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Pooing......... I need help mums

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Mummytomissp · 20/03/2015 12:58

Hi ladies,
So we're 3+ plus 3 weeks into potty/ toilet training and my little girl who is 3 years 4 months has been really good when doing wee's on the potty but it's a completely different story. She now holds her poo in and won't do it in a nappy or on the potty. She's making herself very red and sore and myself and
Her are at locker heads because he thinks am pushing her and his answer to everything is stick her in a nappy when I kn myself she can do as we have had her do little tiny poo's on the potty.
I feel like he doesn't care and just wants to take the easy way out and keep her in nappies
I feel like he d

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Piratejones · 21/03/2015 18:48

I'd agree to let her have a nappy to poo in, it's very common and pretty normal.

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HollyBdenum · 21/03/2015 18:55

Put her in a nappy. If the idea doesn't appeal, read some of the threads on here about withholding poo - it's pretty common for this to cause long-term constipation problems leading to children not having proper bowel control well into their primary school years.
The Eric website has a really good leaflet about how to deal with a child who will only poo in a nappy.

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HollyBdenum · 21/03/2015 18:58

www.eric.org.uk/assets/downloads/136/Children%20who%20will%20only%20poo%20into%20a%20nappy.doc

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Petallic · 21/03/2015 19:04

Agree - take pressure off and let her poo in a nappy. My DS is a poo witholder and it's taken nearly a year to get him pooing on a potty after potty training because he ended up constipated due to holding in his poos, which then made it painful, which made him even more fearful & anxious of going. If she will poo in a nappy, pop nappy on for poos only and then gradually get her to poo on potty with nappy still on etc.