Hi,
I've written on here before about my daughter. She's now nearly 4.5 years and starting school in September. We've been toilet training since October 2015.
Initially it all went fine. No accidents after a couple of weeks. Roll on December and she just couldn't be bothered. Took a break as it was all getting very stressful. Fine again for around a month until my husband and I went away for 1 night to a wedding. She stayed with grandparents and her little brother and was very happy but as soon as we came back the wetting started again.
For months we tried positive parenting, praise, reward and after only about 2 weeks of success we finally gave up and just ignored any wetting or pooing in pants.
For a while ignoring it reduced the accidents but it's never really stopped. Leaving her bottom half bare is much more successful so we that's what we did when inside. We asked for a referral to paediatrics in sept last year and saw a paediatrician in oct 2016. We've seen the dr several times now and she has concluded that she believes the problem is behavioural. We've retried incentives and mixing it up so it's something different everyday but it makes the problem worse like we're just highlighting it. We've tried punishing her, sending her to her bedroom, loss of privileges like TV, games, puddings etc. Nothing has worked.
Recently she has started pooing in her pants a lot. Mainly i think because she doesn't want to stop to go to the toilet so tries to hold it in leaving her constipated.
She knows when she needs to go. She goes and sits on the floor and sits on her feet or is rocking to stop the flow.
She's better at nursery but never fully dry. There's still wee stain or dribble in her pants when she gets home and quite often wets herself properly as soon as she arrives home.
We're totally fed up now, completely in despair about how were going to get her fully trained. School is looming and there's no end in sight. Any ideas?
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Squiggles86 · 10/07/2017 18:11
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