Hoping for some advice please!
Have been potty training DD (nearly 2.5) for a couple of weeks now. Weeing seems to be going as well as can be expected - some accidents but she's pretty good at telling us she needs to go for a wee, and is happy to sit on the potty or toilet to do it.
The problem we're having is with poos! From talking to friends with older kids I understand this can be a bit more tricky but it's getting to a point now where I'm losing my patience with it and just don't know what to do! She has done a couple of poos on the potty/toilet at home and at the childminder but most of the time when she needs one she keeps saying "i need a poo" then we put her on the toilet (she doesn't seem to want to sit on the potty for poos) and she seems to freak out and want to get off almost immediately... And this can go on for hours! Tonight she has come back from the childminder and spent about an hour running back and forth to the loo, getting very worked up, asking to put a nappy on, and so we've put a nappy on her for bedtime and said goodnight but she's still not done a poo and we've had to go in again to calm her down and try her on the loo again... It's been a couple of days now without one so I'm worried she's going to make herself constipated if this carries on.
We've tried stickers, which seemed to work initially but now she doesn't seem fussed! Trying to be calm and chilled about it, lots of praise even for just trying, have even now resorted to letting her eat snacks and watch TV to try to get her to sit on the loo for longer! But don't really know what else to try! Help!
I feel awful cos I'm trying to stay calm for her and make it fun and positive but it's really stretching me to the end of my tether and I've definitely snapped at her which I feel so bad about.