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DS pooing

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woodpops · 06/10/2004 12:33

THis is a long one. Ds 3 is potty trained except when it comes to pooing he won't poo anywhere but his pants or a nappy. Last week for some bisare reason as kids do he'd stripped off and was running round the house naked. I went upstirs to take the washing up and change our bed. While I was doing this ds came up fetched himself a pair of pants and told me he nneded them. When I asked him are you going to poo? He said no. I asked if he wanted to sit on the toilet or potty to see if he wanted a poo. But no. Then when I went downstairs 10 minutes later. Guess what, the little sod had pooed his pants!!! This has been going on for months and months and months. We've tried star charts, bribery, sweets, toys, you name it we've tried it. Anyway for the last 2 days he's been telling me when he has done a poo which he has never done before. Before his just pooed his pants and carried on playing. Do you think we could finally be turning a corner and he make be making the 1st moves to poo on the toilet?? He has on occasions pooed on the toilet and when he has we've made a huge deal of it and brought him sweets or a small toy. But it is never consistent and never that same time each day. He went through a stage of telling his baby sister off for pooing telling her it was naughty. So I had to explain it was ok for her to poo in a nappy because she was a baby. I even started putting the poo from the nappies down the toilet to show ds that's where poo goes because he kept saying it's ok mummy dustbin man take my poo poo away. I'm at my wits end and need some reassurance that this does happen.

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Northerner · 06/10/2004 12:36

Woodpops hi. My ds is 2.5 and I started potty training a couple of weeks ago, we have cracked the wee's but poo is an issue. Seems that we could be heading the same way as you.......

I did start a thread on the subject if you want to have a look (in the potty section) and it is pretty common.

woodpops · 06/10/2004 12:40

He's been fully potty trained for wees since he was 2½. But poos, it's getting beyond a joke and really starting to get me down. I did the nicely, nicely approach for a long time but didn't get anywhere now I can't help but loose my temper with him. Especially now I know he knows he's doing it IYKWIM. When he purposly put his pants on to poo I was furious. I had to go and sit in the garden for ½ an hour to cool down.

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mexico · 06/10/2004 12:42

Woodpops I totally sympathise, my ds 2yrs 8mths has been exacty the same for the last three months. All I have done is bitten my tongue, stayed really cool (outwardly!), and yes tipped the poo in the toilet and admired the splash etc. But last night came a breakthrough! ds declared he wanted to sit on the toilet and do a poo (previously he has absolutely refused to sit on toilet, will wee in it standing on a stool but will only sit on potties) Well he sat there and blow me he did two poos, he was pleased as punch, and I was so delighted I considered videoing it as a momento. This morning he got up and tried again, but without success. So everyone will tell you that one day you will get the breakthrough, I was seriously doubting this but I think I may have had mine.
Lots of luck to you

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Matonic · 06/10/2004 13:22

Woodpops, as you know (I think you helped me out with a potty thread of mine recently) I have a similar problem with 2.9yo ds. Wees are pretty much always in potty or toilet, poos are completely random and not yet done one in toilet. Apart from the knowledge that you are not alone, all I can offer is that everyone who I consider to know anything about this (nursery staff, mums of older children, even my mother who is of the generation that is convinced that all babies in her day were fully toilet-trained by the age of 18 months) says it's perfectly normal, esp in boys, and that it will pass.

I think that yes, every tiny change in his behaviour, eg, like asking for the pants to go on, is a sign of increasing awareness and so even if it doesn't quite feel like a step forward, it might well be progress.

woodpops · 06/10/2004 13:38

I suppose. At least he is now starting to dislike the feeling of the poo in his pants. Do you rekon if I asked santa for my ds to poo on the loo for xmas I'd get it. Really desperate measures now eigh??

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