AAAArgh, daytime clean and dry 2.8 tear old has started to wait for his nappy for a poo :(

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He has been clean and dry in the day for weeks, with only the occasional accident when he is tired, but has not had any issues with using the toilet, he has his special fruity booty bum wipes and has been fine, but the last 3 nights in a row he has waited for his nappy at night so he can have his poo.

Is this normal, how can we get him to stop it, we ask him to poo every time we take him to the loo, especially in the evening.

TIA

My DD did this for several months I'm afraid.
It can a while for toddlers to get to grips with this stage of potty training. The lightbulb moment came for my DD when we finally managed to get her to do one in the potty - only by some degree of subterfuge on our part and refusing to put her a nappy on when she obviously needed it and got her to use the potty instead. Since then - no accidents whatsover, luckily for us.

The thing is Beamur my DS has been quite happily doing it in the toilet for a few weeks now, it is just the last 3 nights he has waited for his nappy to be put on before he poos, and no amount of bribing/begging/persuasion seems to make him poo in the day atm. It seems like a backwards step :(

I think pooing can be a bit traumatic for little ones...my DD was very much attached to her nappy and kept on pooing in it for months, even though I was sure she knew full well what she was doing! My own theory on her was that she associated nappies with being a baby and she still wanted to be a baby - she was never one that the 'be a big girl' tactics worked on.
At one point I left the potty in her bedroom and suggested she could use it if she needed a poo (she was in pull ups at this time) and she went as far as pooing in the nappy, then taking the nappy off and emptying it in the potty and then putting the nappy back on before proudly summoning me and telling me what she had done I decided this was not a good tactic quite swiftly and removed the potty!
My other tactic - also not one likely to be recommended in baby books - was bribery. I promised DD a scooter if she started (and continued!) to do poos in the potty instead. She quite liked the idea but it still took a while before she would do it.
My only defence for my techniques is that whilst DD was late (she was about 3.5) cracking potty training, she has been clean and dry with very few accidents ever since.

My dd was at least three (if not 4) before she would poo in the potty-I had to bribe her with little presents. She used to ask for her nappy every time she needed to go and would always do the deed standing up holding a chair. I wondered whether this was some natural instinctive way to go!