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[2shoes]

you learn all about poo........
you talk about poo.....
you arrange your life arround poo....
bowell movements become your life

I'm more poo-lite - I average about 2 waily threads a year about DS and his pooing - in between times things go OK (well apart from the constipation....)

For a moment I read "you arrange your love life around poo.."

I was

Poo is the bane of my life - see bottom creme thread somewhere over the last couple of days.

Usually its elephant size and needs helping.

Now its caustic crud and needs an NBC suit!

Yup. Having just had a week in hospital with a faecally impacted DS ( thought we'd done with that..been good for years) I can absolutely agree with that statement

Back to poo obsession....!

DD once said to us, 'All you do is talk about poo'.

We even talk about poo at the dinner table

Yep, another poo obsessed family here. Ds1 is well trained - shouts 'POO ALERT' down the stairs if he sees or smells anything suspicious DS2 generally gets it in the toilet now - but unfortunately he puts it there manually rather than via his bottom! And then wipes his hands on any available surface. I have done a photo strip for him and he can tell me what each picture represents. He just can't/won't do it.

we're like totalchaos. Most of the time it's ok.

But god, he makes up for it when he does start again! We took a day trip to France, the aquarium in Bolougne. Half way through he poos himself. It's a very clever system to make sure you see everything, and trying to race him through it all to get him to the loos to clean him up was not fun. Then we had to get him downstairs and into a cubicle in the ladies to clean up as their were no disabled loos in sight.

Thankfully he usually saves it for in bed.

Yes, i have had enough of poo this week, dd2 was soooo bunged up but when she did manage to go she did it on the potty (which was a huge breakthrough) and then this morning we were late getting out of the house as dd1 was sat on the toilet shouting 'my poo wont come out' .

Luckily both my dd's will only poo at home (not so lucky when we are on holiday).

Between my guts and the kids', I'm sick and tired of the stuff. And yes, we have to work very hard at not discussing it at the dinner table.

Yes, Poo visits us on average twice a week now, but when it does... what an event!
We had years of it exploding & causing chaos whenever & wherever it pleased.
Now for ds2 it is an unwelcome visitor who he tries to avoid, hides under the bed, cries, but eventually out it pops!

Poo in abundance here last night - our fault for letting DS2 have a g/f cake in a cafe which probably had egg in it. Bless him though - he made it to the loo every single time except for the last (and worst) when he really couldn't help it. I spent an hour washing him, the bathroom, the bedroom carpet... and the carpet still has stains. Any tips for removal?

hope mini-sphil is OK now. my only tip for removal is lots of dettol. we had 10 days ish of poo going swimmingly into the toilet - then DH let DS have some ice cream yesterday. and off we go again. kept DS off school today just in case it was a bug and not the ice cream - he's fine, and if anything slightly constipated . And if he gets too constipated he wets himself. pffff - who knew that poo could be so demanding.