I decided it was time a couple of months ago for my 3 yo to try using the potty. After a few days she was going pp in the potty. She has been pretty good about going as long as you encourage her or catch her doing the dance and get her in there. She is not trained at night yet. My issue now is pooping. I have had constipation problems with both my girls so when we started potty training i decided to give her miralax daily until she was comfortable going poo in the potty. I usually have to give her flaxseed daily but i am only doing the miralax now. I know one day she will be comfortable and then i will stop. It has been since June and she still holds it for days. She has gone in the potty a handful of times but is not consistent. Lots of times she goes at night or in her panties. I know she needs to go everyday, she used to go 3-5 x a day when she was in a diaper. She has gone a couple of times in the potty and u would not believe how much came out of such a tiny little girl!!! This can not be good for her body. I am going to call the nurse to see what else i can do but wanted to ask you mom's what you have done. How long did it take before your little one would go on the potty? How long did they hold it for? Today would have been 6 days since she last went but luckily she went in her nite diaper. I am not scolding her for having "accidents", i just want her to go somewhere if its not gonna b the potty. But what more can i do to get her to poo in the toilet? I have tried many different bribes....the latest one being when she fills the cup with coins we go to chuky cheese. Doesn't seem to be motivating her. Should i b worried or will this work out eventually?? TIA
I don't have a good answer for getting her to go to the potty but I do have a recommendation to keep her regular and that is Ovaltine. It worked like a charm on my toddler daughter in keeping her regular and she loved the taste of it in milk. Best of luck to you and hope you find a good solution to this problem.
I am in the exact same boat:-(. Started in June, doing great with #1 but can't get him to voluntarily go #2 in potty. He tries to hold it for a couple/few days at a time (at this point like you I just want him to go anywhere). At the suggestion of his preschool teacher from last year, I'm now offering him choices-he can have his diaper, a poopy pullup or go on the potty. And I've been counting down to the start of school-that when school starts he'll get his special batman underwear and go poo in the potty, and batman likes to stay clean. So we'll see what happens next week! My son is a few months younger than all his little buds and when they went through the potty training they all had various issues with #2 and it took a little longer so I'm trying to be patient but I too hate watching him be uncomfortable holding it I just hope it all comes together soon. Good luck!
Sometimes it takes children well into their 4s before they are completely potty trained. Some kids take to it a lot faster than others. It seems like the poo is always last to train. lol
It will work eventually. You just have to keep encouraging her. You may have to alternate pull ups/panties. Just so that she can go poo. If she keeps holding it in like she does, she is going to end up with stomach problems and she will become very uncomfortable.
My son ended up holding it in too, and I had to let him use a pull up so he will go. Then he would go into the bathroom with daddy and the more he saw that it was natural for us to use the potty, he started to also.
If your daughter has any little friends that she plays with that are potty trained completely, you can see if that parent will allow you to use their child as an influence. Children learn from other children a lot faster than they do with us. lol
Wow - that sounds very similar to my daughter. We were there until about a month ago and it was NO FUN! We tried everything in the book to get her to poop and incentives did nothing. She was holding, too.
You could try giving your daughter a liquid suppository if she is holding just to clean her out and show her that she can go on the potty. My threshhold for this is every 3 days, but you know your daughter's system best. I think the more they go on the potty, the less scary it is or the less control they feel by holding. The box says it takes 15-60 min, but I found it to be much closer to 15 minutes.
I would keep her on the miralax until you are over the hump because hard poops can hurt and that will only make her want to hold more. You could also just cut all of the cutesy games and incentives and tell her she has to stay in the bathroom (not necessarily on the potty, but in the bathroom) until poop comes on the potty. It sounds mean, but it worked for us in a surprisingly short period of time.
Good luck to you!! Potty training is no fun, especially when there are delays and resistance!
