JFF- Who Else Here Has a Kid Who....

I hope you don't mind if I laugh - it's so funny the way you tell it! (But not funny when you're going through it!)

My son had to poop in a plastic bag with paper towels in it, in the back seat floor of the minivan while I was driving on a turnpike that had NO WHERE to pull over. It was in 5:00 traffic. He had just turned 5 and he was in misery. My mom was in the passenger seat and helped him. It stank SO BAD, even with the bag tied shut, that we attached the bag to the passenger side view mirror and hung it outside the window, to give us some relief until we got off the turnpike and found a rest stop.

Honestly, sometimes I think that one day I will have to wear Depends to go on a long trip when I am old and gray, if I have to travel on turnpikes!!

Hope your little guy gets on a new schedule for you soon!

D.

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Yes. When I first adopted my daughter, I had to provide 4 vials of stool samples for her (age 2). I figured I'd get if from her diap, no prob. We were to take them in 3 days later. The kid did not have a poopy diap for 3 days. Here I was, a new mother, about to go to the pediatrician and go "I've got nothin'" when my daughter had a diaper blowout on our way out the door. So, here I collected 4 vials, gagging and choking as my daughter giggled, and was late for the appt due to the diaper blowout and subsequent collection process.

Otherwise, she generally has to poop anytime we're out at a restaurant and has a tendency to announce it in her loudest possible voice. I keep trying to teach her that it doesn't need to be announced and is not something people at a meal want to hear about it, but 4 yr olds tend to find this fascinating conversation.

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I have one that seems to poop several times a day, so his pooping is always interupting something!

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My daughter had a thing for restaurants when she was first potty trained. Not kidding, the food would hit the table and she had to go!

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My son always HAS to go when we have to leave the house. It can be different times. It doesn't matter. The more important the event......wham! He used to be more of a schedule time but like life......schedules can change. ha ha

I've learned to "watch" for it.

Sometimes he has to work at it like a typical male. That's who they invented "reading on the pot" for......men. I don't have time to read on there. :) Nature calls. I go in & get the business done that I walked in there to do and am done. Bam. :)

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Abbie:

My boys are on a "schedule" - it's hilarious!! When we are traveling - we can guarantee at a certain time, my youngest will say "I need to go to the bathroom!!!"

Aren't kids fun?!?!?!

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The classic time for this is usually in the middle of winter when they are JUST bundled up to go play out in the snow.
Off come the scarf, mittens, snow boots, snow pants, jacket.
Dash to the bathroom.
Then back on with everything and FINALLY head out for sledding or to build a snowman.

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My baby poops probably 4-6 times a day. Why can't he just let it all out in 2-3 bursts? He almost ALWAYS has one right before we leave to drop my oldest at school. He usually has one while we are grocery shopping, and is guaranteed to have one after every nap, as well as after breakfast and dinner.

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My daughter is 4 and sometimes ends up having to poop after getting in the tub for a bath. So she has to come out dripping wet, sit on the potty, get wiped up and then back in the tub. That is, when she's managed to make it out of the tub in time. :(

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Oh yah, kids do that all the time.

But my son, tends to do it after he eats. Probably about an hour later. But well, we can't always time our days according to that.
Oh well.

Both my kids have a pooping pattern. Either in the morning or afternoon after lunch etc.

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Ha ha! We took my son to FL a couple years ago. At the time he was constipated quite often and would only go every few days. But he went on the plane trip there, and the plane trip on the way back! Ugh...such a pain to change diapers in those little bathrooms!

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Yes... I kid you not every time we are in Walmart, my 4yo has to poop... It's so nerve wrecking.. I dnt know what it is about Walmart.. and my newborn, 1 month. Always seems to have a poopy pamper in Walmart also...

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It never fails my oldest (4.5) has to go when we're at this one (and only) park where the bathrooms are in timbuktu and honestly not worth hikingvtoo. Ive gotten to the point I just bring a diaper for him. Put it on him when he says he has to go, then change him like a baby. I have absolutely no idea why it's this one random park. It's become a laughing joke between my girlfriend and I--- she always reminds me not to forget his dipe.

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LOL! My son is 14 months and for the last 4-5 months he waits until we get home. There have been times we've been gone for 4 hours, we get home, and he poops within minutes.

While it sure is handy, I worry if he's gonna be one of those kids who refuses to poop in public.

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My daughter isn't potty trained yet, we tried but she didnt take to it. She's 21 months and she used to poop every afternoon between 1-2. Today we went to the city splash pad with our playgroup.. I brought 2 little swimmers. She pooped 4 times!!! I had to borrow little swimmers lol.

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I think....

BRB - gotta go!

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