Toddler potty training issue.

niknak1128

I posted a while ago about this but I just need some.. any..advice because I have no idea what else to do!!  This has been happening since Olivia was born. 

1st time- pooped in his underwear. We thought it was an accident, tried not to make him feel ashamed, emphasized the potty, took him to the potty etc. 

2nd time- didn't really poop in his pants but started to and had to be cleaned up. This time we scolded him, emphasized the potty, took him to the potty.  DH made him sit on the potty until he went poop. (Because we cleaned him up FOUR Times that day for half pooping himself).

3rd time- he literally stood up after getting out of the bath and pooped on the floor! Cleaned it up, time out.  

4th time- he was standing to pee in the morning when we were getting ready to go to preschool.. poops on the floor while standing to pee. Scolded him, tried to make him clean it up but he stood there and cried so long that I finally had to because we were going to be late for school.

5th time- today. He's standing to pee and same thing.. poops on the floor! Seriously!!!???  I sat him on the potty, gave him a time out.

Let me just say that he has been potty trained for ONE year. He knows how to poop on the potty and he's not yet peed himself.. only poop.  He also hasn't done this anywhere else. He uses the potty at school just fine. He's fine at all the grandparents house.

We've been consistently disciplining him for this because clearly it's behavioral.  Secondly, it's not like we don't pay attention to him or spend time with him that's just for him or make sure that we include him on things.  I try to pretend that I need his help througout the day.. can he get me a diaper... can he watch his baby sister for a second while mommy goes potty.. all of these things he seems happy to do. Daddy comes home and spends time with him almost every single day. Mommy spends time with only him almost every single morning before the baby wakes up.  he still gets cuddled.. he still gets kissed.. hugged.. told I love you.. it's not like we sit him in a corner and ignore him.  

Any ideas? I have no idea how to get him to stop doing this!!  

WearingRed

https://babyparenting.about.com/cs/pottytraining/f/ptregression.htm

https://totalpottytraining.com/pottytrainingregression/

Both good articles on regression.

Sonadora

I would definitely think regression. Even if you give him plenty of attention, he probably subconsciously feels the baby is getting more. It's a big adjustment.

I would not recommend punishment, I don't think that's a great tactic for toilet issues.

Perhaps just make a new rule that you sit to go to the toilet, whether it's "just" going to be pee (since he's clearly got something going on in the poo department).  And lots of praise when he does it like he's supposed to.