DD won't poop on the potty

[ijack]

Don't push it at all. Let her do her thing.

[Deleted]

Yeah, no sense fighting it. Poop usually takes quite a long time after the pee training. It's scary to them & unnatural to poop sitting vs. squatting. It takes a lot of patience.

[satama]

I think this is pretty common. DS was pee trained first and would just wait until nap or bedtime to poop because he knew we put a pull up on for sleeping. I want to say that went on for a couple of weeks.

What finally got him to go on the potty was bribery. I bought him a spiderman toy and told him he could have it when he went poop on the potty. After that we did mnms or stickers for a couple of weeks. If bribery wont work, I would let her use a diaper if she will at least tell you when she needs to poop, then put her back in underwear.

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Jan 3, 2013 22:11:40 GMT -5 L said:

Yeah, no sense fighting it. Poop usually takes quite a long time after the pee training. It's scary to them & unnatural to poop sitting vs. squatting. It takes a lot of patience.

DD is training with both right now and having success with both, but it was definitely WAY more scary for her to poop on the potty than to pee. The first time she did it she was very apprehensive and we sat there patting her back as she did it. We also let her play a game on the iPhone that she loves which I think took her mind off her fear and let her relax enough to poop. We have been training for a week and she usually poops first thing in the morning before we come to get her, but she has had two successful potty poops and one very small poop accident.

We also have taught her to put her feet on the toilet seat to simulate a squatting position while she poops and this seems to make her more comfortable. Whether we will regret this in the future or not, only time will tell....

[dutchgirl678]

It's really common for that to come a few months after learning to pee on the potty. Luckily for us DD would do it mostly in her diapers at nap time or at night until she learned to do it on the potty. Try not to get upset with her, she'll figure it out.

[DarcyLongfellow]

Bribery (aka positive reinforcement) all the way.

The first time DD pooped on the potty, she got so much attention/treats it was insane. A toy that we'd said was just for that, M&M's the whole time she sat on the potty trying, a cookie, and a sticker.

After that, she got M&M's and a sticker on her sticker chart AND a toy from the toy basket (filled with $1 toys). Every single time. She took forever to poop train -- she would just go in her panties. For MONTHS. It was miserable. My DD was older, but I had to resort to some negative reinforcement -- she had to plop the poop from the panties into the potty (with help, of course) and we talked about how we like to keep our big girl panties nice and clean and not get them all yucky and poopy because poo poo goes in the potty, not in your panties.

[Shreddingbetty]

DD PT at 26 months and did both right from the start (and never used any bribes because she initiated it). But the first 3-4 months it would often take several "attempts" before she would go because she just couldn't relax. I think part of it was that when she got the urge she had to be on the potty within seconds or the urge would pass and then we would have to wait again. I ended up playing with her in her sister's room (she doesn't live with us but has a great doll house in her room from when she was little) when I knew she was needing to go. It was nice and quiet without any distractions. She would happily play and I would plop her on the potty when she mentioned needing to go. In the past 6 weeks she can actually tell me she needs to go and if it takes a few minutes to get to the potty she can usually still "perform". Prior to PT we would dump her poop out into the toilet and wave/say goodbye to it. Not sure if that helped with any potential fears or not. And every time we did that I would ask her "where does poop go" and she would say potty. She also sticks her butt out and goes "ohhh" when she has to go #2 so that makes it a bit easier to realize what's happening. Does your DD do anything like that? My DD has always liked to show everyone when she goes potty. She was never the kid that likes to go find a quite spot to go poop (like her friend) so maybe that helped :-).

Good luck! Not sure if there are any magic tricks really. Bribes never worked for us.it just sort of happened and I will nver know if anything I did actually helped it or not.

[jena]

My weird poop training story...

Dd was obsessed with families and grouping things as families (have 2 toy cars, one must be mommy and one is baby. Put the blocks away, they need to be with their family, etc) So we used this idea with poop. Poop lives in the potty, when you flush it goes to be with its family. This, combined with insane clapping, cheering and singing for positive reinforcement were what we did. Dd was under 2y when we did this.

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[Deleted]

Miralax. In all seriousness you just have to wait it out. DS3 was pee trained at 3.5 but didn't start going poop on the potty regularly until 2 weeks ago. (he'll be 5 next month). He pooped every night in his diaper.

[frlcb]

DS was potty trained right before he turned 3 but wouldn't poop on the potty for 6 months after that, he would ask for a pull up and go in that. We didn't push it and he finally did it on his own

[agrippa]

DS didn't poop train until 8 months after he pee trained. He just asked for a pull up when he needed to go. We had a "poop in the bathroom" rule, but we didn't really push it otherwise.

[lindyanne]

Bribery and patience. We also used books and a PT'ing app on my phone.