Pooping on the potty...

[kittyriot]

I didn't want to divert attention in the Randoms thread but we're completely struggling with pooping on the potty. We've been potty training for almost two weeks now and not a single poop on the potty!

Any advice/comments about what worked for you/things not to do?

[activebaby]

Poops came about a month after the pee. You aren't doing anything wrong. It can be scary to them. I would sit with ds when he was on the potty and mimic grunting and be silly. One day it just finally clicked.

[emmagk]

I'm struggling with this too. DS was doing great at first but now he will hold it and poop in his diaper or pull-up at nap or bedtime. He's been potty training since mid February and I don't know how to fix it

[athn64]

We're in a poop regression so I got nothing. Just time. Right now she is holding it until nap or bed when she is in a pull up.

[kittyriot]

Oh, that's all good to know. I know poop is the tougher one but I thought the utter lack of a poop on the pot was worrisome.

Sounds like we're on the right track. We have a potty sticker chart, talk about it, sit together and try.

I'm sorry athn64 and emmagk that you've been challenged lately.

[emmagk]

Apr 17, 2017 18:38:48 GMT -5 athn64 said:

We're in a poop regression so I got nothing. Just time. Right now she is holding it until nap or bed when she is in a pull up.

Oh I see we have the same kid

[athn64]

Apr 17, 2017 18:52:04 GMT -5 emmagk said:

Apr 17, 2017 18:38:48 GMT -5 athn64 said:

We're in a poop regression so I got nothing. Just time. Right now she is holding it until nap or bed when she is in a pull up.

Oh I see we have the same kid

She had it down for months. But for some reason the Christmas holidays screwed her up and she no longer wants to poop. I get maybe one poop in 5 on the potty.

[becole]

My kid will poop at home but not daycare. So yeah. No way to fix it. It sucks.

[athn64]

At least we have each other to commiserate with. It's nice not to be PT in a vaccuum

[emmygirl]

I could tell if DD was holding it or around her usual times, I'd sit and read a book to her and rub her back. Helped relax her and distract what she was doing.

[activebaby]

My kid also likes to "read" on the potty.

[becole]

I think they all go through it. It's when not if.

[meggypoo1]

Clara pooped twice on the potty and now doing the same thing as others. Holding it until nap or bed.

[bliz1712]

We went through a stage where she wouldn't poop with diapers still, she was just really constipated. Is she pooping at all or just not on the potty? If she's not then I would look into items to help her out as she maybe be backed up.

[comicSans]

Dd is the oddball in that she was pooping on the potty for a while before we even tried pee, but she did go through a brief period where she then held it until she was in a diaper at nap. I think it's partly a control thing and part of the learning. Do you plop the poop from the diaper into the toilet? We did that for a long time and I now do it with ds mostly because I don't want poop in the trash if I can avoid it, but I think it helped her get that poop goes in the potty.

[kittyriot]

Apr 18, 2017 10:54:09 GMT -5 bliz1712 said:

We went through a stage where she wouldn't poop with diapers still, she was just really constipated. Is she pooping at all or just not on the potty? If she's not then I would look into items to help her out as she maybe be backed up.

She has been constipated lately which I think is adding to the problem, but we've added in a probiotic so I'm hoping to see improvement.

And comicSans, no we don't do that. I'll give it a try - I'm sure all associations help! Thanks!

[emmagk]

DS is currently pooping on the potty! I'm outside giving him "pri-sy" (privacy)

[Doll15]

Apr 18, 2017 14:58:19 GMT -5 kittyriot said:

Apr 18, 2017 10:54:09 GMT -5 bliz1712 said:

We went through a stage where she wouldn't poop with diapers still, she was just really constipated. Is she pooping at all or just not on the potty? If she's not then I would look into items to help her out as she maybe be backed up.

She has been constipated lately which I think is adding to the problem, but we've added in a probiotic so I'm hoping to see improvement.

And comicSans, no we don't do that. I'll give it a try - I'm sure all associations help! Thanks!

This was our problem. I cut out one of her cups of milk and give her watered down apple juice instead. She is back to pooping on the potty. I suspected constipation because she tried so hard to go just a tiny bits

[activebaby]

I mix milk and water. I tell ds I do it so his poops will not be so hard. He is okay with that if I tell him why.
ETA: but he drinks way way too much milk

[becole]

Apr 19, 2017 18:35:41 GMT -5 activebaby said:

I mix milk and water. I tell ds I do it so his poops will not be so hard. He is okay with that if I tell him why.
ETA: but he drinks way way too much milk

Just give him skim milk.

[savigirl]

DD had constipation issues so pooping on the potty actually came first for her. We could see her face starting to stain and are most often able to get her to the potty in time. Sometimes she'll sneak behind a chair too. Those are her cues. Any cues you've picked up on so you can get him on the potty just before he has to go?

[ksyknelvr73]

Basically agreeing with everyone else. Poop was always delayed after the peeing thing was figured out. Both my boys have gone through this. They can be scared - we would give DS2 a book, I'd ask him what he wanted me to do to help him (he seriously asked me to hold his hand quite a few times), and I bribed him with candy. It's always just a matter of time, so I've seen. DS1 it took about a month after peeing to do it, and DS2 I swear it was like 6 freaking months.

[athn64]

She just did it! Told me she needed to go and everything! I may be dancing

[activebaby]

Mine likes to poop when I'm in the shower. He poops on the little potty right beside me. It makes it a hot steamy poopy smelling shower.
ETA: so grateful its in the potty though!

[athn64]

I just bribed my child with chocolate to get her to go. #noshame

[meggypoo1]

We had our first poop accident. She tried to go on the potty after she had the accident. So gross

[SpinsOffResonance]

DD1 refused to poop on the potty for 6months after she potty trained for pee. I'd ask periodically if she wanted to try but never pushed it. One day it clicked, it was a month after she turned 3yo.

Over a year ago, DD2 used to go sit on the potty at the same time as her sister and poop . But by the time we started potty training she didn't want to poop on it anymore, she'd request a diaper. I did a sticker chart with her for poop only. She loves stickers so the first few days she was super excited about it and kept asking to go poop on the potty so she could get a sticker. She'd sit on it and try but never did and kept pooping in her naptime diaper. After about a week, she said she had to poop, ran in the corner and started freaking out asking for a diaper, so I gave her a big hug and told her to try the potty, told her not to be scared (she was really scared), I actually held her and hugged her the entire time she was on the potty and she went. We kept up the sticker chart until we ran out of stickers, so about a month. Now she actually does better with poop than pee!

[springbeduk]

SpinsOffResonance I remember you also saying earlier that your dd1 was much later to poop on the potty than to pee and have been holding onto that for hope and sanity! I really hope my dd will be on a similar timeline and it might only be a month or so away...

she knows she gets chocolate and new Legos when she poops on the toilet but still won't. Sometimes she will try when thinking about wanting those rewards but only ever when she doesn't really need to go. When she actually needs to poop, no way.