Getting Daughter to Poop on Toilet

Yes, pooping does take time and we were frustrated as well. Our daughter was 3 1/2 when she finally went. Our daughter would only poop (in her diaper) when she would go down for a nap or lay down in th evening. I thought of many ways to encourage her and I found one that FINALLY worked. A treat for my daughter is to eat at Burger King, we don't do it very often and when we do she knows it something special. So when the olympics was on TV, I told her that everytime she went poop on the potty she would get a gold medal (I created them out of construction paper so she could tape them to the wall) and when she received 10, we would take her to BK. She layed down for her nap and told my husband she pooped in her diaper. When he looked it was stuck to her bottom so he had her sit on the potty. He told her to grunt, it fell off and she really thought she did it. She wasn't scared anymore and she just took off from there, it was amazing! I never thought she would go! Good Luck!

J.,

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W. Young, LMSW, BCD...mom o' three
www.kidlutions.com

Just want to say that I'm in the EXACT same situation as you when it comes to our son pooping. I no longer work outside of the home, so we don't have to worry about sending him to daycare with a diaper, but he asks me for one whenever he has to go. Our little boy was also born in May 2006. We just had our second baby boy two weeks ago. I'll watch for whatever advice you get. I recently asked the same question and the responses were pretty much - wait until he's ready.

Hi J.,

This seems to be the hardest thing for children to catch on to. I usually just try to catch them in the act and sit them on the potty at that time. Once you do this a couple of times they will realize that it doesn't hurt, or whatever they think wil happen, doesn't, and they will start going on the potty every time. It usually is such a relief to them that it doesn't take long for them to do it all the time once they do it a couple of time.

Good Luck!

C.