A mum named Tiffany has been praised as a genius for her unusual yet effective way to get her nine month old baby Zoe to poo after having been constipated for 24 hours – and people are impressed
Staying on top of your children’s toilet habits might not be the most glamourous parts of parenthood, but it’s still important to keep track of to help spot any abnormal behaviour.
While you might be happy at first to see that your baby’s nappy isn’t filled with poo, it can soon become worrying if they go too long without emptying their bowels. According to the NHS, it’s quite common for babies to get constipated, especially if they’ve just started having formula. They go on to say that you should contact your GP if your baby hasn’t pooped for 2-3 days. Until then, you might try your hands at different methods to get your baby to do a poo.
Taking to Instagram, one mum named Tiffany Paltauf has shared her simple hack in how she manage to get her nine month old baby Zoey to poo without having to make a visit to the doctor.
In the video, Tiffany is seen sitting in the backseat of her car, next to Zoey while her husband Joe is driving. Tiffany then went on to share how the drive was part of getting her daughter to poo.
“Our daughter has not gone to the bathroom in over 24 hours, so naturally we put her in a really cute outfit and we’re gonna drive to somewhere public to see if she will take a dump,” Tiffany said at the start of her video before she laughed.
“I heard some squirming and some violent grunts,” she said in her next clip as she looked down at the baby sitting in her chair next to her in the car. “So I think what we’re doing is working.”
She then started filming again when the baby had started doing more grunting noises, clearly trying to fill up her nappy
“She’s definitely pushing poop out,” she told Joe, who was driving.
As they later got out of the car as they reached their destination, the parents were eager to see if their trick had worked. Tiffany went to get Zoey out of the car and made sure to point out the adorable floral outfit she was wearing, as she said that wearing an extra nice and cute outfit was a crucial step with this method.
Joe then bends down to smell whether or not Zoe had done a poo, which she clearly had when seeing him flinch and cough back due to the smell.
“Well at least she got it out now,” Tiffany said before telling her viewers: “Works like a charm every single time. You gotta put them in a really cute outfit, I’m talking adorable, and you gotta drive somewhere public. Works every time.”
People soon took to the comment section of the video to praise Tiffany for her cleaver method, with one viewer saying: “….I wish I would have known that when mine was still a baby.”
“It’s definitely a cute outfit that made it work! They ruin every new/cute fit!” a second person said, while a third wrote: “It’s true, my daughter does it on the way to drop off brother as daycare constantly.”
