I have a 17 month old that I've been doing EC since around 6 months. He refused to poop in a diaper since birth, so we've been doing the poop thing since birth, and around 6 months started taking him to the toilet for it. And around 10 months started with peeing. He has been doing splendidly (my oldest, we started EC/PT when he was 20 months, he was trained at 22 months, fully).
He was even wearing underwear for the last few weeks, no problems. He would at first sign potty from around 11 months, and aroudn 13 months started saying potty, or poopy, and if it had been a while I would jsut take him to pee. No problem, dry underwear all day, with a cloth diaper at bedtime.
So these last two days, he REFUSES to poop in the toilet. He'll tell me when he has to pee, but when he needs to poop he'll hide and start in his pants and I'll see him and say 'lets go to the potty' and that is when the meltdown starts. HE'll say 'no, no poopy' and I'll take him in there and he'll say 'no potty, no poopy' and whatever is in his pants I'll put in the toilet, set him up there, and he'll lean down on my shoulder and say 'no poopy, no poopy' and he'll literally suck it back in and not go, he'll hold it.
I'm at a loss. He hasn't had any diarrhea, sore bum, nothing bad or out of the ordinary has happened in the last week that would have caused this. THeo nly thing we did different was a on Monday he wore a disposable to a friends house, we were going for a couple hours and I hadn't done the wash the night before, it was an impromptu trip. But he went poop that afternoon, so it couldn't have been that, this just started on Weds, Thurs, and today.
I just don't know what to do. I odn't want to traumatize him or make him sit if he doens't want to. We've tried blowing bubbles for him, and he'll sit for that, he loves bubbles, but he doesn't want to poop on the toilet.
So after all that, anyone have any advice? Is this a little strike, something to just ride out and keep working on it?
He was even wearing underwear for the last few weeks, no problems. He would at first sign potty from around 11 months, and aroudn 13 months started saying potty, or poopy, and if it had been a while I would jsut take him to pee. No problem, dry underwear all day, with a cloth diaper at bedtime.
So these last two days, he REFUSES to poop in the toilet. He'll tell me when he has to pee, but when he needs to poop he'll hide and start in his pants and I'll see him and say 'lets go to the potty' and that is when the meltdown starts. HE'll say 'no, no poopy' and I'll take him in there and he'll say 'no potty, no poopy' and whatever is in his pants I'll put in the toilet, set him up there, and he'll lean down on my shoulder and say 'no poopy, no poopy' and he'll literally suck it back in and not go, he'll hold it.
I'm at a loss. He hasn't had any diarrhea, sore bum, nothing bad or out of the ordinary has happened in the last week that would have caused this. THeo nly thing we did different was a on Monday he wore a disposable to a friends house, we were going for a couple hours and I hadn't done the wash the night before, it was an impromptu trip. But he went poop that afternoon, so it couldn't have been that, this just started on Weds, Thurs, and today.
I just don't know what to do. I odn't want to traumatize him or make him sit if he doens't want to. We've tried blowing bubbles for him, and he'll sit for that, he loves bubbles, but he doesn't want to poop on the toilet.
So after all that, anyone have any advice? Is this a little strike, something to just ride out and keep working on it?
