Remember that time Libby took off her diaper during naptime and smeared poop all over her bedroom and herself? Thankfully, that has not happened again.
After a few weeks of Libby taking off multiple diapers a day, I started putting them on backwards (thanks for that tip, Lauren!). It seemed to have solved the problem because Libby couldn't reach the tabs. Until Friday.
Lately we have been keeping an eye on Libby, noticing when she starts to grunt, or when she suddenly runs and hides. Then we grab her and plop her on the potty, and most of the time, we are rewarded with "poop in the potty!" Libby likes to flush and say "Bye, Poop!" and then she gets M&M's. The problem with this is that her poop comes around naptime almost every day. I try to get her to go before her nap, but that doesn't always work. So on the days when she poops during her nap, she bangs on the door and I go change her and she goes to sleep (or not, depending on when in the nap process the poop happened).
Friday the banging began, and I opened the door, and was greeted by that all-too-familiar smell. I looked down at Libby and...no pants. No diaper. I ran in the room, searching frantically for the tell-tale signs of poop-decorating, and found none. I looked behind the door, and there was her diaper, folded up, poop inside (and her pant leg, unfortunately). She had carefully taken off her diaper, then stood and banged on the door until I came in. No poop anywhere. Well, except on her bum. I cleaned her up and stuck her in the shower, then, feeling a little overwhelmed, I grabbed Jaina and sat fully clothed in my empty tub until John got home. He decided the pants were worth saving and extracted them from the diaper and threw them in the wash.
This morning, a repeat. Libby woke me up by banging on her door. John was already in the bathroom, shaving. I got up, opened the door, yada-yada-smell, yada-yada-no-pants, yada-yada-poop-on-the-floor. Wait, what?! Libby had carefully taked off her diaper, set it on the floor, then squatted a pooped a neat little pile right behind her door. And another in the corner. What a craptastic way to start the day. John cleaned up Libby and the poop, I diapered her and attacked the carpet with cleaner.
Seriously, you guys, how do you potty train a kid who poops only in secret? Who doesn't tell you she poooped until after you walk in on her? I recognize that she is making progress, she doesn't like to have a poopy diaper, but her verbal skills aren't to the point where she can tell me beforehand that she needs to poop, and her reasoning apparently doesn't include telling me she is poopy, instead prompting her to just remove she offending diaper right away. Tips? Anyone? Please?
In the four weeks since we moved in, I have scrubbed the following out my carpet: pee, chocolate milk, grape soda, cat hork, and now, poop. I totally see the merits of "hardwood floors throughout".
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Sorry I don't have any tips, but do you have a favorite carpet cleaner you would recommend?
Woolite Pet+Oxygen Carpet and Upholstery Cleaner (silver spray bottle). Works great, but has a funky smell while it's wet. I now associate that smell with poop, so even when I'm cleaning up chocolate milk, it still makes me gag :) No smell once it's dry, though.
I found your blog on one of my friends blogs, I hope you don't mind me suggesting something, but what I had to do with two of my children was to put safety pins in their diaper on the straps to keep it on. You might also want to try duct tape. It is wonderful! It stinks, literally. I wish you luck!
Bless your heart!!! You must have a lot of patience!!! Merry Grace still poops in a diaper. She is completely potty trained day and night, but when its time to poop she wants to do it in her diaper. So she brings me one, I put it on and she poops, and then I change her. It's annoying on one hand, but it could be worse, right? I wish I knew how to help. :) I did something similar when I was a kid and my parents put a potty in my poopy spot and I would use it. Still something that you have to clean up and out but maybe better than the floor. Its hard b/c kids are so different and respond to different things. I'm sure you guys will figure out something that works. :) Or go crazy trying!!! Good luck!!!
I was going to leave the same advice as Kristen... put a small potty in her bedroom. If she's not smearing it all over, maybe she would poop in it in "private" and then you could begin the process of teaching her how to wipe her bum... okay... maybe that's a ways away, but maybe the small potty would at least keep it off the floor.
Was it Libby who had poop coming out that I grabbed and ran to the toilet with at the beach house? Must have been. That was fun. :)
Potty in the bedroom. Cae would go outside, so I made a potty space for him out there, and it worked wonders.
The potty in the bedroom is a good idea - she has her own bathroom, but can't get onto the toilet by herself. Maybe a stool?
However, the last time we got a little potty for her she took it apart and wore it on her head. And she would hide her animals and binkies inside...
All I can say Kristin, is that I have been there, Julia pooped on the floor in her room a number of times and then tried to clean it up herself ... makes my blood pressure rise just thinking about it. Don't know what made her stop but I am thinking duct tape is not a bad idea.
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