STM's - Potty training question.

danandkam · March 2014

How did you get your kids to poop in the toilet? DD1 (2 yrs 8 mos old) is wearing panties all day and staying dry. She has been doing this for about 2 months now. We put a pull up on her at naptime and at night. Sometimes she is dry when she wakes up and sometimes she is not. For a few weeks after we first started potty training she had been pooping in the toilet every day, but now she refuses and has been going in her pull up at night. How do I get her to stop doing this or should I just let her keep doing this until she is ready on her own?

bkeane619 · March 2014

Potty training is the worst. We just started our 2nd attempt at it yesterday. He's the same age. I have no advice really. Just feeling the pain.

babydoll22308 · March 2014

Potty training is the WORST part of parenting so far. DD1 is SO stubborn. She did great at first, got her reward then regressed. She is a smart little bugger. After 9 months she FINALLY is accident free during day and nap. Night time is something we have to work on but I am dreading it.

jennlin · March 2014

I'm afraid to say something that will curse me so I'm homering into the bushes here.

acethebase · March 2014

I have to say that pooping is the worst part of it IMO. DS1 still has issues with it and he's 5 years old (he won't initiate going on the toilet himself). So here is what I have learned:
1) Holding their poop is one more thing they can control so they try to hold on that "control" as long as they can

2)Positive reinforcement. Everytime she goes poop on the potty like a big girl tell her what a good girl she is and give her a little reward ( a couple gummy bears or something)

3)Designate a certain time of day to sit on the toilet and "try" to poop. Be consistent with that and make it a routine. If she refuses try to make it fun and read to her or let her play on your phone etc.

4)Make sure she isn't having hard stools which could be making her not want to go. Give her lots of food with fiber so it will be easy to go.(ds1 held his poop for fear that it would hurt)

Be consistent with those and it should work. It might take a while but eventually she will get the drift. Good luck!
ETA: I potty trained my son over the summer. He was naked everyday and I had the potty chair right around where we were. Whenever he would make the face that he had to go potty I would tell him to go on the potty chair and he did.

Roseallen112 · March 2014

We just started with the potty this week. We're doing the no pants or diapers in the house and it's working out great! For popping he doesn't like to go out in the open (he always crawls under the kitchen table) so when he has to poop we've been moving the potty in there. I know it's gross but whatever we'll work on the where factor once he gets the hang of it. Could that be something she is doing? Like she wants more privacy or something? I'm new with this so all I have is what we're doing so far. Good luck!

danandkam · March 2014

I am not sure if it is the privacy she wants. I will give that a try. I think she may just be too busy and doesn't want to stop playing long enough to go sit on the potty. Who knows? I hate potty training!

badsquash · March 2014

DD1 has been potty trained for about 2 months now. She's always had some issues with constipation, but I've found that a nice warm bath encourages her to poop. She's already naked and the potty is right there, she just hops right out of the tub when she feels the urge. TBH though, it may just take some time before your LO consistently poops on the potty....

RedZee · March 2014

I also feel your pain. It took a ridiculously long time before DD1 would poop on the potty at all. What I ended up doing was showing her a TV show about digestion (Sid the Science Kid) and reading 'The Gas We Pass' and then holding up a mirror so she could see where poop comes out. Once she understood it, she started pooping in the potty...as long as she's in the mood. Right now, we give her stickers every night if she's been clean and dry all day. If she has a whole week like that, she'll get a really special prize (a dress MIL got her). It's been 6 weeks and she hasn't gone a whole week yet. She pees on purpose in her pants if she's angry at me for doing horribly abusive things like making lunch for her or telling her it's bath time.

This past week, I made a big production of throwing out underwear after she pooped in them. She was upset for 35 seconds but I don't think she really cares. She's at least not pooped in her pants since Saturday though. #ineedtogotopottytrainersanonymoussoicansaythingslike'it'sbeenfourdayssincei'vecleanedpoopfromunderwear' #mykidisthemoststubbornchildonearth #exceptforhermom

bkeane619 · March 2014

My kid just holds it. Wanna talk about stubborn?

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