My daughter is still in a diaper and in a crib. A couple weeks ago I went in to get her up from nap and found poop smeared everywhere!!! She had a really bad rash so I chalked it up to that. It is now a major problem. We are on day three of finding her still with her diaper but her poop taken out and all over the place. I have tried turning her diaper around, taping it, putting a onsie on her during nap time, putting her on the potty before naps, cold shower to "clean" her up, being calm, being very upset, raising my voice, reasoning with her, taking her toys out of her crib, explaining we can get sick from poop, time outs. I am so frustrated and am at a total loss as to how to deal with this. Please if anyone has any suggestions please let me know, I am at the end of my rope.
i would suggest a baby monitor also. You can hear if shes awae doing stuff. It sounds like she may be bored and awake for awhile so is doing something to keep herself occupied. A video baby monitor would REALLY put this to rest.
Use electrical tape around the waist of her diaper, she will not be able to open her diaper.
How about a baby monitor? You can hear her as soon as she is awake and get to her before she gets to the poop?
maybe she has a need to tectorially (is that a word?) explore things. make sure you are giving her many optiosn of finger painting, play dough and other things incase she wants to explore that way... and the poop won't seem as interesting. just an idea. good luck!
My son did the same thing and it is disgusting. I put feetie pajamas on him backwards so he couldn't take his diaper off and it worked. If you turn the feet part it will work and it is not uncomfortable to wear. This worked for us.
I try to change my daughter's diaper as soon as their is a poop in there. My daughter was having the same problem but I think because when she pooped in her diaper is would annoy her. Now that I am changing her diaper as soon as she needs it - even if it is in the middle of a nap we haven't had the problem.
If it is not practical to change her diaper right away for what ever reason - you could try pj's that are all one piece (i.e not separate tops and bottoms) - so she can't "access" the diaper at all.
I put my son in a onesie and overalls. He couldn't undo the clips. It is totally normal phase and will pass. It is totally gross!! She just knows it is fun and like a playdoh she can play with. sending you a great big HUG!!
Put her in a one piece blanket sleeper, zipped up backward. She'll have a heck of a time getting to the poop then.
I had the same thing happen! It was awful! You've gotten some really good advice here, and I wish I had this website when I was going through it!!
Put her in a blanket sleeper with a zipper (one piece) backwards.
I can promise you, she will not get out of that.
One of my boys did that and he was potty training himself....I told him, no that is not nice and disgusting!!! Don't do that again. He did it again and I gently pat his hand and told him that the next time he does that he's going to get a spanking and I think at the time he was not into playdough and it didn't stop him. He did it again the third time and I spanked him and he NEVER did it again. He remembered the spanking. Of course I talked to him after the spanking that (pointing to what he did with that poop) was a NO-NO and we don't do that. Mommy doesn't like that and he didn't do it again. Playdough was not his thing at that the time, but it is his thing now....I don't know why.....but he's an artist now!!! Ha, ha, ha. See if she is an artist!!!
buy feetie pajamas 1 size too big.. put them on backwards zip them up and if you have to safety pin the top so she cant possibly unzip the pajamas..
it is a stage it will go away.n she doesnt understand why you ar mad at her it is fun to paint with poop. your yelling and time outs will not work you just have to prevent her from doing this until she is old enough to understand.
luckily my kids never did this be I babysat for twin boys that would undress each other druing naptime and do poop painting..
