Poop up baby's back

[TokenGinger]

Can anybody shed any light on why this always happens?

DS is 6 months and any time he does a runny poo, it's all up his back with a vest ruined in the process 😩

He's 10.5kg and in size 4+ nappies which are the right size for his weight and we've tried a few different brands.

What are we doing wrong?!

I had success with boots nappies with elasticated backs
But I don’t know why it happens

With my older DD it was undiagnosed CMPA.

How often does he poo? Is it because he is crawling/wriggling around?

Try pulling the nappy down a little to leave more space for the poop if that makes sense!

Bigger nappies. I'd definitely put my long skinny "heavy wetter" in a 6 by then.

CMPA is an interesting one. He's 6 months and yet to sleep longer than 2 hours at one time. Somebody suggested to me trying soy milk because her son had CMPA and as soon as they took away the cow's milk, he slept through.

He generally poos once a day, though sometimes more.

I'll definitely try a bigger nappy and try pulling it down a little too. He has such a wide tummy (size 9-12m clothes) so we need bigger nappies anyway but we haven't tried a 5!

If he's laying down or there's pressure on the back it will just shoot up. Should stop once he's standing more.

Ours was cmpa too, he still has the odd poonami though. I just soak the vests in vanish or I’d be bankrupt on baby clothes.. I stick with dark colours if I can too lol. Weight guides on nappies aren’t the best either, sometimes longer babies need a size up quicker etc.

It's really common and happens with most babies to be honest.

I agree with PP- try a size 5 nappy.

I think CMPA would have a lot more symptoms than this, and you would have noticed before 6'months. Is he unsettled, crying a lot? Frequent runny poo?
Plus you don't really want to eliminate a whole food group from his diet unnecessarily.

Doesn’t happen in cloth! I know they’re not for everyone but the 💩 containment is soooo much better!

Over 50% off babies with CMPA can’t tolerate soya.

Size 4+? Are you sure nappies aren't too big. My kid is in size 4, he's in 50th percentile for weight and is two.

Try different nappy brands. Sainsburys too have an elasticated back. Though if your baby is breastfed those watery pooh explosions will still happen from time to time

This kept happening to my son around the similar age. It did stop eventually just make sure you've always got spare clothes with you. I changed to nappy pants around 8 months, maybe try that! Aldi ones seem the best for us. They're starting to try different food and unfortunately their bodies dont know what to do with it

I’ve had it with both of mine. The only thing that stops it spreading is to change them the second it’s done to stop them wriggling about and spreading it. Unfortunately they liked to shit in their sleep or the car seat and get it all over themselves. I also found that Morrisons and Tesco nappies didn’t fit my oldest hence the leaking. He was a very long skinny baby so maybe you need to try a different brand. As for the clothes, a 90 degree wash and some vanish and you’ll get it out!

It happened with mine generally when she was ready to move up a size, each time

I'm not saying you shouldn't rule out any tests but I had two children and the shit up the back was common. Especially if the nappy was wet and less absorbent. It stopped as they got older. If you think about it nappies aren't that big and some of their shits can be huge! Where else can it go?

Happened to my youngest so much we called her a nickname she still has in the family to this day (now 27). You have my full sympathy! Can't tell you the nickname as that would be very outing.

Have you started weaning? Different foods obviously have an effect on poops so maybe it’s that? I would size up though, or try a different nappy brand. We’ve always had leaky poops with Tesco nappies, Lidl have always been fine for us.

You could consider reusable nappies. I've had 2 children in them and never had a poo leak on clothing.

I second cloth nappies. Haven’t had a single poop leak since using them

Cloth nappies! But if you’re not up for it (not as much work as you might think though) a cloth nappy cover over a disposable works well.

www.thenappylady.co.uk/news/how-to-stop-disposable-nappies-leaking.html

I fourth cloth nappies. When we went away for the first time with DS we temporarily used disposables as didn’t want to wash on holiday, and we had poo up the back every single morning. Probably washed more clothes than I would’ve nappies, had we taken the reusables!

Bigger nappy and when you lie the nappy down before you lie baby down, fold the top over about 1cm to act as a poo catcher - works if you change them ASAP before the poo get wriggled out...

IME this just happens sometimes. Some nappies are better, sometimes it's because they've got a mild tummy upset or teething, but mostly it just happens sometimes. I put stain remover on with most of my washes to get rid of all the stains (and pre treat too a lot).

I actually suggested cloth nappies to DO and he was disgusted 🙄 So I mentioned a cloth nappy over his normal nappy in a morning (he usually poos when he wakes up).

It seems it's quite common, then. He does tend to have his poop when in the jumperoo so I guess it's the force sending it shooting up his back.

I will try a bigger nappy, though.

@Rubyroost DS is 10.5kg/23lb at 6 months old, sitting on the 99.6th percentile in 9-12m clothes. Size 4+ nappies are correct for his weight. Size 4 were not wide enough for his waist so we had to move to 4+.