My DS is 3years and 5 months, he's been potty trained for about 12 months but he still won't do his poos in the potty or toilet.
When i first started toilet training he used to have a lot of anxiety over doing them and would hold them in for about a week! you could see him getting all worked up when he needed one so I decided that he clearly wasn't ready so offered him a nappy to do a poo in.
Well 12 months later and he's still doing them in a nappy and he's also a bit particular about where he does it...in the airing cupboard, in the wardrobe, under the bed, behind the tv. I have to be in the same room but so that I can't see him. It's very strange. In the summer he insisted on going outside to do it!
But I do think we're making progress as I've found out that he has done them on the potty at school, at his Dad's and there's been a couple of times he's asked me if he can do it on the potty or toilet and he's had a try.
I try not to worry about it because the way I try to look at it is that he's not going to be doing them in a nappy when he's 15 so it doesn't really matter.
But it does concern me that he's so weird about where he does them etc, its just not normal! Or is it?
I was wondering if anybody else has had the same problem and whether there's anything I can do to reduce his anxiety over it?
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3 year old will only poo in nappy
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PoppyPrincess · 09/12/2012 23:29
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