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Won't Poop On Potty
I have been potty training my 3 year old son for the past 3 days and he is doing GREAT. He pees all of the time on the potty but won't poop. He doesn't want to wear a pull-up either so it is not like he could just go in that. He just wants to wear his big boy underwear but is holding it in. I am worried he is going to make himself sick...any suggestions??? Is this normal???
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Re: Won't Poop On Potty
I've heard of kids doing that. Mine doesn't/hasn't yet.
I'm told that it's best not to make a big deal out of it. Just to mention it when they sit on the toilet.
I would suggest buying a cloth pull up. (I know kushies makes them). Just in case.
You might want to increase his fiber a bit too, that way, he might just "fart" it out (gross, I know).
Good luck.
we too have been potty training for the past 3 days and no poop either!
he started having "thick" poops a few months ago and we tried miralax to help. so i gave him some this morning, however, it wasn't working. so we got children's suppositories and we gave him one tonight and w/in 15min he had to go! he actually cried when it came out b/c it was big. sorry probably way TMI but you may not want him to hold it in there too long. and btw, we tried increasing fiber and thats not even working for our DS. argh.
and DS also got sick and actually threw up a few weeks back from not going pooh.
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GL i hope soemthing helps.
If you're open to it, chocolate totally worked for us. I showed her a box of x-day chocolates and told her she got to pick whichever one she wanted when she pooped in the potty. Within the hour she did it and stayed there almost 15 minutes to get it done. She was determined! after that small box was gone we switched to 2 m&ms every time she does it which works great. Every once and a while she gets distracted and forgets to ask for them which is fine with me. I will probably discontinue it totally when the bag is gone.