We started DS on the potty at 11 months and he has had varying success over the years. He now will almost always use the potty for pee if naked and will even stop himself after he starts peeing in underwear, announce that he peed in his underwear and wait for us to help get his underwear off so he can finish in the potty (with our encouragement). This later part is new this year. Last summer he was peeing really well when naked and then after a few weeks (?) stopped bothering with the potty and just peed wherever he was. So, he's made a tiny bit of progress this year.
However, he has only pooped in the potty 5-10 times in his life and clearly doesn't like to. When naked he normally will wait to poop until a diaper is put back on him and if this doesn't happen until nap or night-time, he will have sleep problems because he needs to poop or does poop after being put down. He poops at least once a day, usually 2-3 times and sometimes 4-5 times. We considered just putting him in underwear all the time, but the pooping is the issue. I don't mind bringing extra clothes and dealing with pee accidents but don't really want to deal with poopy underwear on the go or poop falling out of underwear in public places or withholding poop, all of which seem very likely.
We are expecting a new baby at the end of August and it sure would be nice not to be dealing with cloth diapering two at once. Any suggestions on what we can do to encourage him now without regretting it because it's too hard on us or him? We're not into bribery parenting so that doesn't really feel right. What else can work? He usually tells us that he wants diapers still and doesn't seem to have any plan of getting out of them even though his friends are more and more out of them.
However, he has only pooped in the potty 5-10 times in his life and clearly doesn't like to. When naked he normally will wait to poop until a diaper is put back on him and if this doesn't happen until nap or night-time, he will have sleep problems because he needs to poop or does poop after being put down. He poops at least once a day, usually 2-3 times and sometimes 4-5 times. We considered just putting him in underwear all the time, but the pooping is the issue. I don't mind bringing extra clothes and dealing with pee accidents but don't really want to deal with poopy underwear on the go or poop falling out of underwear in public places or withholding poop, all of which seem very likely.
We are expecting a new baby at the end of August and it sure would be nice not to be dealing with cloth diapering two at once. Any suggestions on what we can do to encourage him now without regretting it because it's too hard on us or him? We're not into bribery parenting so that doesn't really feel right. What else can work? He usually tells us that he wants diapers still and doesn't seem to have any plan of getting out of them even though his friends are more and more out of them.
