Poo refusal because 'it smells'

[belindarose]

DD is just 3. Has been potty trained for wees for a year. Poos have been much more troublesome but she seemed to have got there - either using a potty or in the night time nappy.

She's just started soiling her knickers again. She is also difficult to persuade to wee. Today she told me she didn't want to wee 'because then a poo might come' as that she didn't want to poo because 'then I would smell it'. Has just pooed in her knickers and told me that it was because she can't smell it in her knickers.

She has become super sensitive to smells very recently. Petrol smells, the dog, food smells etc all annoy her.

New baby sibling (7 weeks) so I'm not surprised by a regression, but wonder if anyone has dealt with similar? Thanks.

It does sound like a smokescreen for not wanting to use the potty for a poo, saying she can't smell it in her knickers if she does it there.

Have you thought of getting a cheap body spray that she likes the scent of (she chooses it) and give a quick squirt of it into the potty, and tell her no-one will be able to smell it if she poos in it then?

Haven't thought of that, no. I'll see if she can bear the smell of anything like that.

Could you give her something else smelly to hold and sniff whilst she poos, like a small wrapped scented soap for example? Or else a tissue with some perfume sprayed onto it?

If she really is worried about this, perhaps explaining that everyones poo smells a bit might help. Does she come into the toilet with you?