Nearly 3 and pooing in his sleep

[LizzyA123]

Hi,

My DS2 will be 3 at the weekend, and has the annnoying tendency to poo during his sleep if he hasn't done it in the day. Sometimes he wakes up after and other times he sleeps with a dirty nappy for some time before alerting us.

DS2 showed no interest in potty training a few months ago but I am about to start again now as he shown some interest in weeing in one.

How can I encourage him first to poo in the day not at night and then to do both poo and wee in a potty?

You can't really. You can try upping his fibre intake at breakfast and hope you catch it mid afternoon or at least before bedtime but it does sometimes happen. DD is three and we are also struggling but we have found giving her a banana at breakfast guarantees a poo mid afternoon.

Good idea will try some banana at breakfast time, he has gone off his usual cereal ( weetabix) a bit so will be making him porridge for a while.

If you make your porridge in the microwave you can add banana to it, add a spoonful of nutella and it's delicious!

I'm also having great difficulty in potty training DS who is 2.5 and tends to poo in the early hours and often wakes up with a dirty nappy, so perhaps I'll try the breakfast banana idea.

I've just been through this with DS1. He potty trained quicky going for a wee but was a bit slower on the pooing side. When he did eventually go in the potty we gave him lots of praise and made sure he knew how please we were with him.
He then took a backward step after a couple of poos on the potty and went back to doing it when he had his nappy on at night. We tried increasing his fiber too, but that made no difference. He would hold himself until his nappy was on.
A couple of times he told us he had a sore tummy so we encouraged him to sit on the potty.
Eventually on Sunday (just gone) he went for a poo on his potty and then again on Tues evening. I think after about 8 weeks of going back a step it finally clicked with him. In that time the only different thing we did was empty DS2's nappy down the loo and say that the poo was off to see his Mummy and Daddy!
DS1 now takes great pride in emptying his potty with us and sending his poo to see it's Mummy and Daddy.

My DD thought it was great when she spent a week doing a poo in her new 'big potty and I did the praise thing, stickers etc. We also said goodbye to her poo (DD suggested it was going to see its mummy and daddy herself!) but since then (around 2 months) will only poo in her nappy at night and, what probably bothers me most, is that it doesn't wake her so I go in before going to bed myself and change her while she's asleep. If she doesn't know she's doing it, surely she won't get used to the feeling of needing a poo? Why doesn't it wake her?

Hi again,

We seem to be making progress. DS2 has spent the last 2 days in underpants, mainly at home with easy access to a potty - he kept them dry all day, We braved a meal out and a short car trip tonight, he was as good as gold. I have also managed to catch him on the cusp of having a poo just after he has been settled down at night(refuses to do anything but a wee before bed). I have got him up and he has done it on the potty without fuss. Hopefully it won't be too long before he realises that it is better to go before being tucked up than after.