Ds1 has effectively been toilet trained for about 9 months. It was a breeze and we have had hardly any accidents except that he flat out REFUSES to poo on the toilet. He knows he needs to and will ask for a nappy when he needs to poo. If he doesn't get a nappy he holds it till he does get one. As soon as the nappy goes on he retreats to a quiet place, does his business and comes back and asks for his knickers. I know this is common but has anyone worked out a way to convince them to poo on the toilet? We have tried treats and we currently have a big Lego train in the lounge room which he will get when he does a poo on the toilet but nope! He refuses.
He also has decided that he won't use the toilet at child care. He waits till sleep time when he gets his nappy and will happily sit on the toilet but won't do anything. The girls must think im loopy as I always say that he is perfect at home but at child care he just won't go! Any advice, opinions or experiences would be very much appreciated.
My DD was the same with poos. She was toilet trained from about 20mths, but refused to poo on the loo. She always knew when she needed to go and would aske for a nappy. She didn't do a poo on the loo until she was about 2 and a bit. We tried regularly to get her to do it, reading to her on the toilet, timing it to when she usually went, singing on the toilet ect....but nothing helped until one day DH bribed her with a chocolate and it worked. I have no idea why then, but it worked and since then she did poos on the loo.
With the day caer thing, he probably just isn't that comfortable to do his business there. If he's ok to sit on the toilet and can hold it (though not ideal or terribly healthy for him) I would say to just persevere with it, keep taking him to the toilet there and one day he will probably just do it.
Same problem here. DD1 especially would just hold it for days and ended up with severe constipation. We did a treat based thing after everything else had failed - they got a butterfly sticker for each poo they did, and once they had three butterfly stickers we went to the toy shop and they could choose any toy they wanted. Thankfully they never wanted much!! It took a couple of weeks but after they managed the first poo in the toilet there were then no problems.
TT and poo. Opinions needed.
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