Only doing #2 when napping or at bed time (in pull up)

anitaflora

HI all,

I'm a pretty new bumpie but I've been over on TTGP for a few months as we are trying for a second baby.  

But I need some potty training advice!  Great that there's a whole board devoted to this topic!

DS is 25 months and he is now urinating in the potty on a regular basis.  Not perfect of course but he's doing really well and has been for a while now, even when we're not at home.  When we first started he pooped on the potty fine!  That was a great surprise! Then he started to slowly get upset about it - I can't for the life of me figure out what we were doing that may have contributed to this.  We were giving hims tons of praise and kept reassuring him that it was okay, that we knew it might feel funny  but "everybody poops" etc.  Anyway, he just became resistant about it and would get really upset - not angry but like just scared I think.  It's now to the point, which has been happening for about 3 weeks, that he ONLY goes poop when he's napping or at night time.  Which are times when we have still been allowing him to have a pull up on.  He seems to very clearly get that pee/poop only goes in the potty or pull up and not in underwear.  But I don't know how to successfully get him to be pooping on the potty again.  

Today I decided to try to put him down for his nap with just underwear.  Since he understands that concept, I am hoping he will tell me when/if he needs to go during his nap time.  He went just before I put him down and will start including that in his regular nap time routine.  

I just don't know if I'm going about this the right way or if anyone else out there has had this problem!  Please let me know if anyone out there has had this happen!  I feel like we are so close to really having the potty training take off but this is our obstacle.   

And just to give a little more info, he has both pooped and urinated on the "big potty" and "tiny potty" - we just offer him to choose which he wants to use and has been that way since the beginning a few months ago.  So I'm really happy and lucky he doesn't seem to care which potty he's using.  Also, we have been doing a reward chart idea which seems to work great except that we've changed it now to him only getting a stamp when he goes poop on the potty and since he hasn't been doing that it's been a long, long time since he's gotten a stamp.

Sorry for the long post and thanks in advance for any responses!!