after she's gone #2.

the last few days, i've looked into the monitor and seen DD taking off her diaper during her nap. it was totally random and i laughed, then put a cloth diaper on her with snaps (she took off disposables first). two days ago, i discovered that she had actually pooped, then took it off during her nap. gross, but it didn't get anywhere.

THEN she was being fussy about an hour after we put her to bed that same day and i had DH check on her because that usually means she pooped. DH smelled it immediately but she had actually gone in her diaper and smeared it everywhere in her crib, on her, on DH. it was HORRIBLE!

we bathed her, cleaned everything and put her in a onesie and pants so she couldn't access her diaper (she was in a tee and diaper only previously because it's so hot in our house).

we had another day where she was reaching in her diaper, etc, but i locked it down during nap again. then this morning, same thing: reached in her diaper (through the top this time with 2-piece pjs) and poop everywhere.

please tell me this is a phase and tell me what i can do to fix this. i NEVER thought my kid would smear poop everywhere (i've heard of it, but didn't think it was a real thing) and now i'm terrified of walking into her room and finding poop everywhere.

(i even looked this morning on the monitor when she was fussing around, but the poop did not show up, so i left her since it was an hour before her normal wake up.)

ETA: she's 18 months, sits on her own potty for fun, but doesn't go, and can sometimes accurately tell us if she's gone poop if we ask her and sign. i asked her to tell me when she goes poop next time, but that's gonna take a while, i think.