doggone it! I missed another one! Can you relate?

Ah, the stealth nursing poop. I feel your pain.

Nursing really is the time of poop misses for us. If I *know* he has to poop but he refuses to do so when he's not nursing, I'll nurse him on the potty. I don't really like it, I'll be honest, but I recently found a way to make it pretty comfortable, and its better than cleaning poop off his butt. But that's only if I know he has to go.

If he was tensing up and grunting, then that's your signal! Chances are he started it earlier, maybe not as obviously, and built up to what you noticed, and you were just distracted. Or...he may have pooped on the way to the bathroom. I have definately missed poops where I hear him poop and then I look down and realize he's just looking up at me, unlatched...I just wasn't paying attention!

And if you're not getting signals, he just may not be signalling. That's entirely possible. Just keep it up, DS didn't start signalling until we had been ECing for 6-8 weeks or so. And then it was just out of the blue, but entirely obvious.

Oh, and poopy diapers are just too gross now. I am not a fan.

Too cute that he loves his pottying. And if nursing while pottying is too gross, from what I've read that won't be a problem soon anyway, as they stop pooping while eating. And really, I wouldn't nurse while pottying if I didn't know he had to poop either. It's not entirely the best situation, but it works how it has to if that's what you want to do. Luckly, we only have potty issues while nursing with poop, and not that frequently, so its kind of a non-issue most of the time.

Sounds like your communication is going great, and I'm sure you'll be catching it all in no time if he likes it so much!

On a related tangent, I tried to potty DS at the doctors office today into a prefold and he just looked up at me like, "Silly Mommy, this isn't a potty!" and decided to hold it until we got home. Just think of all the poops people who aren't ECing are cleaning up, and you'll feel better about the few that you have to!

Hey there, GranolaLight,

Your baby's still young, 3-4 months old, right? The beauty of starting with small babes is that they pee and poop sooo much, you're bound to catch SOMETHING and thus boost your confidence!

Misses are part of the game, just don't worry yourself silly over it. What matters is that you're making the effort to give baby a chance not to soil himself while pee/pooping.

I had flashbacks of those stealth poos while reading this thread. Eventually, DD would be able to hold off dumping everything into her dipe, and let me rush over to the toilet once the "warning shot" had been fired. Now, she consistently does all poops and over 50% of pees in her potty.

My DD doesn't signal to me. I just know her rhythm. It doesn't feel like mommy-baby ESP. Sometimes, it boils down to giving her a pottytunity every hour or when I feel her squirmy for a #2.

Good luck and with continued effort you'll eventually have fewer misses!

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On the pooping while nursing thing - we had our first poop while nursing in a long time on the plane yesterday - big time mess. Usually I notice her wriggling around and take her to poop (we use to have to alternate nursing and poop tries a couple times) but what with her fussing because of everything else... One thing that helped us establish a nurse-to-poop timing was having the potty right next to where I was sitting, and her on a pre-fold. (At the time I didn't have a belt, so I just kinda tried to hold it in place - belt is much safer.) That way I could do the poop check really quickly. After a couple weeks I got much better at timing when to pop her off, and now she's learned to wait as well, up to 5 minutes. (We did catch a second really big poo later in the flight this way - nothing like poop clean-up for motivation )

And yes, while learning how to get the timing right we had poop on me, on her, on the couch, on the floor, on my feet, on the diaper... but not on the boppy pillow! I think it's the only thing she missed...