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Today started with a TERRIBLE Poo Disaster.. someone tell me this still happens to them...

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CreepyJess · 24/10/2005 21:02

..Not that I would wish it any of you... but I need a feeling of solidarity here... (and slightly more solid poo would have been good too!)

Riding high on a wave of euphoria after DS's noodle bar success, I woke up this morning to that terrible, strong, all encompassing, overwhelming smell of Poo That Has Escaped From Nappy And Travelled..

Oh God I don't have the stamina or the stomach for this anymore.. I had been lulled into a false sense of security by well fitting nappies and 'high rise' sleeping garments! But woe was us.. (I had to wake DH up to help).. the nappy was wadded up in the foot of his sleep suit.. and as for the poo.. it was everywhere from his nether regions to his feet! I dumped him in the bath and scrubbed him with Baby Softwash.. it took me ages to get between his toes clean!.. even tho this gives him eczema. We have to use Dermol for him really.. but it is unperfumed.. and sweet Jesus, did we need perfume!!

Then the other kids awoke with much exaggerated gagging.. and genuine heaving from DS1 who I had to recruit to go get carrier bags...

I then burnt several joss sticks... probably not good for the lungs of DS1 with has CF, so close to the bedrooms.. but it was necessary...

One positive at least he (DS2) hadn't quite managed to gain access to it.. he had got his zip undone and was having and good go but I got to him in the nick of time.. or else more terrible occurances, too terrible to type about but involving an DS having an extremely unsuitable breakfast!.. would have occured...

Please Mummies and daddies of the special children variety, tell me you empathise with this regrettable start to my day!

CJ x

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HRHQoQ · 24/10/2005 21:05

Don't have children of the special vareity - but woke up a few months back to find DS1 had 'deposited' dioreah (sp) over his bedroom floor, down the stairs and all over the living room and dining room carpets

RottenRhubarbWitch · 24/10/2005 21:06

I don't think your child needs to have special needs to do this kind of poo! My ds is 22 months old and is still capable of doing the extra special ride-up the back poo in the most inappropriate places, i.e in Church or in the middle of a restaurant just when the waiter puts your meal down in front of you. Then you realised that you ran out of baby wipes and forgot to put some more in the 'bag', so you wet a bit of toilet roll and that just ends up sticking to the poo. Then he puts his hand in it and rubs his hair with his hand, then you also discover that you have no spare clothes for him. Then someone walks into the toilet and gives you one of 'those looks' and then you realise that your day is irrevocably bad and you should just go home!

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CreepyJess · 24/10/2005 21:07

Thank you QofQ.. I seem to remember you are a fellow suffer of poo disasters Didn't mean to exclude the parents of NT kids.. it's no fun for anyone!

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CreepyJess · 24/10/2005 21:09

LOL Rhubarb I was in church once and stood up for a hymn, holding 9 month old DD (NT) in my arms when DS1 said to me'' what's that dripping onto your shoe?'

Sadly it was the liquid contents of DD's nappy.. and it wasn't wee wee...

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RottenRhubarbWitch · 24/10/2005 21:13

PMSL! Perhaps his bowels were so moved by the whole religious thing?

eidsvold · 24/10/2005 21:22

dd1 has bouts of constipation due to her ds and we then have days of no poo until the liquid parrafin kicks in and then you have two or three days of nothing but poo that reeks..... and it is usually oily and horrible.

I am usually gagging from the smell and we need to get the air freshener out.

Her favourite at the moment seems ot be when she is at swimming lessons - the pool is heated and invariably when her lesson is over and she gets out of the pool - I am hit by the familiar smell. She still wears swim nappies but I am left with a mess to clean up whilst the parents of the other children who are now having their lesson glare/stare at me.

doormat · 24/10/2005 21:23

creepyjess rofl
ds did one like that tonite, he stunk the house out

pixel · 24/10/2005 23:07

I've had to strip ds twice this week due to poo leaking in all directions. It's horrible trying to get a pooey t-shirt over their head when they are trying desperately to get away! DD's computer chair is still soaking wet because he was sitting on it at the time. The last one got thrown away in the end because it was so foul and stained. Still, he stayed in the one room this time, not like when he got poo on the cream carpet, then rolled the computer chair through it (ever tried to get poo out of castors?), trod in it, wiped his feet with his hands, then went and sat on our bed....

I'm surprised we haven't all got pneumonia as we have all the doors and windows open so often. Unfortunately I can't stand the smell of joss sticks either!

misdee · 24/10/2005 23:08

i remember just after we started potty training dd2 she got a case of the runs. she was leggin it to the loo and didnt get there, we heard a splat and a scream, there was river of poo in the hallway. needless to say we put her back in nappies till she got better.

anniebear · 25/10/2005 07:49

Oh no, thats awful!!!

We have had problems with poo also!!

Not good when she is 4! uggh the smell!

JakBat · 25/10/2005 09:45

Yep, Jess, happens regularly. To top it all, the other day, DS (just potty-trained) had a poo accident in his trousers and DD ate it. Well at least it's organic But it was a bit of a low point, I have to say.

ScummyMummy · 25/10/2005 09:48

Oh Jess! What a start to the day eh? Much sympathy.

