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potty training and pooping

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Hello all! I have a 3 year old and we started potty training. A week ago we started underwear and he is doing really great. Hardly any accidents, except the pooping. I know we just started but someone please reassure me that he will get the hang of pooping in the potty! Right now he just poops in his underwear, he usually tells me right away so I can change him but I want to be sure he isn't going to get comfortable with it. How long did it take for you to poop train?
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  • sunnydays99sunnydays99 member

    It took DS 2 weeks to start pooping in the potty instead of in his underwear.  I think it would have been a bit sooner if I had clued in to what he needed...which was privacy!

    I found out by accident that DS wanted to be alone to poop.  He would always say poop and run to the bathroom.  I'd get him set up and sit with him and he'd immediately say "all done" and run away.  A few minutes later he'd poop in his underwear...it was so frustrating!!  One day he had a pee accident so I stripped him down and put him in the bathroom.  I closed the door so that he wouldn't run through the pee and make more of a mess.  2 minutes later when I opened the door he had pooped in the potty! 

    So, I started just leaving him naked during his normal poop times and he would discreetly go to the bathroom on his own and poop.  Now that he's comfortable with it, he'll tell us and he's okay if we are in the room (but we usually leave anyways).

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  • jlw2505jlw2505 member
    Pooping in the potty is really scary for a lot of kids.  My older DD never had an issue but my younger DD was a nightmare when it came to pooping in the potty.  She was ready to pee train at 16 months, we started at around 2 1/2 and she did great for pee but horrible for poop.  After about 2 months, I put her into pull-ups and she kept doing really well with pee but horrible for poop.  We tried again that winter but again, no luck.  Finally, a few weeks before her 3rd birthday, she finally pooped in the potty and we have not looked back since.  I think if we had waited for everything until she was older, it would have gone a lot faster but she really wanted to be in big girl undies like her big sis but she was just so afraid of the whole poop thing and she was getting herself constapted and it was a mess.
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  • LucyPevensieLucyPevensie member

    My just over 3 year old is doing GREAT with peeing in the potty but kept pooping in his underpants.  Finally - we worked out that he can ask me for a pull-up if he feels like he has to poop - I will quickly provide one - and then I am told "go!!" so he can privately poop in his pull-up.  Then when he's done I clean him up and put him back in his underpants.

    He was pooping in the potty at first and doing well actually - but once when I was out of the room he, well, picked it up and starting mushing it around - when I came back he'd made a big mess.  I did not yell at him or punish him but he knew I was not happy and I think it freaked him out (he watched me clean it up for a while and I was less than thrilled) - and pooping in the potty went out the window and that's when he started pooping in the underpants.  So for now - we've worked out the pull-up thing and I'm fine with it.  I know he'll get back on the potty for poops at some point, he just has to feel ready again.  But yeah, the poop thing, it's complicated!

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  • kes77kes77
    For us the poop training to a little longer than the pee training.  Don't give up hope - we just kept trying and reinforcing DD's attempts.  When we least expected it she finally did it!  I almost felt like just when we were about to give up she started doing it.  Hang in there and keep encouraging your 3 year old, he'll get it eventually!  :)
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  • ChubbyCheekiesMomChubbyCheekiesMom
    Did you do a rewards system with the training?  We did a sticker chart with DS, he got 1 sticker for pee and 2 stickers for a poop.  1 would go on his chart, and the other would go on his shirt.  It worked great for him because he LOVES stickers.  He hasn't had an accident poop wise since we started.  He actually never went poop anywhere but the toilet. Whatever drives your son, whether it be stickers, candy or extra time doing something try that.  I'm not talking like a candy bar or anything, but some people put a jar of M&M's in the bathroom and give their kids one after they poop.  Make it exciting for him, we also did the potty dance for a while too.  If he seems afraid of going poop on the toilet talk to him about where it goes, I know that sounds weird but that will help.  We compare it to Finding nemo, the poop goes to the ocean (While I know it goes the sewer this works better).  We also use to say goodbye to the poop. 
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