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Parenting lows?

78 replies

WasabiPeace · 07/03/2015 21:44

I think I've reached mine tonight.

Ds2 is three. Still in a pull up at night.

He pooed. In his pull up. This never happens. He came downstairs crying and wanted me to change him in my bedroom. He then had a major shitfit (pun intended) because I'd taken the poo away and he wanted to see his messy bum.

I'm tired. It's been a long week and a busy weekend so far. He was at fever pitch regarding the whole 'messy bum' thing.

So. I'm so sorry. But I wiped poo from the wet wipes back onto his bum. He did a brief squat and turn to the mirror, pronounced it a success, let me wipe his bum and re dress him and had gone back to bed.

HOW DID MY LIFE BECOME THIS?

Please tell me you have sunk lower than this? Please?

OP posts:
Missdee2014 · 07/03/2015 21:45

Disgusting. Why would u wipe shit back on ur child's bum????

emmeline7725 · 07/03/2015 21:48

You didn't do anything wrong. Your boy is now happy, asleep and clean. All good!

Cherrychocolate · 07/03/2015 21:49

I feel your pain OP, sometimes we just have to do these things for a bit of peace.........oh for just a little bit of peace ;)

potatofactory · 07/03/2015 21:50

You did nothing wrong. It's exhausting and it will get better. Clearly it's not great to wipe poo back on, but faced with a massive tantrum you have done no harm.

MrsMargoLeadbetter · 07/03/2015 21:50

I read this as doing something simple to calm your baby down....

justabigdisco · 07/03/2015 21:51

I would've done the same.

MrsMargoLeadbetter · 07/03/2015 21:51

Or 3 yr old rather than baby!

BrevilleTron · 07/03/2015 21:53

I'd say that's an inventive way to halt a tantrum! And you cleaned him off afterwards.
This will be a story to tell when he brings his first girlfriend home he is older Wink
We've all had moments like that. Don't worry

AgentZigzag · 07/03/2015 21:53

She'd only just wiped it off from his bum Missd, so it's not as though she was wiping someone else's shit on him or anything!

You have to block out the lows and focus on the highs like when they're asleep OP Wink it's the only way to survive.

Original poster
WasabiPeace · 07/03/2015 21:54

Oh! Thank you, all (almost all). He's my third child and this is most definitely a low point. Hideous.

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PenguinsandtheTantrumofDoom · 07/03/2015 21:55

Oh that is fine. I was reading it with trepidation that you had snapped and done something mean. He was clean and back in bed quicker than otherwise. All round win.

confusedandemployed · 07/03/2015 21:56

Missdee you clearly didn't read the OP. Or you are just a bit thick, I'm not sure which.

AwfulBeryl · 07/03/2015 21:56

Grin I don't think it's that bad at all.

GuendalinaCatEyes · 07/03/2015 21:57

We're having a poo crisis tonight too. 3-year-old refuses to poo in potty or loo EVER and we decided to not go with what he wants tonight which is to poo in his pull up. So instead he's been pooing his pants all day.
Lovely.

Original poster
WasabiPeace · 07/03/2015 22:00

I swear to god the whole 'I want to see my messy bum! I want my poo back!' is going to haunt me for days.

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MrsTawdry · 07/03/2015 22:00

I dunno. I think that whilst we've all sellotaped bananas back together and stuff...I'd draw the line at that OP Grin storing up trouble for yourself!

TwinkieTwinkle · 07/03/2015 22:01

I am going to assume that Missdee is the Gwyneth Paltrow of mumsnet, absolutely perfect. OP, brilliant. And hysterical. Also a blinder to pull out as a funny parenting story when he's older.

Writerwannabe83 · 07/03/2015 22:01

After a hard day at work reading the original post actually made me laugh out loud!! Hilarious!!

Well done wasabi on the creative way you dealt with the tantrum Grin

FirstWeTakeManhattan · 07/03/2015 22:02

Sitting in B&Q car park feeding the children vile burger and chips from the fast food van because we'd mistimed the whole outing and missed lunch, and nodding with a dead-eyed smile when DD1 said 'this is a really big treat isn't it mummy?'

Also having lunch in Spain with DD1 (again) wearing two tea towels and a bit of string as a nappy because we'd both thought the other had put in the changing bag.

Kodak moments.

OneEyedWilly · 07/03/2015 22:04

I swear to god the whole 'I want to see my messy bum! I want my poo back!' is going to haunt me for days.

Let it haunt him... For years... Grin

londonrach · 07/03/2015 22:05

Well done op for quick thinking. Now is that a story for his 18th or his wedding...Grin

Original poster
WasabiPeace · 07/03/2015 22:11

FirstWeTakeManhattan, we should swap parenting notes. We are clearly winning at this.

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ShakesBootyFlabWobbles · 07/03/2015 22:18

My friend's son had a thing about poo when he was a toddler. He used to put his hand down the back of his nappy and pull out the log with pride for all to see.
The worst event was when it was a little squidgy so just his hands got covered, then he woke up his dad putting the shitty covered phone he'd been playing with to his dad's face to say hello. It was only when his dad put the phone down he realised he had poop down the side of his face and his bedding was covered; he said he couldn't stop himself bursting into tears (the dad that is).
I think you are doing fine OP.

Zippidydoodah · 07/03/2015 22:21

What is it with little children and poo?! Obsessed I tell you.

Flowers op!

Gwenci · 07/03/2015 22:22

My parenting low was when DD ate her own poo.

She was finally in the bath after a loooong day and I was shattered. (She was 1 at this time by the way.) So I lay down on the bathroom floor. Could still hear her splashing and babbling so knew she was ok. Then it went ominously quiet, but enough minor splashing not to induce me to get up for another couple of minutes.

DD's beaming face then appeared over the edge of the bath. Smeared in sticky brown poo. It was on her face, in her mouth, smeared over her teeth. And the bath water was a murky brown so I couldn't even wash her mouth out with that.

That still stands as my parenting low. I now sit on the toilet seat to keep an eye on her in the bath: the water isn't the only risk when bathing!!