Davros · 25/10/2005 10:02

The difference with children with SN is that they can do this sort of thing when they are MUCH older than an NT child and sometimes don't have the "ugh" reaction of others. We had a terrible phase recently when DS wouldn't stop pooing (he's 10 years old) and he even basically used his bed and the whole bedroom as a toilet 2 nights in a row. He was squeezing poo out ALL the time and playing with it. This was after 5 years of not really having to supervise him too closely with toileting. He did it for a month and just stopped. Mind you, he wets the bed EVERY night which wakes him up (and me) and he often doesn't go back to sleep (4.30 today, quite late!) and there's all the washing...... I have a friend whose son is also 10 and is not toilet trained and she or her husband has to sleep WITH him every night as he will eat poo if he can get it, lovely, better than a Full English!

carly82 · 25/10/2005 10:11

my ds is three and on four occasions i have woken up with the chorus of "mummy i poohed" only to find that not only had he poohed but decorated the walls, windows some toys and what was left over was thrown down the stairs and promptly stuck to the wall{shock]

anniebear · 25/10/2005 10:36

Yes, Davros , it is bad enough at 4, I dread Ellie (SN) being older and sticking her hands down her nappy. I realise the older the worse it is

Pinotmum · 25/10/2005 10:50

A few weeks ago dd woke up and came downstairs crying uncontrollably. I couldn't understand what she was sying so got down on my knees and put my arms round her. One arm was over her knickers which had a large turd in it . Turns out she had an upset tummy and was off for a few days. However, when I took her back up stairs I found poo on the slide of her cabin bed, on her pillow and sheets. She had obviously woken up confused by the sensation and took the slide option to get to me - gross!!

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CreepyJess · 25/10/2005 10:54

Oh no Davros - what a nightmare. I do try to deal with it all with humour (not while clearing it up obviously but afterwards) hence this thread.. but it's really not all that funny is it. This why I was particularly addressing it to SN parents.. not to exlude NT parents because I know 'sh*t happens' universally.. but it so so much harder to handle when they are older. DS positively seems to enjoy the poo incidents - laps up all the attention and is immune to the terrible awful smell. And it's actually so depressing when you think that the end is not in sight.

That month with your ten year old sounds like a complete nightmare Davros.

DS did it again this morning (his bowels are obviously a little loose atm) but not as bad thank goodness. Another sleep suit being washed at 90 degrees tho.. And yesterday I had to put the washing machine on a 90 degree spin cycle with nothing in it because it stunk so much after I had washed the sleep suit. The sleeps suits are hard enough to get hold of without them being pooed in every other day... sigh

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Davros · 25/10/2005 11:02

Yeah, you have to laugh about it........ afterwards! There's nothing so disheartening as that horrid all pervasive smell of a morning! When we've had bouts of it I become immune although I don't like it. I've just spent nearly £150 on waterproof bedding of various sorts

QueenVictoria · 25/10/2005 11:13

Oh CJ! What a mare!

I dont have a children of the special variety but i do have a magic poo incident of my own that was awful and very public.

When DS was about 4mths i was out and b/feeding him in the car in the drivers seat before starting my shopping. I didnt hear him go or strain or anything. I had a blanket across my lap too. I sat him up to wind him and my hand was wet. When i looked it was covered in poo. I looked down his back and could see nothing i thought it had just travelled up his back. No poo was on the blanket.

I picked him up and got out the car to change him. I suddenly noticed the back of my legs felt very cold. I looked down and saw nothing but when i twisted round i had poo all over the bum of my jeans and the back of my legs. The poo had magically travelled out his nappy and past the blanket on my lap and between my legs without a trace and left a puddle in the seat which seeped all over the back of me. So i had to stand in the of the car park at sainsburys, covered in very obvious poo, cleaning him off and the seat before sitting on the travel change mat to go home and shower and change, then come back to do my shopping.

Im soooo glad that b/fed baby nappies dont smell! That would have made me gag stuck in traffic covered in really smelly stuff!

macwoozy · 25/10/2005 11:40

Yep I've had a poo incident this weekend. My 5 yr old ds has had a bit of diarohea (no way can I spell that one) and because he's got a habit of putting his hands down his pants, he managed to get a fair bit of pooh in his hands. Rather than come to me and ask me to wash his hands, he thought he'd wipe them all on the walls instead. I just managed to catch him in the act

hub2dee · 25/10/2005 11:54

dd had a nappy / body suit / up the back yesterday... just wondering if any of you found the containment much more successful in cloth nappies (either snugger wasit / gusseted legs / external wrap) than dispies IYSWIM...

To the SN mums: Would it help any to be alerted promptly to a wee or poo (for example in the night) ? I'm just wondering because although I can't think of a clever way to detect poo (using an electronic gadget), there are various systems to detect moisture which could perhaps be used to enable prompt attention....

hub2dee · 25/10/2005 12:01

... meant prompt 'intervention'. Am not implying lack of attention.

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CreepyJess · 25/10/2005 12:11

Hub.. to be notifed quickly would be wonderful as this would prevent the terrible occurances.. well.. occuring! Am quite ok with the changing of pooey nappies - even though they are worse than dealing with a baby - as it's a case of having to..it's just the poo that travels that is so awful.. not least because it gives them chance to 'do' things with it.. urrrgghhhhhh! I will never become immune to that... I expect other will agree...

I wonder if a gadget could detect a chemical in poo? Is it methane than makes it smell so awful? I am trying to be techie here.. lol

CJ x

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JakBat · 25/10/2005 12:20

Yeah, I can change any manner of hideous nappy, it's the smearing and eating of it that gets to one sensibilities

hub2dee · 25/10/2005 12:21

Just thinking, CJ, that poo is vaguely liquidy anyway, so the little gizmos which measure conducitivity (ie air = 0, water =1) would probably be able to be triggered by sloppy poo = whatever IYSWIM...

I'll scratchy head...