Okay so when she’s 15 years old, she’ll probably hate me for writing this post. But when she’s 15 it will be so far back in the archives she’ll never see it!
It started with cheese, but ended with a scream! I was on a video chat with my parents showing them how much the kids have grown when my daughter yelled out a scream I have never heard. Immediately I sign off with the parents and go see what was wrong. I get to the bathroom and it was very obvious she had pooped. I check the toilet there is nothing there. Her poop was stuck. I had no idea what to do, she’s screaming and in some serious distress. We can only imagine the pain, but convincing a 2 year old that it will go away if she pushes it out is next to impossible.
I remember a friend of ours experienced the same problem, I called her but she wasn’t there. M is now refusing to stay on the toilet so I slip on a pull up, but the poop is still stuck and she’s still screaming. She’s on the floor wailing while I balance my son in one hand and consoling her with the other.
My husband finally comes home and we feed her grapes to help her get it out. But nothing happens. She is starting to get hungry again; constipation and hunger just don’t mix so this upsets her even more.
I offer her a new movie, but she would rather watch Caillou. We finally get a hold of our friend who tells me what I was expecting; we are going to have to go in. I try and convince Dad to man up and do what needs to be done. But he is convinced there must be a better way.
She’s much calmer so we decide to give the toilet one more try, which of course brings on more tears. So I grab the latex gloves and I’m about to do, what only a mom can do when it finally pops out! Thank God!
What did we learn from the day the poop got stuck? Cheese is not your butt’s best friend.
Funny, but not funny. You know what I mean. This happened to my daughter when she was like 8 months old (she’s eight now). I called the hospital freaking out and the nurse told me over the phone I was going to have to pull it out. What I essentially did was wipe it out, with the diaper she was wearing… It was so awful but the moment it was out she stopped screaming. So yeah, moms gotta do things they never imagined they’d ever have to do!!! Men are such wimps when it comes to that stuff!