Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

Please or to access all these features

Behaviour/development

Talk to others about child development and behaviour stages here. You can find more information on our development calendar.

Potty trained toddler strange behaviour

3 replies

ArjaD · 23/10/2020 12:41

I was hoping someone could help me with some advice. My son has been potty trained for over a month. He is now 2y9m old. And he's doing great. He grasped the concept within a week and still gets excited when he does a pee in the toilet (he prefers this to the potty). Number twos took a bit longer to get right, but he has grasped this as well and has never been worried about a poop in the toilet. During the last few days though, he's suddenly regressed a bit in the sense that he dribbles in his pants a bit and is starting to tell us much later that he needs the toilet. at times he just sits on the toilet, and doesn't pee even though he tells us he has, and he clearly needs to go. He keeps having accidents again at nursery which was a stage we thought we were now past. (aside from maybe the odd one). And he seems to be holding his winkie all the time even straight after a pee. The gp has ruled out a urinary infection, and now I'm wondering if he may just be a bit constipated and thus everything feels a bit uncomfortable and is pressing down. What do you guys think? He's not himself with this.

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Rainallnight · 26/10/2020 18:25

Gosh, that is strange. Constipation can cause wee accidents but that wouldn’t explain the rest.

Can you go back to your GP and push for more info/investigations?

Olivebranch26 · 27/10/2020 10:40

Could he be holding it in or maybe being a bit lazy? You could offer stickers or small reward if he makes it through the day without an accident? I'm sure you've tried this but sometimes children regress for a while but it should pass soon. Good luck.

ArjaD · 27/10/2020 12:22

Thanks all. It seems it was a bit to do with constipation after all. We managed to get him to have some stool softeners and prune juice, and we had looooooots of poop in the last day. And the constant dancing and dribbling seems to be getting less now. All these worries huh!

OP posts:
New posts on this thread. Refresh page