Ds was the same. He had easy access to the nappy packet and would go and grab a nappy when he needed to do one.. he had tried the toilet on and off and loved to sit there and wipe his bum, but never actually poo'd on there!! lol This went on for MONTHS!!! He was TT at night, during the day (being a boy though he did and still does alot of his wee's outside on a tree!!! lol) Any way, one day when he was nearly three... i ran out of nappies in the packet.. i still had the odd one in a nappy bag etc, but the packet ran out. he went to get one and realised there wasnt any there!!!!! So we set up his seat, he sat and nothing. So i left the special seat on the toilet and we kept playing.. about 5 minutes later he went racing down the hallway and all by himself he did apoo on the loo!!!! Lots of praise and congrats and hugs and he never did a poo in a nappy again!!! (DD was still in nappies, so i kept the packet in the cuboard where he couldnt reach just in case.. but he never asked for one again!!!
I think for DS it was a bit of independance thing.. he liked having his nappy on and he would go off and do his business.. while i was trying to TT i always stayed with him for support lol coz i was trying to be encouraging and seeing what he was doing.. but once he was able to just do it himself, it all clicked!!
DS was the same until just before he turned 4. He sorted it in his own time. He knew what was happening/about to happen and if he was refused a nappy he just did it in his pants. Can't remember what worked, think it was a combination of him having to admire DH and I pooing on the loo and being made to empty the poo from his pants/nappy into the loo, because "that's where poo lives". Time works out many "problems".
My nephew did this. He was wearing undies but would ask for his 'poo nappy', go off then come back to get changed back into his pants. He eventually grew out of it
We had to instigate a pretty high value bribe - poos in the toilet = icecream on a stick.
We also gave the poo a name and discussed that "Boris wanted to be in the toilet".
It was very annoying - he would go and hide when he needed to pooh so we couldn't put him on the loo. But eventually he got there.
And we made changing pooey nappies slow and fastidious - so we could explain that just wiping a bum was much quicker!
We are having a similar problem, except he's refusing nappies when they are offered, so it's in undies every single time. He's dry overnight, so it's frustrating to have to put him in pull ups when we go out, if he seems like he's going to do a poo soon.
The Flying Butter - today we started getting Sam to empty the poo into the toilet himself to hopefully get the image in his brain. He was bribed with chocolate to sit on the potty for a while, and was there for a good ten minutes. No action, though. He holds on and holds on until he can finally hold on no longer and goes in his pants. Nothing we can do can convince him to actually try.
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