Getting toddler to poo on potty/toilet

We had to bribe ours with chocolate every time she did a poo. She was pooing her knickers every time and it worked. 4-5 months down the line she occasionally asks for chocolate when she’s done one 🤣🤣

Might be worth getting some movicol (osmotic laxitive) to soften everything up so he HAS to go!

@Rachel he is on movicol aha seems like he can hold it very well

Ah potentially something like Senna then? A stimulant? We had a chronic withholder so had all the drugs 🤣

My little girl will only poo in her pants. She will hold it in until you’re not looking and then do it in her pants. It’s such a pain

My daughter does this too!! It’s incredibly frustrating because she absolutely knows she needs a poo and refuses to ask us or take herself to the toilet. We have the odd good day and lots of bad. She recently went in to the cupboard under the stairs ‘playing hide and seek’ and did a small poo because she could no longer hold it in and then wiped her bum with the cloth thing from our floor steamer!🤦🏼‍♀️ I did have a sly chuckle but was so annoyed as the cupboard is literally next door to the toilet! 🙄 She got worse when my son was born so think it’s an attention/protest thing so trying not to get angry about it but it’s so hard!

Poo was frustrating, as she had been nappy-free during the day and night for a long time. We got her a motivation chart. There was something she really wanted, so we told her that if she did a poo in the potty (and later the toilet) seven times in a row, she would get it. The rule was also that she had to keep using the potty or toilet afterwards. We drew seven numbered circles on a piece of paper, and at the end, we put a picture of the thing she wanted. She was super excited and very proud to cross off a number each time. One day, she got very upset. After four days of transitioning from potty to toilet, she used the potty again. I decided to bin the whole paper and start a new one from scratch — and it worked.

The transition from nappy to potty worked on the first try. We also bought her a Kinder egg for each circle, as we found that moving from nappies to the potty was more difficult than the potty-to-toilet step. Nothing else helped. And if we tried to hide the nappies or stg else, she would hold it and potentially she would have gotten blocked — so it wasn’t worth it.