DD won’t poop on the potty,

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My DD has been dry day and night now for two weeks. She will happily take herself off to the potty/toilet when she needs a wee.

The only issue she has is that she refuses to poop on the potty or toilet.
She will just do it in her knickers and come tell us after. She clearly knows that feeling of she needs to go but I think her issue is that she has always pooped standing up (ever since walking) and so for her to sit down and try is really unnatural.

Where do I go from here?
What can I do?

Had the same issue with DD, turned out the issue was privacy for her. She didn't want to do it with anyone looking. I used to put her on the potty then leave the room and she eventually started going. Also, there's an app on the App Store called "poo goes to pooland" or something similar. That seemed to help us.

I could have written this. DS is fine with wees although not dry through the night just yet but will only poo in his pants or his nappy on a night! He tells us when he's done it but just refuses to go in the potty!

Thanks, privacy isn’t an issue either I don’t think, the potty is in the downstairs loo, which she will happily take herself off to to go and if upstairs there is a stool in the bathroom for her to get onto the toilet.

I have read a few of the other topics on this but she isn’t constipated so she’s not protesting just refuses to use the potty and I’m sure it’s because it’s an unnatural position for her.

How do you go about changing something like that?

I don’t remember this issue with DD1 so I’m a bit stumped

Dd wouldn't poo on the potty for ages. We got her to ask for a nappy, we'd put it on then change her straight away. Then one night we were at mil's and we ran out of nappies. Dh went to the shop but I made dd sit in the loo to wait for him so she didn't make a mess. She eventually went because she could not hold it, and she was fine going forwards. I think it was fear more than anything

Your health visitor will be able to advise on this. DD was exactly the same, and as PP said, we got her to ask for nappies, but couldn't progress from there. HV suggested working on getting her to wear nappy but sit on loo/potty, then gradually begin cutting a hole in nappy, increasing in size over time. There was probably more to it than that, it was a while ago! The peer pressure of preschool and this technique worked really quickly