Pooping in the potty!

Question

Help!! My 2 and a half year old daughter has been peeing in the potty and wearing panties for 6 months now. She always pees never a accident, but when she has to go #2 she begs for a diaper. She refuses to use the potty for it and will hold it for a good week if she has to. We have tried everything from sticker charts to rewards to taking things away. Any suggestion will help!

Thanks

Answer 1

I had this problem with a girl I was recently a nanny for. She was urine and overnight trained by about two and a half.. but she is now FIVE YEARS OLD and still withholding her p**p,, insists on a diaper which her parents will gladly give her .

  When she asks for a diaper next time, give it to her, but tell her that she has to do her p**p in the bathroom. Let her p**p it in there, then have her help take it off, and flush the p**p down the toilet, and then have a talk about how p**p belongs in the potty, and how all the grownups and big kids she knows put their poops in the potty. Then, after she gets used to having to do it in the bathroom, let her have the diaper, but insist that she sits on the toilet while she actually poops..Ive done quite a bit of reading on the subject, and they say this is how a lot of people will deal with that sort of holding resistance. If she has the bowel control to wait and ask for a diaper, she has the control to p**p in the pot.

This is harder if you have young children in the house, but you might try getting rid of the diaper alltogether, warning her a few days in advance that there will be no more diapers, and ask her what she thinks is the best way to p**p without a diaper. I would give her tons of fruit, and maybe even a mild glycerin suppository .. the ones that they make for infants.. very gentle for children. She physically wont be able to hold it if you do that.. then you can put her on the pot when she starts to go,, and praise her to high heaven after she manages.

I think the most important thing here is consistancy,, when I was nannying the girl that was holding her p**p, her mother would never even ask her to try to p**p on the potty, her father only would on occasion, and I would try every time. She got mixed signals.

best of luck to you with this..  

Answer 2

Yup, my daughter was the same way...Let her have a pull-ups, but make her put it on in the bathroom, and then expect her to flush the p**p and dispose of the diaper herself...

Eventually, tell her she can still have the diaper on, but she needs to sit on the potty while she poops in her diaper....

After doing this for awhile, cut a hole in the back of the diaper, and let her try pooping on the potty with the "magic diaper."

It may work; best of luck to you!

Answer 3

My son just started to do poops in the potty. When he would pee pee, I would say do you have to go poopy too and he would say no, then one day he did it for my mom, everytime he's there he does it now, but he wouldnt for me, but now he does, he calls them fishes, cuz the poops look like they are swimming, its cute, I guess, for p**p. But I just encouraged him forever, and now he does it all the time, and unfortunately makes me look at the "fish". So try to have someone else try, like a grandparent or something and dont forget lots of encouragement. Good Luck!

Answer 4

yes, give her some more roughage. she is probably having to strain to have a B M  and it hurts, If it is easy for her to go, she won't hold it. Try giving her more whole grain cereals, and breads, and adding more fruit and veggies to her diet.  until then, let her go in a diaper.

Answer 5

I know what you are going through!  My daughter was peeing on the potty and wearing underwear, but refused to p**p in the potty.  Her place of choice was my bedroom floor!  I finally got tired of her doing this, my patience was really being tested, so I started promising her a balloon when she went in the potty.  After a month of promising to buy her a balloon, she finally pooped in her potty!

With pooping in the potty, you really do need a lot of patience.  Kids refuse to p**p there because they are more used to standing to p**p, and also used to the feel of p**p being squished on their butt, not falling out into the toilet.  Let her watch you in the bathroom when you are pooping, it may help.  Just be sure to be patient, whatever you do.  Kids need to be emotionally ready to p**p in the potty, and she will go when she feels comfortable enough  :)  

Answer 6

maybe you could try m&ms for  a reward  

Answer 7

This is a hard one.  My son refuses to #2 in the potty.  He'll be three in October.  What I've done is give him treats, clap like a hystercial moron and scream YaY when he at least attempts it.  Potty training is not always easy and doesn't happen over night either.  Be patient and encouraging.  And if you find out a way to get her to go #2 in the potty, let me know the secret!!  

:)