Having trouble with #2 and need advice.

MrsBalletStar05

DS#1 has been in training pants since the week after we brought home the new baby.  All of a sudden once the baby came, he started peeing in the potty and asking to go himself.  As the months went along, he would go anywhere from 1-4 times a day on the toilet, but would still pee in his training pants a few times as well, and would ALWAYS poop in them.

I decided to get hard core on this potty training business this week.  The peeing as been going pretty well, as I expected.  I put him in underwear and he only has one or two little accidents a day (sometimes he just waits too long and piddles a little before running to the potty).  And he does not wet himself at night.  The pooping however......he still has not gone in the toilet at all.  When he poops himself he pretty much doesn't notice or care what-so-ever. 

What should I do?  Am I just destined to have him in training pants for several more months until he figures out the pooping thing?   Should I keep him in undies and clean up his poop every. single. time??  Is he just not ready at all?  It seems strange to me and I just don't know what to do because he does so well with peeing and with not going over night but could care less about pooping in the potty. 

MrsBalletStar05

wow...sorry that was so long :-(

kmc217

I was hoping you'd have gotten some replies... I'm in the same boat with DD. She is doing great about pee all day, usually she wears pull ups and doesn't have any accidents at all. She still wakes up soaked in the morning but I can deal with that. However, she almost never poops on the potty and if she does, I'm pretty sure it's by accident. I can have her on the potty to pee and she will and then 5 minutes after she's off, she'll poop in her pull up and come ask to be changed. UGH.

aclearyusa

I had the exact same trouble.  The pediatrician said she is just not ready.  He thought we should put her back in pull ups.  She still pees on the potty, but still hasn't pooped.  She has been completely potty trained (as far as peeing) for about 4 months.  He told us the more we push the longer it may take.  I hated to put her back in diapers, but I think he was right.

macaroni1979

So this might be completely flameworthy, but I mostly used bribery

We are on our third day of pooping on the potty and I think she is going to stick with it. When we started pt'ing, I let her have 2 jellybeans, and told her she could have 4, if she pooped on the potty. Two weeks later, she decided she wanted to do it. She makes me hold her hand and as she is going, I dance and cheer her on. She loves it and asks me to do more. I do some crazy singing to go with it and turn in circles, but hey, it has worked for us. The first time, I let her hold the bag of jellybeans and look at them, to try and kind of get her excited about it. Today, it was like no big deal to her. She said she had to poop, asked me to dance and that was it, she did it. The last few weeks, when I was changing her diaper, I would tell her "ewwww, gross, stinky." And recently, she had been asking to see it (gross, I know.) I told her the only way she could see it was to do it in the potty. So I also used that as bribery! Good luck!