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Why has my 5yo dd started shitting herself?

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Ilovemydogandmydoglovesme · 29/09/2012 14:36

Am at the end of my tether.

Why would a child want to do that? It is utterly disgusting. It's in her clothes, she hides knickers and wipes in her room and her room stinks of shit.

How many times have I got to explain to her that it's dirty and horrible and not to do it? Dh thinks it's attention seeking and laziness but we have recently had a bereavement in the family so wondering if it's some sort of displacing activity. She has got form for that sort of thing, when we moved house she kept peeing herself.

Somebody tell me how to wave the magic wand and stop my otherwise lovely girl being so utterly foul. Sad

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ratbagcatbag · 30/09/2012 17:55

My DSS did this, very sporadically between 6 and 8, eventually because it was so infrequent until we had one bad couple of weeks we took him to the drs. Turns out he had encoprenesis (sp) he just didn't feel. The need to go and then he did and was so embarrassed. Some lactose stuff later and he's was fine

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