Potty Training - Peoria,AZ

For my son who will be 3 this weekend, he actually started #2 in the toilet before potty. Now he's fine with either or. Good luck!

Is she in panties? I had my daughter throw out all her pullups and diapers and we went straight to panties. It took her 3 days to pp train and 3 weeks to poop train. She did not want to poop on the potty, so I had to give her time outs for pooping in her panties. The time outs worked in 1 day. I also give her the lovey to hug while pooping to get her through it. When she finally did poop on the potty, we made a HUGE deal about it and she got rewards (little cars or ponies) for a week. After 3 days of successfully pooping on the potty, it is a set behavior and you can start changing the rewards to more simple things. We now get a few M&Ms.

If she is holding it and getting constipated, get the pedialax fiber gummies and apple juice, prune juice, or pear juice. They will help soften the bowel movement and eventually, they have to go whether they like it or not. It takes a few times to feel the poop go into the potty before they figure out it's no big deal.

Good luck!

Since you daughter is old enough to get the idea of pooping in the potty, you may want to try this idea I heard. When she poops in her pull-up, take her to the potty and actually dump the poo in the potty and say "poop goes in the potty" then let her flush. If she poops in her diaper/pull-up and you throw it out then she doesn't actually see the result you want.

I heard that from a friend and it help her a lot. Good luck.

Depends on the kid. I think her age could either work for or against you. At four, she's definitely capable of understanding the IDEA of using the potty, so she might get it right ways, however, if she's been pooping in diapers this long, he might not care to stop.

My son did both together, but he had just turned 2. His friend was pooped trained before pee (sometimes kids have an easier time noticing they need to poop than that they need to pee).

At this age, it wouldn't hurt to just TELL her she needs to poop in the potty. She might not be clear that it's important to you and may need your guidance on this.

HTH
T.

We had a hard time with our son also. He would hide and go or go on the floor. He was fine in with potty but not #2. It was very frustrating. The doctor said to give him myrilax (sp?) laxative and then when we knew he had to go just sit him on the toilet sometimes it took 30 minutes but he would finally go. It only took a few weeks and a few times going on the toilet. I think then they find its easier to go on the toilet and the rest is happy history!!

It all depends on your child and what motivates them. My daughter was stubborn about the whole thing, we knew she could do it since she would wake up with a dry diaper, but until she wanted to do it, we were at her mercy. She finally realized that she would not move into the 3 yr old room at day-care until she was fully potty-trained. It only took a week after her 3rd birthday for her to be fully trained. I just think you need to find out what motivates them and what they really want and stick to it. Good luck!

As another lady responded... depends on the child.

My first daughter took 6 months... she was 4 1/2 when she finally became consistent with pooping in the toilet... let me tell you- I was sweating to get her into preschool! LOL

My second daughter (who will be turning 4 later this month) just finished potty training about a month ago... she was actually more consistent with pooping first. Afterwards, it took her a few months to consistently pee in the toilet.

My son is 2 1/2 and has no interest really... so we wait with him.

With both of the girls, I made a huge deal about them using the toilet. Lots of praise, lots of hugs, emailing daddy (or coming out and telling him), reward chart... lots of positive reinforcement.
And I will note that with my first I even tried negative reinforcement, where when she pooped in her underwear I would clean her off in a cold shower (this was at a point where she knew she had to poop, she just chose to not listen to her body)... obviously that didn't work.

She has been old enough to urinate and defecate in the toilet for at least a year... most children are potty trained between ages 2-3yrs and the older they are the the easier it should be. Two weeks tops... you might want to see if there is another problem. Ask your pediatrician... My girl and boy were both potty trained at age 2yrs, they were rewarded for using the toilet and we even had a little family party for my first... she was so excited. It took them both between 1-2 weeks with very few accidents. Hope this helps! Good Luck!