DS 4 has long skinny coils of poo - normal?

[bumbling]

Not sure they were always like that but have been for some time now. I guess a year or so. So I'm only wondering now because yesterday a play mate did a poo at our house and his was a small brown banana type thing and not a long stream of skinner poo!

My DS has always pooed a lot and has no permanent pooing issues, just intrigued as to why his is so different to his friends.

Have you asked your friends how their poo compares to yours?

Look everyone's body is different. As long as your son produces poo without discomfort that's fine.

I think you maybe need to get out a little more if you're finding yourself scrutinising his little friend's excrement and then fretting about it

Oh goodness, my DS2 poos like this! He is 6 now but he does a long sausage like this. He can block the toilet with the coils.

I would say, since DS has been doing this way since he was 3 or 4 with no adverse effects that it is OK, normal even.

What a conversation for a Friday morning!

Thanks ladies! I do need to get out more and I wasn't SCRUTINISING, he asked me to wipe his bum for him, they are only 4 afterall, and so I couldn't help it. Just made me wonder why so different!

Might try asking friedns, when I eventually go out in 2011 that is, what their poo is like. If only for the splutter into their wine.

For your delectation Bumbling I am happy to introduce you to the Bristol Stool Test.

Your son's sound like type 4, which, if you an bear to read the description, actually comes out as the ideal type!

Oh I love the Bristol Stool Chart Op - be sure to take that with you when you quiz your mates

Oh that looks fab. Off to do it now. And how reassuring that he's type 4 and that's fine. Ideal is wonderful, but fine is all I need!

DP will be beside himself. Whilst my interest in poo is brief and focussing on my son, DP is obsessed with how his look every day and will enjoy the Bristol Whatsit enormously.

I'm so glad I asked you all!

That's it, that's it. Type 4 it is.

Oh happy day!

Glad to have made you happy!

Now where would you say ds's friend's poo came? Type 3? So good, but not as good as ds's

Just a thought: maybe you could print this link off, frame it and hang it by the loo so that every day your dh can check himself against the chart?

DP sorry.

Dumbledore yes, friend is def a type 3! and you're right now I've gone from worried/bemused to pleased/smug, he may be better at football but mine is better at pooing! He's lovely little boy as it happens.

DP is a DH i interchange on here depending on what comes out of my oh so professional typists' fingers! I was considering emailing link to DH, but I think you're right that it would be a nice surprise (and entertaining for me) surprise to print it out. Nice and large and blutacked to the loo.

The little friend definately sounds like Type 3 to me. Maybe you should mention this just casually in passing to his mum? She needs to get her act together if he's going to compete defecation-wise

Great idea Northern! Maybe I should go early to school on Monday too and blutack it up outside the classroom. Very competitive parenting round here, Would go down like a cold cup of vomit, but at least would make me feel better about the multiple classes everyone else does and DS refuses to do.

You should definately poo shame them. I bet some of those hot housed darlings are producing Type 1

Well now, type 4 is only superior in that it's easier to pass. Might I suggest that your child is being shielded from manageable hardship that would set him up with good examples and experience of how to function in a cruel world?

I'd want a type 3 on my side during a fight. Normal but with a bit of edge.

May I recommend your DP becomes a fan of the Bristol Stool Scale on Facebook. Never fails to make me chuckle.

SOH - may dd3 is definately a 3 - I'll pass on her details to you for use in the Poo wars.

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Northern, lovely. I'll make her a general in my Poo Army.

lol at thread!

I'm loving the facebook page.

SOH - I don't think you shoud rule out a type 4 myself. Have you actually seen one properly. In real life? Would you be interested in a small sample through the post just be sure before you make up your mind.

Perhaps others would like to do the same? A kind of leaders debate but for poos? You might be persuaded by a "Type" you haven't encountered before. When DS goes to 5 and 6 I'd also suggested they'd pretty lethal in a fight.

As luck would have it dd3 has just done a poo - perfect type 3 - that's my girl

SOH . Just thinking. Even if you're still not keen you should have all types in your poo army surely. I'd hate for DS to be considered trench fodder, but if that's what it takes, that's what will toughen him up the most. I'd like to see the Taliban take on that kind of keen, mean poo fighting machine.

LOL Northern. I do it for a living too.

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Loving thread.