My son potty-trained around 22-23 months. He has been very solidly (by that I just mean not having accidents) trained for about 14 months now (he's 37 months). For the last 6-9 months, he doesn't tell us when he needs to go potty (assuming we're at home)--he just goes. If he poops, he calls us afterwards to come wipe him.
About a month ago, he brought me his pants/underwear and said he had pooped in them and needed clean ones. There was just a tiny bit of poop in them, and then he finished pooping on the potty. I assumed he just guessed wrong about a fart
and didn't think anything of it.
A few days later, it happened again. I thought it was weird, but didn't think much of it. Just cleaned him up and got him clean pants.
Now it's happening pretty much every time he poops. He goes a tiny bit in his underwear--enough to leave a little "streak" in his underwear, but enough that he definitely needs clean underwear (we usually don't need to change his pants. I've asked him why he keeps pooping in his pants, and he says (very matter-of-factly), "Because I'm not potty trained."
My first thought was that perhaps he was wanting a little more attention--his 2.5-year-old cousin is potty-training and getting a lot of attention for it right now, and my 16-month-old daughter pees on the potty a few times a week, and we always make a sort of "big deal" out of it when she does it. But I am really doubting this theory, because he doesn't make a big deal out of it when it happens--and he's not having any peeing accidents. He typically goes and puts the dirty underwear in the diaper pail, finishes pooping on the potty, calls me to wipe him as usual, and then he'll go grab a clean pair of underwear from his room. So he's not maximizing the attention-getting potential of the situation at all, which makes me think he's not doing it for attention.
Any ideas? His poop, for what it's worth, seems normal to me--not particularly loose or anything like that. I've asked him if his tummy hurts, or if he thought he was just going to pass gas when it happened...he just tells me he's "not potty trained."
About a month ago, he brought me his pants/underwear and said he had pooped in them and needed clean ones. There was just a tiny bit of poop in them, and then he finished pooping on the potty. I assumed he just guessed wrong about a fart
and didn't think anything of it.A few days later, it happened again. I thought it was weird, but didn't think much of it. Just cleaned him up and got him clean pants.
Now it's happening pretty much every time he poops. He goes a tiny bit in his underwear--enough to leave a little "streak" in his underwear, but enough that he definitely needs clean underwear (we usually don't need to change his pants. I've asked him why he keeps pooping in his pants, and he says (very matter-of-factly), "Because I'm not potty trained."
My first thought was that perhaps he was wanting a little more attention--his 2.5-year-old cousin is potty-training and getting a lot of attention for it right now, and my 16-month-old daughter pees on the potty a few times a week, and we always make a sort of "big deal" out of it when she does it. But I am really doubting this theory, because he doesn't make a big deal out of it when it happens--and he's not having any peeing accidents. He typically goes and puts the dirty underwear in the diaper pail, finishes pooping on the potty, calls me to wipe him as usual, and then he'll go grab a clean pair of underwear from his room. So he's not maximizing the attention-getting potential of the situation at all, which makes me think he's not doing it for attention.
Any ideas? His poop, for what it's worth, seems normal to me--not particularly loose or anything like that. I've asked him if his tummy hurts, or if he thought he was just going to pass gas when it happened...he just tells me he's "not potty trained."
ITA- it sounds like he's engaged in an activity and just doesn't want to stop. DD did this (with peeing) forever..... It'll 'pass' 
