Pooing In The Night...

[Becky77]

When does it stop? My DD gets a feed at around 3 or 4 in the night but 50% of the time she wakes an hour later having done a poo and needing her nappy changed... I wish she'd just poo during the feed so I could change her then and we could all get back off to sleep until 6 or 7

No advice, but going through the same with DS2. I'm sure he wouldn't wake so early if he didn't poo at some point in the night.

Watching your post with anticipation...

I'm glad I'm not alone!

How old is your DD?

My DTs pooed in the night until maybe 12 weeks? I think?!?!? But they would at least usually poo straight after a feed and not an hour later.

Highly annoying.

Touch wood they never poo in the night now. But they are nearly 10 months.

My DD is 21 weeks... She doesn't poo between 6pm and 3am... It's just an hour after the early morning feed... maybe her body thinks it's morning time? During the day she poos about twice as I'm feeding her... She's obviously pretty pooey all round really!

I was hoping loads of people wee going to say "it stops at 6 months never to return"!

Becky, if it's any consolation both mine seldom pooed in the night after getting established on solids...and I have known them to wake up with a poo in their nappy first thing in the morning apparently none the worse for not having been changed by their unsuspecting parents. I always put barrier cream on just in case and it seems to help as they have never had red bums or been in any discomfort so far. So maybe you haven't got long to go!

Course the poo worries don't end there as I always worry about dd and constipation and my son has the opposite problem being such a fruit monster. But at least it's not in the night

My DS stopped doing it at around 12 weeks, and then went back to it at about 15 .

I think that poo / wind issues in the night is what wakes him up often (too often!) and wish it would stop! What can you do though?

You can't do anything.

I don't think GF has a chapter on poo training

Oh yes forgot my DS1 went back to doing it at about 11 months, every night for a whole month. Then it stopped again. Phew.

Hi Becky! DD is 6 mths this week and we have just starteed her on solids. Every morning when I go in, the room stinks of poo and there is an explosive one in her nappy (lovely). Luckily, so far, she is quite happy to roll around in her own poo I take it your DD is waking crying when she does a poo??? Sorry, not got any advice though.

Nope she doesn't cry she just wakes up and wont resettle at around 5.30am on the days when she hasn't done a poo she sleeps longer... Ahhh well I suppose I just have to wait it out

Congrats on the weaning... How's it going?

At least she is not crying. I am now sick of orange coloured veg and not looking forward to moving onto the green ones She brought up carrot over her new pink jacket the other day...nice. The only thing she likes so far is baby rice!