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[trumansmom]

Argh. We are rapidly approaching the first anniversary of DS using the potty. Although he's doing a pretty good job of staying dry, he has yet to poop in the potty. Because of this, I've elected to keep him in Pull ups. Daycare is putting a lot of pressure on him to potty train, and in fact were sneaking big boy pants on him during the day until I told them to stop. DH and I have fought about it more times than I can count, but I sincerely believe that when the time is right, it will happen.

In the meantime, DS and I regularly discuss what DVD he will pick out when he poops in the potty (we have promised him that the first time he poops in the potty we will drop whatever we are doing and go straight to the store to get a new DVD. Daycare has been informed of this as well.), we sing our "Poop in the Potty" song CONSTANTLY, and we dump his poopy diapers in the potty and make a big deal of flushing every time. What else should I be doing?

Jeanne
Mom to Truman 11/29/01 and Eleanor 4/14/04

[brubeck]

Oh Jeanne I feel for you! I know it'a hard, but hang in there! It will happen eventually!

Can you tell when he is pooping? Does he make facial expressions or hide or some such? Does he poop at a usual time of day? I was able to get Amy to poop in the potty by playing with her when I suspected poop was coming. We would play together very closely. As soon as I saw her start to strain (she would get up if she were sitting on her bottom and then have a pained look on her face) I would tell her to stop, pick her up and run to the potty, whipping off pants as I went. Then when she sat on the potty I would hug her and sing to her and convince her to let the poopy out. After a couple of times of this I think she felt better about pooping in there.

I have heard that boys have a harder time pooping in the potty because they don't connect it with pee-type elimination. Apparently biology has made this association much easier in girls (plus the sitting-down-to-do-both thing). So there may be Moms of boys out there who can help you more.

Good luck!

[Kate888]

We've been using the book "Everyone Poops" and it seems to help a lot! Talking about poop helped reduce a lot of DD's anxiety. You can see the discussion here.

http://www.windsorpeak.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=42&topic_id=853&mesg_id=853&page=

Here is the link to the book:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0916291456/qid=1098224159/sr=2-3/ref=pd_ka_b_2_3/102-6308565-3225760

HTH :)


Kate
Mama to Maya 2-17-02 and Polo (my big black dog http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/dog.gif
and Baby #2 EDD 5/11/05 http://instagiber.net/smiliesdotcom/kao/otn/ptrose.gif