Another PL question.

[kimmypoo]

I think we are just about done as far as pee is concerned, but poo is another issue. A couple weeks ago, DD pulled off her diaper, sat on the potty, and peed and pooped all by herself. Well, since then, she's been doing really well letting us know when she needs to pee. But for poop, she'll just go in her pants and then tell us about it. Or she'll tell us and when we put her on the potty, she hops on and off the potty several times until we put her diaper (or trainers or panties) back on and then she'll poop in them. Any advice? TIA.

[kirstenb]

DS did the exact same thing every day for three months after he was potty trained before he finally pooped on the toilet. He would poop in his pants, or if he was having naked time he would beg me for underwear or a diaper. I would try putting him on the potty right away but he wouldn't poop until he had on his underwear. There wasn't one thing that I did that made him poop in the potty. I didn't make a big deal about it at all when I cleaned him up, and if I could tell he was about to poop I would put him the toilet for as long as he would sit on there before I gave him underwear. One day he was finally ready to do it and has been doing it ever since! All I can say is don't make it a huge deal, she will do it when she is ready. Just keep putting her on the potty.

[majormajor]

my younger DD was the same way, and then all of a sudden she started telling me and going on the potty. i don't know what changed or clicked, but it just did from one day to the next. i wondered if it was related to the fact that she always pooped standing up, so maybe sitting while she pooped was weird for her.
every once in a while i did tell her that when she was ready, she could poop on the potty just like she peed on the potty, but that was it. i didn't want her to feel any pressure. i have friends who's kids were/are big withholders, and i wanted to do my best to never get in that situation.

[redpajama]

I would just try to be patient. My son was the same way. He was about 22 months old, and got the peeing thing down in just a few days, but it was ~3 weeks before he would poop in the potty.

What ended up working for us was that we would watch for him to go off by himself (to poop) and then we took him to the toilet. The first time it happened, he was done, but the poop was sort of stuck (gross, sorry) to him, so I just set him up on the potty so he could feel it fall off of him into the potty. The next day, I caught him before he was finished, and he finished pooping in the potty. Once he did that, he was all set--like once he did it he realized it wasn't so bad.

It'll come. Just be patient.