Sept 10, 2011
Lots has happened. I should record the story of Isaac's poop before we forget what really happened. Right before Luke was born we decided to try to start potty training Isaac. After about 2 weeks Isaac started peeing in the toilet really really well. He only pooped maybe twice though. He was mostly motivated by us cheering him on and the potty candy (skittles and reeses pieces.) We started putting him in panties and twice he had an accident and peed in his panties and he learned very quickly that you can't pee in them without making a huge wet puddle. So we easily cut our diaper use in half. We loved it! We started planning on getting rid of our extra boxes of his diapers. We would put a diaper on him at night or if we went out just in case he had to poop or we didn't have a toilet near. But then another week went bye without any progress with the poo. He seemed to not have the patience to sit and poop. He wanted off as soon as his pee was done. My parents bought him a toddler toilet and also a new toilet seat to put on top of our big toilet. We started telling isaac no no poo poo in your diaper, poo poo in the toilet! We got after him and he would poop a little in the toilet but mostly still in his diaper. And then something changed. Isaac started to hold in his poops. We think that he thought we meant that poo poo was bad. He really didn't want to poop on the toilet and we wouldn't want him pooping in his diaper and so he just tried to hold it in. He became constipated. He started back tracking and peeing in his diaper again, but we yelled at him for that and he went back to peeing in the toilet. So we had to start buying him more diapers again. When we were in Salt Lake in August Isaac was holding his poops for so long that they stunk so bad when they came out. They were so rotten that I remember walking through the room as my mom and Amy changed his diaper, there was only a poop about as big as a penny in his diaper and I just walked through and jumped in the car and went to do a session at the salt lake Temple. I got out of the car and walked through the conference center parking lot and I could still smell the stench of that little poo on me! It was worse than any poo that anyone you know has ever done!
Anyways, Isaac's foul poop was constantly draining out his butt now and it was giving him a permanent rash. So I went to the pharmacy and they suggested glycerine suppositories. So we did that and it helped getting his backed up problems out. We came back to Houston and we fixed his diet to be very poopy fiber oriented with lots of fruits and vegitables. We stopped yelling at him about pooping and now we just want him to be like Luke and poop it all out in his diaper. He's had about 3 more weeks of constipation but his mood has changed. He now tries to poop, but his body is broken. He tries and tries to poop all the time but only a little ever comes out. It's like the large intestine isn't advancing the poop like it does naturally. But the doctor said he'll grow out of it. So with time he has done better. We've put the toddler toilet in his room and he's tried to poop in it a little. Amy lets him watch movies while he's on the potty. Isaac has had so many rashes that he's come to hate hate hate rash ointment and suppositories. He freaks out so bad, worse than anything in his life. He half fainted once cause he thought Amy was doing a suppository when really she just had desitin. He hates poop cause it makes rashes, and we keep telling him to do a big poo poo cause there's no owie's with those. So he really tries hard, but every time that he gets poo on his butt, he's so afraid of rashes that he stops trying to poop and he asks us to wipe his butt clean. After we do that he goes back to pooping. It's poo a little wipe, poo a little, wipe etc... Doing this is one way to use 8 diapers in one hour. So we stopped that by letting him poop in his panties and since each panty only has a stain of poo we wash it instead of pay for diapers. Some days are really hard on amy cause Isaac will spend 4 hours pooping and asking to be wiped every 20 minutes or more. Our house smells like poop. We really have learned to appreciate Luke as he grunts and fills up his diaper in one big push and then he's good for another 3 hours. Finally about a week ago while talking to my grandma geddes about Isaac's poop problems isaac came up to me saying he pooped and that I had to wash his bum. I checked his bum and said, no poo poo, it was clean and I sent him back to try to poop more. He didn't poo more so we put in in the bath cause he had smelled like poop from about 2 hours of staining his butt with little poops. After I got off the phone with my grandma I went to clean out his toilet and voila! In there was a log about half a foot long and rather wide! Yay! he budged!
Hooray for you! Hooray for me!
Hooray, hooray, The Pooh will soon be free!
Now the time has come for proving
What the diet did for Pooh.
And since we pledged He'd be unwedged,
That's what we're going to do.
He'll be pulled and he'll be tugged,
and eventually unplugged.
We'll have a tug of war
To open Isaac's door.
Think heavage,
think towage
And out the Pooh will goage.
For mind over matter
Has made the Pooh unfatter.
Heave ho! Heave ho!
Heave heave heave heave heave!
Plop!
So since then it's been better. He is probably another 2 months from pooping like a normal boy but at least one poop is a sign that his GI system is working a little. He doesn't have as many rashes and he doesn't stain so much. He still will squat somewhere and only get a tiny out, but it hasn't been an all day 10 times in a row experience any more, and Amy's getting him to do more on the toilet. I'll get another update about it this week cause I'm never home to know the progress. but at least there's a ray of hope.
thanks for reading. I hope that those of you who poop without much problem every day will be a little bit more appreciative of the wonderful gift you've been given.
Isaac with the crocodile
When Isaac saw this one he said, "lion get bambi?"
The first animal we saw was a wolverine
