previosly potty trained 3 yr old now pooing in pants daily! Help

[goblinsmummy]

Can you help?
My 3 1/2 yr old daughter has pooed in her pants 5 times this week and also puts her fingers in it and does a bit of wall/ chair smearing. She says that she can't get to toilet quickly enough. Prior to this we had an increase of pant wetting.
Am taking the tack of not making a big deal but it's been every day pooey pants and twice today
Help?

bribery all the way IME........just a question of finding the right incentive. Reward chart cumlimating in a small gift if all poos go in the right place for a week? Chocolate buttons solved the issue in our house

Oh dear, well if she has been trained for a while and is doing this because she is playing so doesnt think or cant go quick enough then a firm word may be needed.

In the meantime i found something that worked was having a bag of 'goodies' so that if she does a poo in the potty/toilet or goes a day without having an accident then she can choose.
The treats dont have to be anything fancy or big and dont have to be sweets if you dont like giving them to her.
I found poundland or other deals and cheaper shops sell a variety of sticker books, play balls, bubbles etc. for a cheap amount and this worked for me!

Will watch this thread with interest. My DS 3.3yrs had been virtually trained up untill about a week ago. He has completely lost the plot.
He's pooing his pants up to 9 times a day or even just an afternoon. I would put him back in nappies if it weren't for the fact that we were a hairs breadth from considering him done a week ago.
I'm putting it down to exhaustion at the moment. Can't think of anything to do about it. He's not motivated by sweets or stickers any more and promising him a toy at the end of the day wouldn't help him to remember to go on potty.
My patience is wearing thin and all the staying calm and "never mind dears" is doing my head in.
On top of that I have raging pmt and am starving as trying to diet. Aaagh!

Mine did this a week ago....Reward chart lots of cuddles and extra attention, back tonormal now but it was so fustrating at the time!
She still wee's herself ever now and agin, due to her being very lazy or too into what ever she is doing at the time!
She says's 'Never mind it was an accident!
There not going to be doing this by the time they go to school so dont worry to much.

haleybop So glad to hear of someone coming through this.
Praying for a better day tomorrow.

Anyone else who's been through this we'd love to hear your story.

I think 'not making a big deal of it' is the problem. I remember my son at about the same age doing something similar. I was feeling quite sympathetic and supportive ('maybe he's not ready yet') when he made the big mistake of giggling. When I saw that this was just some big funny joke to him I lost my temper completely ... I confess to it being one of the rare times he got a smack. For the record, it never happened again.