Dirty protest nightmare.

[Belleende]

I have a 2.4 year old. She is an early riser, usually between 5 to 5.30, now even earlier with the clock change. When she wakes I go in, give her a drink and change her nappy and then I go back to bed. She has taken to then having a poo, taking her nappy off and it ends up all over her and the bedroom. It is vile. We have been delaying potty training as I am about to have dd2 and the advice seems to be to wait. Is there anything I can do to stop this that doesn't involve getting up at 5am?

[ProseccoMamam]

Am I really the only person that’s going to suggest a change of routine? A 4am start clearly isn’t working for you so it needs to be changed, it’s going to be a lot more stressful when you’re up every 3 hours in the night and then have to get a toddler up, dressed, changed and fed at 4.30am. Also shocked that people think it’s perfectly fine to leave a toddler in a room by themselves to play while mum has a lie in. No wonder your child is smearing shit on the walls, that’s what happens when you don’t watch your kids but yeah the obvious solution is to ziplock your child’s shitty nappy on them to the tune of mr tumble so you can go back to bed

[Belleende]

prosecco sanctimonious much? By what definition is 4.30 a lie in?
Read the thread, we had changed her routine, the clock change screwed that up.

And if a toddler is perfectly happy to play on their own, in fact even chooses that over coming out of their room, what is the issue exactly? (💩 aside)

[TheEagle]

No way could I leave my 2.5 yo DTs alone in their bedroom, in fact I can't really leave them alone in any room because of the chaos, destruction and personal harm they cause when alone.

However my older boy would have happily played alone in his room at this age, just not in the morning.

Could she drop the nap entirely? My DTs don't nap at all during the week any more, mostly due to childminder's school runs, and this definitely helps with their sleep. We still have to be up at 6.15 on the days I work but it's much more civilised than the 5 am starts.

Cutting out the milk might stop the poo so early as well.

DTs were taking off their grobags for a while so we put them on back to front and they can't get them off now. That might help contain her until you can change the nappy?

[barnacharmer]

OP. I also have a toddler who likes a chat with herself first thing, or her soft toys or to read her books. She will do that for up to 45 minutes. I think it is good that she is happily independently occupying herself. Why would I jump out of bed immediately at her waking up if she is happy? Some people are being incredibly harsh. How will she learn to sleep later if you get up with her in the middle of the night? I wouldn't be able to function at work either if I had ever up at 4
DD went through a period of opening her nappy during the night so would soak through at 2am and the whole bed would need changing as well as her. We put her in a backwards babygro and did a really simple sticker chart.

[minipie]

..what you need is a swimsuit (( the shortie type with a zipper )) on back to front and a onesie on top.

But not at night surely? Would be super sweaty to sleep in a swimsuit.

OP if it's been caused (or made worse) by the clock change then hopefully it will revert soon.

I think it's reasonable to try to teach your DC to play quietly in the am (using gro clock sticker chart etc) and normally would suggest that but that doesn't really work with the poo issue.

To give you a few minutes to get there before she takes it off:

• backwards grobag or onesie
  
• extra nappy on backwards over her nappy
  
• gaffer tape (!)
  

To sort the poo timing - try getting her into a cycle of pooing after dinner? Maybe plenty of fruit after dinner and then sit her on a potty 15 min later?

[badg3r]

Do you know when she does her big poo? I would be tempted to change nappy then hang about till she did her poo, going back to bed after changing a second time to leave her for her 30-40 min play... might that work? Can you and DP take it in turns in the morning so it is marginally less depressing?