Started potty training my 2.5 year old a few weeks and he’s done brilliantly, great with wees on the potty and was doing his poos fine too, until a few days ago.
The last few days he will say he needs a poo but will sit on the potty for only a few seconds before standing up again and saying he doesn’t need it. 5 mins later he will do the same thing again. This will continue until either we just happen to catch him on the potty at the right time or he’s gone in his pants. He doesn’t like going in his pants and will get upset at this. He will sit on the potty a bit longer if we distract him with books or tv but this seems to distract him from actually doing the poo! Generally he just won’t sit on it for poos even if he clearly needs to go. We’ve also tried the toilet with a training seat and again he will say he needs it but then will on sit on it for only a few seconds.
My thinking is that at some point it’s hurt him to poo and now he’s holding it in to avoid it, but it is just going to hurt more the longer he holds it! Any ideas how we can encourage him back to pooping on the potty and not holding it in?