Pooing in the bath - how is best to deal with this?

[mylittlefreya]

DD (9.5 months) has pooed in the bath 3 times in the last week. We used to bath together, but my enthusiasm for this has, erm, waned lately.

She has been constipated, which is an ongoing issue despite loads of fruit in her diet and occasional juice to try and keep things moving, it is particularly bad of late. I wonder if the warm water of the bath is just the most comfortable place for her to do it??

I wondered about putting her (cloth) swimming nappy on her in the bath? Can I dissuade her from doing it at this age? Did it happen to anyone else's child, and did they stop doing it as the constipation got better?

My bath has never looked more clean from the goings over it's had with bleach this last week! But we can't keep on like this.

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Not sure there is much you can do other than note that if bath time is the same time every night it might be her regular time for going. Wait till she goes and then bath her.

One of them was a morning time bath. Will try and delay it a bit after tea if in the evening though, thank you.

It will pass (so to speak) and if she's constipated then let her get on with it tbh. Just scoop the poo out of the bath and flush it away. She won't do it for ever and it might just help her feel better.

DS did this a few times when he was about 2. We didn't notice until I realised dd (who was about 9 months) was chewing on something

I suspect there's not going to be much you can do it about it at this age. Have you still got a baby bath? Maybe you could sit her in it to start off with to see if she's going to poo - at least it would be easier to clean out than a big bath.

Warm baths always got (still do!) my children going when they were constipated.

It's frustrating, but there's nothing you can do to stop it - she is too little to have any control over it.

If you put her in a swim nappy the warm water may not have the same effect, but if she's constipated then pooing is a good thing, even if it is in the bath. And if it's easier in the warm water then surely that's better than a constipated baby?

See my earlier thread about being naughty like the Maltesres lady,

Tried a cork?!

Only joking, hope things work out.

I'm sorry, I must have missed that thread stickyj raspberryberet you are right that it is much better that she is comfortable and not distressed. I will be sad to lose our time of being together in the bath, though, it has done many good things for both of us.

I will just go with it for now and see how she does.