DD will be 3 next week and has been withholding her bowel movements for a few weeks now.
Brief history is.. She's had problems with constipation for about a year now and is on movicol for it. Her BMs are now soft so I'm sure the problem isn't there. She has been potty trained for about 2 months now and is super for wees.
She started off well with BMs but Recently she is just holding on and on until she can't hold it anymore. We know she needs to go because she dances around and is holding herself, she'll ask to go to toilet but will just get off straight away - even mid wee. The only way we have got her to go is to physically hold her on the toilet (when we know it's coming) but it's horrible.
I feel sure that the problem is that she thinks it will hurt. I don't think is holding her on the loo is helping her get over her fear, but don't know what else to do :( she is so so miserable when she needs to go but is bright as a button afterwards.
Any advice please?
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3 yo DD withholding poo.. Help please!
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WishYouWereMine · 09/11/2014 14:52
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