Hi Moms. Not trying to gross anyone out but my daughter just turned 2 yrs old and keeps having a bowel movement during her baths. This has been going on during every bath for almost 2 weeks now. She gets a bath on a daily basis. At first it really scared her, she freaked out and cried. I kept saying it's ok. Now she continually repeats "it's ok, it's ok" and scoots away from it until I clean it up. It seemes to happen regardless of how many times she already has that day or when. It even happened the other day when I gave her a bath after a messy spaghetti lunch, baths are usually before bed time. I assume it may be because the bath relaxes her. Just wondering if any Moms have incountered this to or has any input. One good this about it, I have a very clean bath tub!
Yup! All the time! It makes for a great story, reminiscing on when the other two were always trying to escape from their brother's poop in the tub. No input, they outgrow it.
A friend of mine as 3 children. The youngest always poops in the tub. The others were refusing to take baths with her until they started putting swim diapers on her for her bath.
My neice used to do that. That's exactly what it does. My baby used to be constipation bad and the pedi recommended a nice warm bath before any medical intervention. Maybe try a shower instead? We would tell my baby its "raining" so we gave to hurry and get clean :) its perfectly normal mama!
At our house we called them "red alerts" whoever was on bath duty would call that out and the other would come running to help remove the child, the toys...the poop.
Totally normal and they will out grow it. HUGS!!
Very common...are you able to pop her onto the toilet if you see her in time? :)
I got lucky, m son only ever did that twice--BOTH times at my moms! LOL
Ugh. My son did this several times when I was pregnant and nauseous with #2. So gross. Plus - no crying for him! He wanted to play with it.
He ended up covered in poo before I could get him out.
I wish I had thought to plop him on the potty!
Yes, they outgrow it.
My daughter did this around the 2 year mark for a few months. I just got used to that it was gonna happen and when it did I just stood her up and soaped her up and sprayed her clean with the shower head and took her out. I think the warm bath definitely relaxes them. On the upside my daughter potty trained shortly after this phase.
