My son 21 months has a strange habit before doing his poo - he would say poo, wee in his potty, before getting up and running frantically up and down without pants, then sits down on potty again, gets up, runs.. you get the picture.
We tried not to take notice initially because it is so odd. We made him just sit on his potty. As a result, he got so badly constipated he was sent home from nursery one day, we had to visit the doctor and I spent three days nursing him back to health, as he was practically like an ill child with it. Now we allow him to have his poo-ritual and it's really helped. We do not get any poo accidents at home now or even when we go out as long as we find a big enough toilet for him to run round, though he still holds his poos at nursery and sometimes just does it in his pants, because nursery will not do this with him. Understandly so, as it is such a strange habit. Anyones else with strange experiences like this?
We're also not doing that great with the wee. If DS is with me all day, he does really well, he would tell me when he needs to go and if he hasn't been for 2 hours I would just get him to use the loo with me. But when DP looks after him, he sometimes leaves DS in wet pants for 10 minutes or more , and DS's potty training is ruined for the day. He would then just wee in his pants all day long. Even though his nursery is brilliant, we suspect they are probably very busy so there is no way they would change DS's pants straight away either, especially if it's a small accident and it's not visible. So now after 5 weeks of slowly getting used to sitting in wet pants (when not with me), he seems to now be quite happy with wet pants, whereas he use to tell me "Wet! Wee wee" even if he's only had a little drop of accident. Finally, DS also talks to me and tells me things, e.g. "wee-wee", "poo-poo now", but refuses to tell DP and nursery. How do we crack this? He goes to nursery most the week so I cannot think of a solution.