We've cracked it with poos!!!!! Sharing how if you're interested...

[shirleycat1]

I've been following various threads on here and having a nightmare with ds (2.10) and poo. He was pretty good at weeing, but I was cleaning up to 4 pooey pants a day. I would ask him if he needed to go, he'd say no and 30 seconds later tell me he'd done a poo. It was a NIGHTMARE. I'm sure loads of you feel that pain.

Anyway, through work my partner got chatting to a child psychologist who recommended personalizing the teaching by writing a story about ds. So we took some pictures of ds on the toilet and potty, a (fake) poo in the potty and of me and dp and new baby dd cheering and I wrote a little rhyme:

The is (ds) and he is nearly 3,
(Ds) uses the potty when he needs a wee,
He sometimes uses the toilet too,
And he really should use them to do a poo.
Poos don't go in your pants or nappy,
If you poo in the potty everyone will be happy.
So if you want to make everyone happy you know what you need to do,
Sit on the toilet or potty and push till you do a poo.
Mummy will cheer,
Daddy will cheer,
And (DD) will cheer too.
We will all be so so happy and so very proud of you.

Stuck it all in a book and we showed it to ds. He was totally thrilled with it. He absolutly loved it. We read it through a few times and a couple of hours later he asked to do a poo on the toilet. AMAZING. A week later and we've had no accidents - not a single one.

Just wanted to share this because it was like a miracle for us and I hope it can work for someone else too. It was a bit of a hassle and a bit Blue Peter making the book, but worth every second.

Hope I don't sound smug, just wanted to help...

[Nevercan]

Love the rhyme and a great idea. It is like a new and improved personalised mr poo goes to pooland (if u have read it)

[BelinaTheChicken]

LOVE it, awesome rhyme too. Definitely doing this today, hope it works! I've done a book before to help him get over fear of hospital visits, which was really successful, so fingers crossed. Thanks

[kirsty1234]

Hi,
Im new to mumsnet and was wondering if anyone can e-mail me a copy of the book Mr poo goes to pooland. Ive heard really good reviews of it and am having a hard time with my 2 1/2 year old, shes great at having a wee but a poo is a different matter, Help. Any suggestions?

[kirsty1234]

Im also going to make the book as suggested above, great idea :)

[sbear]

this is a really great idea. thanks for sharing it.

[shirleycat1]

Hey Belina, Kirsty - did you do the book? Did it work?

[naomi76]

my 4yr old son, will not entertain the toilet or potty to do a poo on ans insists on doing them in pull up nappies. we're at our wits end with him, the hv has been useless. we've tried the story....help

[Huffpot]

Thats a great idea....I think I'll try that too.
Can I ask how you made the fake poo? I'm puzzling about it...

[shirleycat1]

Fake poo from fancy dress/joke shop. You could always just poo in a potty though eh!?

[Coolfonz]

I don't have any rhyming skillz but we have just got our son (2yrs 9mnths) to have his first (and second) monster sized shits in the potty after about four months of failure.
Basically - on the advice of a friend - we went for a no pants policy (NPP). We kept him out of trousers and pants in the house for a few days. It seemed to focus his mind, he couldn't just shit himself and get someone else to deal with it. Had to keep the potty to hand all the time.
In between the two shits he also crapped on the stairs for which he received a long-mild rebuke, this morning he crapped on the potty on his own.
I would thoroughly recommend a NPP.
Never have I felt so pleased as having to deal with a bouncer-maglite sized sticky shit in our living room.