18 month DS poo'ed himself in his sleep

[sphinxster]

DS has never poo'ed in his sleep. I've just gone in to check on him watch him sleeping & kiss him goodnight and his bedroom stank of shit. He's had a poo and is sleeping soundly. He hasn't cried out at all tonight so it seems he's done it in his sleep.

Normal? Worrying?

Calpol gives both of mine slightly dodgy bowel movements.
Neither of mine have done a poo in the night since they were a couple of weeks old, so while I wouldn't be at all worried i would certainly have commented on it!
I sometimes wake in the night needing a poo...

Mine did poo in the night but always woke to do it (and told us all about it) - even in the CMPI bewborn 10 poos a day she knew and yelled!

He went to bed at 7 and I went in to check him about 10:30 on my way to bed so he could've been lying in it for hours. It hadn't set though, it was quite easy to get off - he didn't even wake up!

Glad to hear daytime only poo'ers aren't such a rarity!!

Mine does it all the time. It's irritating as it wakes her up but I hadn't thought to be worried about it. However I've never known any different so just assumed it was normal, I can see why you'd be surprised by a change in routine. I'm sure it'll settle down when he starts feeling better - lucky for you, who knows when my dd will grow out of it!

I don't understand why one nighttime poo would cause you to worry. DS usually poos in the morning but will occasionally do it at other times.

My Dd is not usually a night time poo toddler either, but it does sometimes happen if she is poorly or teething. I'd put it down to that and the extra fibre.

My dd occasionally. Luckily I could smell it a mile off

I remember my DS doing this just after he fell asleep for a week solid. I was able to unzip grobag and change him without waking - goals!

"He's got a horrid mucousy cold so we've let him scoff weetabix as he has no appetite but it's obviously not doing him any good."

If he's lost his appetite but is eating weetabix, that's a good thing surely? I don't understand why you're saying that it isn't doing him any good.

Once a day?!???
My son had 11 pooey nappies in one day once

There was nothing wrong with him either

My son very rarely poos in his sleep, and rarely ever has but if he has a cold sometimes the mucus upsets his stomach and very occasionally he will poo in his sleep then. I can easily count on one hand the amount of times he's done it since 3 months old and he's now nearly 2.

My DS is 22 months and has very rarely pooed at night when sleeping. So I'd be surprised if he did. I wouldn't be hugely concerned though for a one off given the change to his diet and his cold.

Has he got any teeth coming through?

It was more a question of: should I be concerned by a change in bowel habits. This is unusual for this particular child. They're all different and this one just doesn't do sleep pooing even when he's been ill!

I thought the weetabix might have caused the change in bowel habit.

It turns out that it was the start of a bout of diarrhoea.

Between him and his refluxy sister, I've been up to my elbows in shit. I might need to leave the binmen a bottle of whiskey.