Twoboos
12-09-2006, 08:15 AM
(Originally posted in Toddler board, but after 2 days & 4 views, moved here!)
I have been a loooong time lurker on BBB and hope that you all can help!
My now 3yr 1mo old started potty training in August and within a couple of months was doing very well. She has had constipation issues for a very long time, but with diet and miralax we can keep everything moving for the most part.
In mid-Oct she didn't poop for a week. We gave her an enema to clean her out. Then she didn't go for another week, and on the advice of a GI dr gave her exlax until she went on her own, which happened on Oct 29.
Since then she has not pooped on the potty. She will go small amounts in her panties all day long, sometimes up to 6 times a day. She knows it's coming as she runs under the table or in a corner, it's not an accident. She will also go in her pullup at naptime. I realize she has had a trauma and is probably scared to go. Although to confuse matters, in the bath about 3 weeks ago said she had to poop, DH put her on the potty and voila, poop with no problem! I thought we had turned the corner but not so.
I bought literally 30 pairs of panties and I toss them if they are super messy (I can only handle so much poop). I have tried being encouraging, telling her she will go when she's ready, how big girls poop on the potty not in their pants, bribing with m-n-m's, offering big prizes, telling her she will be wearing diapers again... nothing seems to work.
Note that she continues to pee on the potty with no problem, which is why I am very hesitant to put her back into diapers/pullups full time. I know she'll just pee in there out of laziness (as she does at naptime) and am afraid it will be 100% regression.
Any thoughts or advice?? I know she has to "get there" on her own but any ideas on how to make it happen faster are welcome. Between her and her younger sister I am back to changing 10 poops a day and it is making me crazy. Not to mention bleeding hands due to winter weather!! I am at my wits end, 6 weeks of this!
Thanks!
I have been a loooong time lurker on BBB and hope that you all can help!
My now 3yr 1mo old started potty training in August and within a couple of months was doing very well. She has had constipation issues for a very long time, but with diet and miralax we can keep everything moving for the most part.
In mid-Oct she didn't poop for a week. We gave her an enema to clean her out. Then she didn't go for another week, and on the advice of a GI dr gave her exlax until she went on her own, which happened on Oct 29.
Since then she has not pooped on the potty. She will go small amounts in her panties all day long, sometimes up to 6 times a day. She knows it's coming as she runs under the table or in a corner, it's not an accident. She will also go in her pullup at naptime. I realize she has had a trauma and is probably scared to go. Although to confuse matters, in the bath about 3 weeks ago said she had to poop, DH put her on the potty and voila, poop with no problem! I thought we had turned the corner but not so.
I bought literally 30 pairs of panties and I toss them if they are super messy (I can only handle so much poop). I have tried being encouraging, telling her she will go when she's ready, how big girls poop on the potty not in their pants, bribing with m-n-m's, offering big prizes, telling her she will be wearing diapers again... nothing seems to work.
Note that she continues to pee on the potty with no problem, which is why I am very hesitant to put her back into diapers/pullups full time. I know she'll just pee in there out of laziness (as she does at naptime) and am afraid it will be 100% regression.
Any thoughts or advice?? I know she has to "get there" on her own but any ideas on how to make it happen faster are welcome. Between her and her younger sister I am back to changing 10 poops a day and it is making me crazy. Not to mention bleeding hands due to winter weather!! I am at my wits end, 6 weeks of this!
Thanks!