My Life Revolves around my kids poop.
I'm dead serious.
This is not for the weak of stomach... I've warned you.
Katie has always had constipation issues. Since she was in diapers.
When she was eating baby cereal, we used to have to put prune juice in it just to try to help her out a little and even that didn't always work.
(Buying my little 6 packs of prune juice was embarrassing - kind of like buying condoms or tampons.... only there's no fun to come!!!)
It has gotten so bad that we have literally had to pull it out of her.
When we potty trained her, I figured it was going to be a disaster - but shockingly... it wasn't...
So, there's one poopy plus!
Now that she is potty trained... she just holds it in. I swear she has seriously amazing control of her body function - because she can hold it in for DAYS and DAYS.....
So it's a battle.
We have discovered that she absolutely cannot eat bananas.. not even half of one because that means about 3 days of misery for all of us. Of course, she loves bananas - so that's a huge bummer.
Now, we try to encourage her to go every day. She has bouts of time where this works and all is well in our house. Everyone is happy.
Then she has bouts where she refuses to go either because she's afraid it might hurt or she wants to have control and then we all are cranky and angry and we fight back and forth trying to convince her that it's a good idea to go. Then my husband has to sit with her for half an hour at a time while she's on the potty waiting for her to poop.
She refuses to let me sit with her during this and screams and yells that she wants him - so the poor guy gets stuck 95% of the time with it.
Then there is Ben. He has the opposite problem. he gets Diarrhea all the time. The doctor keeps telling us it's nothing - but the daycare doesn't want a kid there with diarrhea. So last week, they kicked him out on Wednesday afternoon and he couldn't go back until Monday. We took him to the doctor and they again said it was no big deal. Then I told them I'm concerned and they said if I was worried, I could collect a poop sample and bring it in.
That is the most disgusting thing I've ever done in my life. Particularly because the poop I had to use for the sample was the worst smelling, most foul thing I've ever seen.
Ben has also picked up the habit of waking up to poop every night between 1 and 3. If he doesn't wake up for that, then he probably pees through his diaper and we have to get him and change everything for that.
Our happiness at night during family time and our ability or inability to sleep all revolves around when and how our kids poop and pee.
This is something I wasn't prepared for and I am hoping that it gets better- because it's not fun.
It's not
Our happiness on any given night can completely depend on whether she poops. Our sleep deprivation level depends on whether he poops OR pees.
This is the stuff no one tells you about - so I'm letting it all out;)
Anyone have any ideas on how we can possibly try to change his pooping schedule so he doesn't have to wake up to do it in the middle of the night?
Anyone??
Please:)
I'm dead serious.
This is not for the weak of stomach... I've warned you.
Katie has always had constipation issues. Since she was in diapers.
When she was eating baby cereal, we used to have to put prune juice in it just to try to help her out a little and even that didn't always work.
(Buying my little 6 packs of prune juice was embarrassing - kind of like buying condoms or tampons.... only there's no fun to come!!!)
It has gotten so bad that we have literally had to pull it out of her.
When we potty trained her, I figured it was going to be a disaster - but shockingly... it wasn't...
So, there's one poopy plus!
Now that she is potty trained... she just holds it in. I swear she has seriously amazing control of her body function - because she can hold it in for DAYS and DAYS.....
So it's a battle.
We have discovered that she absolutely cannot eat bananas.. not even half of one because that means about 3 days of misery for all of us. Of course, she loves bananas - so that's a huge bummer.
Now, we try to encourage her to go every day. She has bouts of time where this works and all is well in our house. Everyone is happy.
Then she has bouts where she refuses to go either because she's afraid it might hurt or she wants to have control and then we all are cranky and angry and we fight back and forth trying to convince her that it's a good idea to go. Then my husband has to sit with her for half an hour at a time while she's on the potty waiting for her to poop.
She refuses to let me sit with her during this and screams and yells that she wants him - so the poor guy gets stuck 95% of the time with it.
Then there is Ben. He has the opposite problem. he gets Diarrhea all the time. The doctor keeps telling us it's nothing - but the daycare doesn't want a kid there with diarrhea. So last week, they kicked him out on Wednesday afternoon and he couldn't go back until Monday. We took him to the doctor and they again said it was no big deal. Then I told them I'm concerned and they said if I was worried, I could collect a poop sample and bring it in.
That is the most disgusting thing I've ever done in my life. Particularly because the poop I had to use for the sample was the worst smelling, most foul thing I've ever seen.
Ben has also picked up the habit of waking up to poop every night between 1 and 3. If he doesn't wake up for that, then he probably pees through his diaper and we have to get him and change everything for that.
Our happiness at night during family time and our ability or inability to sleep all revolves around when and how our kids poop and pee.
This is something I wasn't prepared for and I am hoping that it gets better- because it's not fun.
It's not
Our happiness on any given night can completely depend on whether she poops. Our sleep deprivation level depends on whether he poops OR pees.
This is the stuff no one tells you about - so I'm letting it all out;)
Anyone have any ideas on how we can possibly try to change his pooping schedule so he doesn't have to wake up to do it in the middle of the night?
Anyone??
Please:)
