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Post by sudokufan on Aug 10, 2017 10:02:42 GMT -6
My DS was a reluctant potty pooper too; his ped advised not pushing it, but really emphasizing how nice it was to get clean and having clean pants/pull ups and how much more comfortable it is. So we took that tack, then one day when he'd had too much apple cider he DID go on the potty and was amazed to find he'd "pooped rocket ships" and we haven't had a problem since. (Yes, I've told this story here before. Still cracks me up that THAT is what it took for it to click for him) DS was about 3.2 at that point.
I'm not sure how to teach peeing on command - maybe some sort of target practice as an incentive to learn the control? I feel like that plus the novelty factor is why teaching little boys to pee outside works so well.
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Post by lucylou on Aug 10, 2017 10:22:26 GMT -6
Have you talked to the teacher or school about the potty training requirement? It sounds like he is mostly trained except poop. I know in my kids 3.5-4 class there were still kids that were in diapers. I think schools liek to push it but I don't know if they enforce it if you know what I mean. Hopefully they will let him start and work with his issues. Once they are trained they still need help getting the pants up and down for a while. They still need help wiping even if it is in the toilet. I pushed it before we started and she said something about if there are kids in diapers in a class, the staffing ratio has to be more. They don't even have changing tables in the room. If anything, I think I would have to see if they were willing to keep him in the 2.5 class a bit longer.
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Post by Sunny41 on Aug 10, 2017 10:44:11 GMT -6
Have you talked to the teacher or school about the potty training requirement? It sounds like he is mostly trained except poop. I know in my kids 3.5-4 class there were still kids that were in diapers. I think schools liek to push it but I don't know if they enforce it if you know what I mean. Hopefully they will let him start and work with his issues. Once they are trained they still need help getting the pants up and down for a while. They still need help wiping even if it is in the toilet. I pushed it before we started and she said something about if there are kids in diapers in a class, the staffing ratio has to be more. They don't even have changing tables in the room. If anything, I think I would have to see if they were willing to keep him in the 2.5 class a bit longer. But a pull up doesn't require a table. And kids at this age are going to have accidents the teachers have to clean up. Even if a kid is pooping in the toilet the teachers will assist in wiping. My point is that if you get to a point where he is using the potty for pee or wearing pull ups you might be ok. Lots of kids also wear them at nap time too.
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Post by macic on Aug 10, 2017 10:56:29 GMT -6
My 3 year old girl just got pee trained. We are struggling with poop. She withholds. Is going once or twice a week. With mirlax. If you find a magic solution, please share! My pedis office was no help.
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Post by lucylou on Aug 10, 2017 11:46:59 GMT -6
My 3 year old girl just got pee trained. We are struggling with poop. She withholds. Is going once or twice a week. With mirlax. If you find a magic solution, please share! My pedis office was no help. I've read this as a sort of last resort option, not sure if it would work for her or not. Let her wear a diaper to poop but only in the bathroom or while sitting on the toilet. That's probably what I'll go to if DS ends up constipated. Just not sure how to time it all out. I guess when he starts acting uncomfortable I stick one on him and settle in for the long haul in the bathroom? I've read to take it one step further and when they're comfortable with that, cut a hole in the diaper so the poop falls into the toilet. I hope and pray it doesn't come to that lol
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Post by macic on Aug 10, 2017 11:58:39 GMT -6
My 3 year old girl just got pee trained. We are struggling with poop. She withholds. Is going once or twice a week. With mirlax. If you find a magic solution, please share! My pedis office was no help. I've read this as a sort of last resort option, not sure if it would work for her or not. Let her wear a diaper to poop but only in the bathroom or while sitting on the toilet. That's probably what I'll go to if DS ends up constipated. Just not sure how to time it all out. I guess when he starts acting uncomfortable I stick one on him and settle in for the long haul in the bathroom? I've read to take it one step further and when they're comfortable with that, cut a hole in the diaper so the poop falls into the toilet. I hope and pray it doesn't come to that lol Last week, I had to use a glycerin suppository and put a pull up on her just to get her to go after 5 days. Her tummy hurt so bad. She needed to get it out. Once it was out, she was so much better. We are almost at that point again. 😞
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Post by lucylou on Aug 10, 2017 12:16:37 GMT -6
I've read this as a sort of last resort option, not sure if it would work for her or not. Let her wear a diaper to poop but only in the bathroom or while sitting on the toilet. That's probably what I'll go to if DS ends up constipated. Just not sure how to time it all out. I guess when he starts acting uncomfortable I stick one on him and settle in for the long haul in the bathroom? I've read to take it one step further and when they're comfortable with that, cut a hole in the diaper so the poop falls into the toilet. I hope and pray it doesn't come to that lol Last week, I had to use a glycerin suppository and put a pull up on her just to get her to go after 5 days. Her tummy hurt so bad. She needed to get it out. Once it was out, she was so much better. We are almost at that point again. 😞 Oh no! That sounds awful. I'm so sorry your ped isn't more helpful. I would be hot pissed about that.
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Post by cyprissa on Aug 10, 2017 12:36:53 GMT -6
I've read this as a sort of last resort option, not sure if it would work for her or not. Let her wear a diaper to poop but only in the bathroom or while sitting on the toilet. That's probably what I'll go to if DS ends up constipated. Just not sure how to time it all out. I guess when he starts acting uncomfortable I stick one on him and settle in for the long haul in the bathroom? I've read to take it one step further and when they're comfortable with that, cut a hole in the diaper so the poop falls into the toilet. I hope and pray it doesn't come to that lol Last week, I had to use a glycerin suppository and put a pull up on her just to get her to go after 5 days. Her tummy hurt so bad. She needed to get it out. Once it was out, she was so much better. We are almost at that point again. 😞 I would talk to your pedi again...this is how kids develop encopresis which is extremely difficult to treat and deal with. I would push them for a plan to nip the Constipation in the bud now.
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Post by macic on Aug 10, 2017 12:46:02 GMT -6
Last week, I had to use a glycerin suppository and put a pull up on her just to get her to go after 5 days. Her tummy hurt so bad. She needed to get it out. Once it was out, she was so much better. We are almost at that point again. 😞 I would talk to your pedi again...this is how kids develop encopresis which is extremely difficult to treat and deal with. I would push them for a plan to nip the Constipation in the bud now. His plan is Miralax. But we've been doing that for 3 months!! I called yesterday and my pedi was out (it's gotten worse since potty training). I have an appt today for my twins, so I'm going to bring it up and see if he needs to see her or what. It's terrible. The problem is her poop is really not hard, if she'd go every day. It's just that she won't go. She holds it and holds it. I've tried EVERY incentive.
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Post by cyprissa on Aug 10, 2017 12:51:22 GMT -6
I would talk to your pedi again...this is how kids develop encopresis which is extremely difficult to treat and deal with. I would push them for a plan to nip the Constipation in the bud now. His plan is Miralax. But we've been doing that for 3 months!! I called yesterday and my pedi was out (it's gotten worse since potty training). I have an appt today for my twins, so I'm going to bring it up and see if he needs to see her or what. It's terrible. The problem is her poop is really not hard, if she'd go every day. It's just that she won't go. She holds it and holds it. I've tried EVERY incentive. My older one struggled a lot with this and it has caused so much stress in our family. Miralax doesn't really work for him. We ended up resorting to a crazy high amount of fruit and dried fruit plus things like peas and daily juice and dulcolax stool softener (Docusate sodium). It was a lot of trial and error.
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