Catching My Dd Before She Poops!

do you give her a bath before bed? A lot of kids will poop then since they get relaxed. she is getting relaxed in her bed and is doing it there instead.
Maybe run the bath, ask her if she needs to poop, if not put her in the tub. After a few minutes in the tub ask her again if she needs to poop. (asking her will make her focus and she might discover she does need to go). If she still doesnt go after her bath.... WELL... I dont know what to tell ya. Too bad you cant get her to go in the AM instead of the PM, but everyones bowels are different. She sounds like she likes to be alone when she poops and thats what she waits for.
Maybe putting her on the potty in the evening with a book and leave her alone to poop might work, sounds like she doesnt like distractions while doing the deed.

you could leave the diaper off, put a good waterproof pad under the sheet. she has learned to poop in her diaper, it takes a while to unlearn that. does she have her own potty chair (or several in different rooms?)

They poop in the potty last and do so when they are ready to. Different foods, exercise, and time make us poop (think of your own routine). Although it hasn't always been this way, our daughter poops right in the middle of dinner.

i used the dum dum suckers for my ds

All I can say is good luck! This was an ongoing battle for us. She just finally got it one day. I will say that I was so sick of it I finally told her that I wouldn't buy any more pull-ups once the pack was gone (because that's all she'd poop in - she would either wait until bedtime or go put one on herself). Because of that she nighttime trained herself to save going thru them so fast. I also told her she couldn't take dance (like her big sis) until she could poo poo in the potty. It just took a lot of time and attention, reminders, etc and it eventually worked itself out. Your dd is still young. Don't sweat it too much - but good luck!!!

Sounds like maybe she's holding it in until she gets her diaper on. My DS did this for the longest time. He was a pro at going pee on the potty but would not poop on the potty. I basically had to bribe him into giving it a shot on the potty instead of needing to use a diaper (he would ask me for one when he had to go poop). I had used a sticker chart for pee, but I figured poop needed a bigger reward. He was (still is) obsessed with dinosaurs. So I bought a few big dinosaurs and showed them to him. I told him all he had to do was poop on the potty and he would get one. Worked like a charm. I bought some smaller dinosaurs for when the big ones were used up. Then some even smaller ones and then just stopped offering them. He stopped asking for them and just went on the potty. While I don't condone bribery --I certainly support it for potty training!! ;) Good luck!

I agree with many of the other posters, and like Grandma T's suggestion of a relaxing bedtime routine which invites your daughter to poop before bedtime.

Please remember that she is very young, still, and this is one area of toilet learning that children do need our patience with. If it were me, I'd keep using diapers (not pull-ups, which confuse things) and let her know that when *she's* ready, she may wear underpants when she can do one week of no-poop in the bedtime diaper.

As someone who has helped many families through the transition of teaching their child how to use the toilet, I would encourage you to let her lead on this. Usually, things that might require just a little more time from us--in regard to waiting a few months or so while she works through this-- can be confounded when we start adding a lot more distractions (like stickers, punishments or rewards); mainly this is because the adults blow it out of proportion. The natural 'reward' for pooping in the toilet is wearing underwear to bed. She may not be feeling ready to go without the diaper at night yet. I wonder, too, is she consistently staying dry all night after the poop diaper is changed?

Give it time and keep giving positive feedback every time she does try to poop before bedtime. Just a gentle "Ah, I see that you tried again. Maybe it will come out in the potty another time" and let it go. This will keep the pressure off and keep the invitation to use the toilet a friendly one.

My oldest did that too and what solved it for us was a trip to Hawaii. I have no idea why, but she did it before we left and hasn't done it since we got home! It might have been something to do with being in a bed that wasn't ours (and a lot of talk about making sure the bed stayed clean and dry.

Our daughter was a "diaper pooper" too. She had had issues with constipation and was afraid to use the potty. We progressed from us putting on the diaper and she using it, to her putting on the diaper by herself and then we cleaned her up, to only allowed to use the diaper in the bathroom to telling her "when these diapers are all gone you will need to use the potty" and reminding her that is was her choice on whether to try in the potty or use the diaper. She chose to use the diaper up to the last diaper and then seamlessly switched to the potty. This was a semi-long progression over probably 6 months. I think she was probably 3 and a half by the time she was fully potty trained. What are the factors around her unwillingness to use the potty? You may be able to "loose the diapers" earlier. We were limited by the constipation issues so we went slowly. Good luck and remember that she won't go to kindergarten using a diaper. It seems like forever when you are in this phase though.