Regression - now not telling me she's done a poo... and denying it

[handlemecarefully]

My 2 year old dd (just turned two last month) has been consistently informing me that she had done a poo for months and months, but recently (last few weeks) has stopped doing this. Moreover if I catch a whiff and ask her outright if she has done a poo she will now deny it.

I don't know what's triggered this off. I've tried to engage her in the idea of potty training in a relaxed way (encouraged her to sit on one, read a few books where a potty was the main theme) - do you think she is rebelling against this?...and is she therefore not ready for potty training?

Anyone ?

My ds did this, so I stopped asking him, just went and changed his nappy. At the same time he rebelled sharply against the potty that he had been playing with happily for several months. He new exactly where poo and wee belonged and what the potty was for, even though he wasn't readdy for potty-training. I'd say just put it all on the back-buirner for a while and return to it in a few months time.

Actually I would difer from prettycandles and say this was the trigger that made us decide to go for it with dd. It seemed to me that she was just fed up with nappies, could not be bothered with changing them, and wanted more control over the whole deal herself. We took her out of nappies completely (except for sleep) and immediately she was fine with the potty, taking herself off to use it whenever needed, and she has had only 3 or 4 accidents since then (3 months). She was a bit older than your dd, she was 2ys6mo. I would say giv it a go with the potty training if you feel up to it, you can always go back to it later if it doesn't work out.