Ds having potty accidents

[ILoveMyBabyBird]

Ds has been potty trained for over 1 1/2 years, he is now a bit over 4 1/2 and this past week he has been having 1-2 accidents a day, both pee and bowel movement accidents. Normally he starts to go #2 on himself and either he catches it or I do and he finishes on the toilet, but this is very out of character for him. I recently took away his computer game time because he was becoming to engrossed in it, and the potty accidents started just after that. I am also 35 weeks pregnant and have been playing baby with ds with his stuffed animals and we have been clothing and diapering them when he wants, could this be a sign of regression? He also is starting K in the fall and just had K roundup so he has had a lot of big changes lately so perhaps that is the reason for the accidents? How should I handle the situation? I have asked him why he has accidents but he doesn't give a reason, he is normally playing with toys when it happens and when I have caught him before he goes he says he doesn't need to go, but i have him go anyway and then he does, it is as if he doesn't want to go or stop what he is doing to go, which i could understand if he was still potty training, but he has literally not had an accident since he trained up until these past couple weeks...

[Neera]

That does seem like a long time. No advice. I am here because of the same issue with dd. She got trained last Nov. though and has been having poop accidents since a few weeks. She lets out just a little though and then cries when we throw out her underwear. But, continues to do it nevertheless. She really doesn't have any pee accidents but had one last month.

[Marsupialmom]

Please have your son checked out by a doctor.  

My son had encoprisis.

http://www.askdrsears.com/html/8/T086200.asp

http://www.askdrsears.com/html/8/T086100.asp

He had chronic constipation and that causes mix signals.  He did not have pee accidents but it is not unheard of for that to happen because of the pressure put on the bladder. 

He would have several little accidents through out the day then unload.  It came to the point he would go multiple days with multiple accidents then have a stop the toliet poop once a week to 10 days.  The softer stuff was working around the harder stuff :(  

I had bad medical doctors that told me it was in his head.  It wasn't because the constipation was so long his bowel were stretch and not communicating right. 

We put him on a stool softner for a LONG time and SLOWLY weaned him off because his bowels were messed up.  But we had to do other things also.  Encouraging him to sit on the potty right after his meals (some people do better waiting 5-10minutes before heading to the potty).  We made sure he was watered throughout the day.  We eliminated, then sparcely added things on the BRAT (Bananas, Rice, Apple, Toast) Diet.  My son was getting to much fiber -- and not all fiber is friendly.  The fibers from the BRAT diet are often constipating.  

Please do not punish him.