we have a poo problem heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp

[melsy]

The last couple of weeks , dd 2.5 has taken to removing her poooey nappy 6am in the morning and smearing it everywere , all over the carpet , rocking chair etc. We repeatedly say to her to call mummy or daddy 1st thing and tell us she needs changing , but she wont stop , even though she repeats back to us what she musnt do with her nappy.
She isnt trained quite yet , as Im waiting for easter holidays and warmer weather to let her run naked ,but I also find her doing the same during the day , thankfully in the toilet. Its so hard as I want to praise her for getting herself on the loo, but not for taking it all off 1st thing.So now shes getting a confused message and Im stumped??????? The thing is even clean and dry , shell still wear nappys for bed.

What do we do , she just wont listen to us at the mo???

Oh god, what a pita, my dd is close to doing this, insists on taking her nappy off and sometimes has to be pretty much held down to do it because 'I do it, I do it, I do it' (imagine this at 100 miles an hour in a high pitched emergency shriek!). What about a one piece thing that does up at the back so she can't get it off? Mind you, I am posting this knowing jolly well my dd would protest if I tried to put her in one!

take her nappies off!
why wait another week. she might crack it by then. give it a go!

Yer mornings are a right pita , she used to sleep till gone 8 , now its bloomin crack of dawn and scrubbing the floor to boot,(not fun in my 21wkpg state). Dh and I despair in the mornings. My mums says shes known a lot of babys and toddlerrs , but not as nutty and spirited as our cracker !!!!

mmm a one peice thing , intriguing, but yes dd would have a fit probably , shes getting more and more spirited since nursury.

but shell still need a nappy at night AuntyMandy , I cant trust her at 2.5 to be clean all night.

my 3 older ones were out of nappies on a night by 2.5
try it..it cant be any worse!

set your alarm for 6am and get up before she does it?

I really cant do 6am starts, Im recovering from a very nasty illness and 21wks preggy, I know what your saying is sensible , but its just to horrible to contemplate.

So did they go to the toilet at night ? We have a gate on her room otherwise she wanders around, and she cant be trusted , weve had all sorts the last couple of weeks since she came out of the cot. Sudacream mares , wipes mares, and now poooey mares.

Melsy, I think definitely try an all in one so she can't so easily undo herself.

I am making it up as I go along here, but do you think changing the way she eats might work? If she has her 'ccoked meal' dinner in the evening before bed, could you move this to lunch time, then give her a lighter'lunch' type supper in the evening.

I just wondered if this might mean her system wasn't ready with a big poo at the same time it is now?

do you mean like a babygro type thing ? I think she would know how to take the blumin thing off !!!

Its funny as some mornings she doesnt poo till later. Ive not really linked it to her food intake during the day , used to as a baby. Shes at nursury now , so she has snacky lunch a lot and then a proper meal for dinner.

I only thought of it cos it suddenyl struck me that my DS used to be a regular morning nappy poo-er until (for other reasons) I changed our main meal to lunchtime. Since then, he doesn't poo until mid-morning!!!

Just thought it might effect the same with your DD? You can always send frozen proper meals in for them to give her, most nurseries will heat food I think?

Hadnt thought about that with the nursury, will have to check it out this week with them.

good luck! I do hope you can work something out - it's bad enough waking at 6 isn't it, let alone the pooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

And try a baby grow on back to front - had to do this with DD2 at about that age else she'd strip in the night then cry when she got cold. She didn't seem to figure out how to remove them if the fastenings were at the back.

lol feisty ! like a straight jacket !!

you are having to get up around 6 anyway to face a mess..anyway set Dh's alarm!!!

omygawd Im so proud , at 6:30 this morn dd called mummy to change her nappy, she then went back to bed. I cant tell you how proud I am of her.
Im hoping shes settling down now , as this was her 2nd night in her new bedroom, and nana and papa made a fuss last night that she is a big girl now in her girly bedroom and not the babys nursury. DD even said at the door of her old nursury this is for the baby now !!!!!

Please pray that it continues , as she also went to bed las night with little fuss and no crying like the last 2 weeks. I didnt realise how unsettled she would be in a bed next to her old cot , but its made a hug difference to how shes behaving , so the 2 must have been connected as shes seems very different this morbning not being near it now. It must have made her very confused not to say cramped with no room to play, but she was happy as larry playing till I came down this morning.

pray pray pray !!!

so no one gonna share my proud moment?? come on girls for recovering ill preggy mummy????????

My ds went through this at 1.5, he did it all the time. we put night clothes on back to frount, used pull ups, put nappy on back to frount but each time he worked it out and would end up in a mess (one way or the other). In the end I taped his nappy on with parcel tape, and his pj's in the winter to stop him getting cold.

hes nearly two and i dont have to worry now as he doesn't bother now! I felt a bit mean but it worked.

well done melsy, im 8weeks pg and as have had some pain have told dd she cant be picked up and even at 17 month the 'your a very big girl and will be a great big sister' works, if she goes back maybe try telling her she'll need to set a good example for the baby as shes a big sis and that should do the trick!!

good luck, and well done!

wow littlepeople , little clever one he sounds.

Thank you staceym11 you made me all chuffed.

I hope Im not eating me words in the morning!!!

Well Melsy... how was last night?