Everybody poops
For the last two months, Jack and I have a running conversation at naptime that goes like this:
J: Poop?
A: You have to poop?
J: Yes.
A: Well let's poop on the potty!
J: NO POTTY. Poop bed.
A: Buddy, where should you poop? On the potty right?
J: Noooooo. Poop bed!
And when I put him on the potty, he jumps off after peeing and gleefully runs to his room yelling "Poop bed! Poop bed!" Guess what he does 30 seconds after I put him down for his nap -- that's right -- he poops in his bed.
It's driving me crazy because I know he knows when he has to go and is just screwing with me. OK, I know he's not doing it to me, but I would love to get him pooping in the potty. He even knows he'll get candy (M&Ms, which he has never had before except to try them last week so he would know how great they were and therefore would poop in the potty to get them) but does not care. He's been peeing in the potty with no problem several times a day since Jan. 1, but is still in diapers fulltime.
My pediatrician said in February not to go cold turkey with big boy pants and fullout training because it could cause him to withhold. But he's almost 2.5 now -- when is cold turkey acceptable?
He has astonishing regularity, pooping like clockwork in the morning when he wakes up and right before his nap. I was almost thinking about putting the potty chair in his crib right before his nap to see if I could get him to poop like that, but decided that would be unsanitary. Or would it?
And yes, I realize this child is going to need years of therapy someday when he sees I talked about his potty training on the interwebs.
J: Poop?
A: You have to poop?
J: Yes.
A: Well let's poop on the potty!
J: NO POTTY. Poop bed.
A: Buddy, where should you poop? On the potty right?
J: Noooooo. Poop bed!
And when I put him on the potty, he jumps off after peeing and gleefully runs to his room yelling "Poop bed! Poop bed!" Guess what he does 30 seconds after I put him down for his nap -- that's right -- he poops in his bed.
It's driving me crazy because I know he knows when he has to go and is just screwing with me. OK, I know he's not doing it to me, but I would love to get him pooping in the potty. He even knows he'll get candy (M&Ms, which he has never had before except to try them last week so he would know how great they were and therefore would poop in the potty to get them) but does not care. He's been peeing in the potty with no problem several times a day since Jan. 1, but is still in diapers fulltime.
My pediatrician said in February not to go cold turkey with big boy pants and fullout training because it could cause him to withhold. But he's almost 2.5 now -- when is cold turkey acceptable?
He has astonishing regularity, pooping like clockwork in the morning when he wakes up and right before his nap. I was almost thinking about putting the potty chair in his crib right before his nap to see if I could get him to poop like that, but decided that would be unsanitary. Or would it?
And yes, I realize this child is going to need years of therapy someday when he sees I talked about his potty training on the interwebs.
Labels: Jack, Potty Training
posted by Amy at
8:34 PM
3 Comments:
don't sweat it. This is a "boy" thing. my son did the same thing. I bought a potty dvd from Bear in the Big Blue House. Not sure if it worked right away, but Ethan was about the same age as your son when he was refusing to use the potty. It was shortly after that he did realize it was better going in the potty than having it smushed in his diaper. I do think we bribed him as well, he got lightning mcqueen cars whenever he pooped on the potty.
I think he's doing amazingly well for 2.5, though I certainly get your frustration since he definitely KNOWS when he needs to do the #2. :)
Would it make you feel any better if I tell you my son wasn't potty trained until 3.5? What finally did it was a combination of peer pressure from day care and a case of the runs (he couldn't NOT go on the potty...I know, sorry about the TMI).
Oh, and we had the Elmo potty video. Not sure it helped at all though. I'm convinced prune juice could be just as good of an investment.
My son was over 3, and when he was ready, he just did it. Granted, he peed without accidents first (so did my daughter) for about 3 months. He would ask for a diaper, poop, then have me change him back to his underwear. I did, no pressure, telling him it would be nice for him to poop on the potty. He laughed. Then, within 3 weeks or so, he just regularly pooped on the potty! One day, he told me had to go and after that there was no turning back. The first step is recognizing the feeling of needing to go, the rest will come. Don't worry - if he does when he's truly ready, the accidents will be few and far between. I've been working as a day care provider for years now and it seems that the process is pretty consistent. Hang in there!
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