We haven't really started toilet training DS1 (2yrs 6m) in earnest, but he knows what toilets are for, will reliably squeeze out a wee every time we put him on the toilet (with toddler seat and step to access) and occasionally asks to go on the toilet for a wee. Nappy changes are a screaming, kicking, traumatising nightmare, so I really should consider biting the bullet and going nappy-free and train fully, but I have non-sleeping DS2 (18 weeks) that just makes everything seem that much harder at the moment.
DS1 does his only poo of the day everyday between 4 and 5pm, and always just as DS2 has fallen asleep in the sling. Like. Clockwork. I have promised stickers, casually left the toilet door open, tried (and failed, cueing hysterics) to get his nappy off so he asks to go to the loo, which he will do for wee as he doesn't like messing the floor, but I cannot get him to do this poo in the toilet so that the two events don't coincide. I'm then left trying to change a shitty nappy on a flailing, wailing, kicking toddler with a mahoosive baby in a sling and I'm almost weeping. DS2 will not nap in a pram or cot at this time of day, despite hours and hours and days of my life spent shh-ing in a darkened room, so getting DS1 to poo on the toilet seems to be my only option to stay out of Bedlam.
Any thoughts??
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For my sanity...is there *any* way of getting this poo in the toilet?
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ElphabaTheGreen · 13/12/2014 19:04
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