am after breakfast [phew]

She gums it whenever I can be arsed slinging it her direction - sometimes a couple of times a day. Sometimes not at all. Neglected second child baby led weaning innit.

I thought about trying her on curry for breakfast for a few days ...

My dd does this too. It's the hour of grunting and wriggling around before that does my head in!

She's stopped!

It was 1.56am last night instead

Its an hilarious way of putting it ,Doric "Gabby"

DD did this for a while around the same age! Nightmare. You have my sympathies.