Problems with poopy training!

[Dragon884]

Ok so here's my issue:
My son goes potty on his own, if he has to go he goes. The problem is going poopy, he understands poopy goes in the toilet, but he does not do it. We put him on the toilet for up to 1/2 hour sometimes, but he will not go. However once he gets in his underwear he hides in his room and goes. I don't know what to do. Hubby and I are getting very frustrated. We don't know if buying a booster seat or a mini toilet will help. If any advice please help!

[kcbtfarnsworth]

i am having a problem with my 5yr old going in her pants again! ugh! she knows the difference and my sister took her while she was on xmas vacation and got her to stop. she was doing great for 5 months and just started to do it again. any tips will be greatly appreciated. it is embarrassing to be around others when we smell it and i cant take it anymore and dont know if we should do pull ups, afraid that will give her mixed messages. i try no to yell, i have 2 jobs and when i come home and see or smell her, i get frustrated.

[alexasma]

my daughter is the same way. We are just starting to potty train, but she has the pee thing down with no problem. Now, we just need to get her to poo on the potty. She won't go in her underwear, though. The deal is, she has to sit on the potty for a while and try, but if she doesn't, we just put her in a PullUp and don't draw attention to it. This way it doesn't end up in her undies.

[Rilsmama]

My daughter had problems with poop the first year she was being potty trained. I thought she was constipated, but then realized she was actually squeezing her butt cheeks together so it wouldn't/couldn't come out. The poop would then become impacted and...well it was just awful. I decided maybe a stool softener would help and then maybe ease the whole process along...so I bought benefiber. It worked. I still add a teaspoon to her milk or juice about twice a week. Now she'll poop anywhere/anytime. Her favorite time, however, is when we are sitting down to a hot supper.

[USNchic]

My son would do the same thing; hide off in a corner somewhere and poop in his pants. He is almost 3 and has been fully potty trained for about 3 months now though. What worked for me was using poopy prizes. He is really into airplanes, so I bought a pack of matchbox airplanes and every time he went poopy in the potty I would get very excited and praise him and give him a "poopy prize." Within a week of starting the poopy prizes he was consistently pooping on the toilet. Good luck!

[anasalazar]

I have a problem with potty training altogether..I thinks it's the most stressful stage for parents and kids

[orenna]

Me too.. My daughter is almost 3 and she pees in the potty all the time but won't poop in there... we also sit more than a 1/2 hour sometimes. I've tried prizes and treats but not working.. the problem is if she's in pull-ups she won't pee in the potty only if she wears panties... so I can't just put her in pullups all the time. So frustrating and I only hope it passes soon.. It's good to know I'm not the only one so frustrated with this!

[mable06]

we let our son poop in his diaper but he had to do it in the bathroom. we knew his signs for needing to go so we would tell him to grab a book and head to the bathroom. we just kept stressing to him that's where we do our business. eventually we made him sit on the potty to poop and it finally worked. hang in there, he'll get it

[dcroberts]

This won't help at all, but I thought it was funny (only because it wasn't MY child!) I was visiting at a friend's house and her little boy was playing quietly behind the couch. It was was several feet away from a wall. I glanced over and saw that he had removed the metal heater vent cover and was squatting over it, doing his business. His mother freaked! Come to find out, the bathroom was downstairs and he was simply afraid to go down there by himself. He didn't feel comfortable telling her that he needed to go because she had company. So he was just trying to hide it. lol He is a teen now, and I will never get that image of him out of my mind!

[mommy of 4 kids]

well i think i might know the problem here did he even have any kind of discomfort while he was going but you also said that he runs off to his room and poops in there well get him a little potty and put it in there lot of parents have said that i don't think it's a good idea but it worked for my second oldest who is now 5 i put her little potty in her roon and next thing i know she said "mommy mommy look what i did" and to my idea worked very well she pooped on her potty and then i just kept moving her little potty all the way to the bathroom and next thing i know she's going poop in her potty in the bathroom after a little bit of set backs when i moved her little potty to the bathroom. ok it worked for me it might work for you and you child as well

[wright1212]

On the same note as mommyof4kids, if he likes privacy try a pup tent or large box to put the potty in so it is very private, OR put a small potty in the tub and close the curtain, OR maybe he wants his feet to touch so get a good stepstool or 2 to put at the potty, OR put a puptent around the actual potty, AND let him see you go, AND do lots of praise and prizes, AND when he goes in his room walk him to the potty take off the diaper dump poo in potty and say there it goes in the potty and flush. This will show him the concept-just in case he wasnt sure.

[niftykids]

My son would do the same thing; hide off in a corner somewhere and poop in his pants. He is almost 3 and has been fully potty trained for about 3 months now though. What worked for me was using poopy prizes. He is really into airplanes, so I bought a pack of matchbox airplanes and every time he went poopy in the potty I would get very excited and praise him and give him a "poopy prize." Within a week of starting the poopy prizes he was consistently pooping on the toilet. Good luck!
I wanted to ask about doing a prize. How often did you need to give him a prize? Does he still think he will get one now?

[proudmommy1]

My son was like that too. He would hide and cross his legs to hold in his poop. I was trying everything to try and make him go to the toilet but he wouldn't go infill I got so sick of it I just put him on the toilet and sat on the floor for a good half a hour intill it came out. There's no way they can hold it that long on the toilet. But man was he upset, but I kept on telling him just make poop and we are done but if not we are staying intill your done, and if he crys just bring him some books and read to him it worked for my son.

[malika84]

Hellos to struggling mums!
I am writing this message at 4AM not knowing what to do, how to react to my son's bedwetting which began a week ago.
He is 2 years and 2 months old and was fully potty trained when he was a year and a half. But bed wetting stopped two months ago. He would either stay dry or wake me up saying he wants to go to the toilet.
But suddenly about again a week ago he began bedwetting during the nightand refusing to go to the toilet to pee and doing it in his pants.
In the house nothing has changed and the atmosphere also the same.
Please, help me before it is too late. Maybe it is a sign of a bigger problem?