So we started potty training our 4 year old at 2.5 years after he announced he wanted to wear big boy pants. I'll be honest it took him a while to get it but he was reliably potty trained at one point although still had poo accidents sometimes. For the last 6 months or so he had a huge regression to the point where i honestly can't remember a time when he was fully clean/dry. In September we went on holiday for a week and he pooed on the toilet every day and didn't have a single accident, i thought we'd finally cracked it (again!) but the day we got home the accidents started again.
I think we are now at the point where he is holding it in. An average day he has 3-5 poo accidents but they are just little bits of sticky poo that don't even make it out of him bum properly. He'll go days without having a proper poo. We have recently discovered that he wees much better if we wait outside and make a pretend queue then go in after him for our wee (i.e. Flushing the toilet and washing hands!) and i think we are back on track with wees but poos are still very hit and miss. Have tried the usual rewards/bribes and poo goes to pooland but everything might work for one day or a few days then its back to normal.
I keep thinking about taking him to the Dr but then he will be ok for a few days and i think it will be ok so i don't book an appointment and then he gets worse again.
Anyone got any suggestions?