My dd is a few months over 3 years old, and she's been pee trained for over a year. She knows when she needs to poop and will ask for a diaper--she flat out refuses to poop in the potty. I wish I had advice, but all I have is commiseration. I'm just going with the flow for now. If by age 5 we're still having issues, I might try the "no more diapers" bit. Looking forward to others responses . . .
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I was there last summer! And believe me, I know what stubborn is, LOL!
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Really, for us, we tried so many different things, and the only thing that worked is time. Just had to wait till she was finally ready (of course provide lots of opportunities and rinse out lots of poopy underwear) and then she finally got it. Bribes helped a bit to give her the incentive to at least sit a couple more minutes and try. Also, we read a lot of books on the potty to try and get her to stay on it and get the poop out. But just putting underwear on and expecting that to train her, ha! Okay, it DID help her finally train, but not till 6 months later!
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Even now, she still has some accidents (like 2-3 times a week), but mostly pee ones when she gets so absorbed in playing that she "forgets" to go or just plain waits too long.
So no real advice, just letting you know all you can do is keep trying and wait till you LO is ready. But it DOES happen, and they will NOT go to high school in diapers!
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So no real advice, just letting you know all you can do is keep trying and wait till you LO is ready. But it DOES happen, and they will NOT go to high school in diapers!
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We were right there with you a couple months ago. Ds had been potty trained for a year and still basically refused to poop on the potty. He also refused to wear a diaper, so I cleaned up a lot of poop. Part of it was constipation issues, but after we resolved the constipation we had provide some external motivation to get him on the potty.
Normally I don't go for straight out bribery, but it worked for this and I don't regret it. I told ds that the next time he pooped on the potty we'd go to the toy store and I'd let him pick out a toy. And then I didn't mention it again. And when he pooped on the potty we went to the toy store and he picked something out. I think we made 4 trips to the store total and that was several months ago. He's been pooping on the potty ever since.
Originally Posted by Barbee my ds is pretty good with peeing on the potty. i still have to remind him but he seldom has an accident and always wakes up dry. the problem is pooping on the potty. he just won't do it. i keep hearing how people just decide not to buy diapers anymore and after about a week, it's done. not my son. it's frustrating me. i ask him in intervals if he needs to poop, but only rarely catch it. sometimes he'll sit there, say he doesn't need to go and then five minutes later, i'm cleaning up poopy pants. any suggestions? |
Normally I don't go for straight out bribery, but it worked for this and I don't regret it. I told ds that the next time he pooped on the potty we'd go to the toy store and I'd let him pick out a toy. And then I didn't mention it again. And when he pooped on the potty we went to the toy store and he picked something out. I think we made 4 trips to the store total and that was several months ago. He's been pooping on the potty ever since.
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Sometimes bribes are necessary!
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Just wanted to say though, that he sounds very much on the norm for the pooping spectrum! He'll do it on his own in time!
Originally Posted by Barbee Well I decided to bribe him. So far it's working like a charm and I'm only a little ashamed of myself. |
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