I need help for sure. I feel like we have tried everything with Corilynn and nothing has helped. We potty trained her back in January and she has done so marvelously with the pee pee part but she has yet to ever tell us or conquer the pooping in the potty part.
Throughout the process we have made baby steps with her whenever we tried something to motivate her and then after a while that strategy stopped producing any more progress and she would regress back to no progress at all. We have tried having cool water baths after her accidents to "clean things up" and we have tried the motivational treats and we have tried the big toy from the store up high - that one she did well on for a few days and then she didn't care after a while and so we put it back up high.
Today she had three poop accidents all of which were while I was very near and could have been told. Also one of them was at the grocery story so it was particularly frustrating because of the mess. I am at my wits end with ideas and not sure how to approach this. If she were on any sort of schedule with her BMs then it would be easier to just go at that time and sit for a while to catch them but she has no kind of schedule. I go back and forth second guessing myself about if she was even ready to potty train or not but then she does just fine with the pee pee and goes on demand all the time etc. So I don't know.
Any suggestions or ideas? I am about to permanently tape a baby potty to her bum soon.
15 years ago
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We had the HARDEST time poop-training Ry. It was a total nightmare for almost a year. I swore that kid would not be trained before Kindergarten! (But he was...thank goodness) I would get so frustrated, which would make it worse. He quickly thought that pooping=a frustrated mom. So, he would hold it for a few days, then mess in his pants. He then learned that pooping=pain from holding it so long. Ended up with having to put him on prescription laxatives. Like I said, it was a nightmare. So, this time around with Logan I vowed to take a laid back approach. And that worked for us. I didn't make a deal out of it. I told him that he could poop in a diaper, or in the potty...but he needed to tell me before he pooped so we could get a diaper on. He would always tell me...and even though I was frustrated because I felt that if he KNEW he had to poop, he should just do it on the pot. I actually never had to clean out a poopy pair of underwear from him! Anyhow...one day he ended up just wanting to poop on the potty all by himself. He was the easiest to train by far, and I think it is because I just had a "whatever you want to do" attitude about it.
Don't know if that helps you at all...but just my experience.
Good luck!
Have you thought about putting her back in diapers? I realize I have absolutely NO experience in this area, but it seems like if she realizes that she needs to poop in the potty then she has to be back in diapers may be enough to inspire her to tell you... I don't know. Good luck.
I was finally reading your blog and had a little idea, though I know it may seem frustrating no matter what anyone says or suggests because NO one else is dealing with the poop...you are. What if you made it really exciting to come up with her own special word or sign (kinda like a secret handshake) to tell you when it was time to go...just a thought. Bear in mind though that I think from what I've heard trying to get a kid to go poop is a common hard thing with potty training. Hang in there Sis, this too shall pass....Whatever you do, don't second guess yourself - it just makes things all the more depressing - you are an awesome mom - just keep on keeping on!!!
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