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Potty training - poo probs

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Catsonskis · 21/06/2023 07:35

Not a poo troll, been here a long time.

really looking for advice regarding my 3 year year old and potty training re poos. She has been successfully dry all day and night since just before Easter. She had loads of poo successes too initially, both in potty and toilet. But for the last 4 weeks or so she hasn’t had a single poo in the potty or toilet, every single one is in her knickers or on the bloody floor.

im fairly certain that she’s holding it in, as she’s passing lots of “pebble” like poos. Small movements that get trapped between her bum cheeks and she doesn’t tell us until we catch a whiff or notice a bulge. We’ve had to chuck so many clothes that she’s ruined (I was and save as much as possible but some are just passed saving - I’m also pregnant so washing them some days is beyond me as I then have to clear up my projectile vomit too).

she’s not constipated as she drinks loads, eats tonnes of fruit and her movements are soft usually.

butnim exhausted and at a loss as to what to do now? We’ve tried the poo land app, tried saying poos go in the potty not your knickers which she engages in well and positively. We’ve tried telling her off, tried sticker charts, consequences, explaining mummy can’t play now because we have to tidy up, tried getting her big cousins to encourage her, saying “your friends don’t do poos in pants”

it’s at the point she’s getting a sore bum from it being trapped there too.

im just at a loss and stressed!

any advice gratefully accepted

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madeleine85 · 21/06/2023 17:29

I think we found 3 things that worked for us:

We had an "aha" moment with our toddler after watching a toilet training course. She is a private pooper. When we gave her the potty, we tried to keep it visible and in places easy for her to get to. Those were out in the open and she hated pooping in front of us. The minute we put it in the bathroom and let her have peace to poop it worked much better.

We gave her a very small amount of laxative in her juice once a day to make pooping easier for her. Our doctor recommended this one. Since she was an infant she has had a harder time pooping and could go 7-8 days without even at a few weeks old.

My husband excessively, loudly praises her poops. She gets to flush them and now shouts "bye turd" in her loudest voice. Sounds weird, feels very weird, but works. She thinks it is the best.

SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 21/06/2023 20:41

madeleine85 · 21/06/2023 17:29

I think we found 3 things that worked for us:

We had an "aha" moment with our toddler after watching a toilet training course. She is a private pooper. When we gave her the potty, we tried to keep it visible and in places easy for her to get to. Those were out in the open and she hated pooping in front of us. The minute we put it in the bathroom and let her have peace to poop it worked much better.

We gave her a very small amount of laxative in her juice once a day to make pooping easier for her. Our doctor recommended this one. Since she was an infant she has had a harder time pooping and could go 7-8 days without even at a few weeks old.

My husband excessively, loudly praises her poops. She gets to flush them and now shouts "bye turd" in her loudest voice. Sounds weird, feels very weird, but works. She thinks it is the best.

I went massively overboard with the praise too Blush

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