Potty Training

This is random but my son has taken to pooing standing up on the toilet.. just in case it's an option 🤔😂

This is exactly the same as my daughter. We are just persevering with it, if we spot her start straining I just get her on the potty and sometimes she will do one and we massively praise her in the hope she will start to eventually do it properly

This was the same for my little boy at first. Took a good few weeks and eventually he got it. Now he's happy to go. We started potty training at the end of December. For us it was basically down to conversation about the body, how tummy aches are hurtful and he shouldn't hold it and watching us go so he could see it was safe and fine. I have heard some say they are scared as it's a funny feeling of it not being smashed into their nappy but actually dropping into the toilet 🤔 maybe x

@Georgia 😂 Anything is an option

@Katie I spotted him doing this tonight and scooped him up quickly and put him on the toilet He managed to do one and I was very over the top with celebrations Hope you become successful soon 🤞🏼

@Charlotte thank you this gives me hope x

@Chloe yeah that’s exactly what I do. Hopefully we get there with them. X

My best friend works in a nursery and said a trick that works for a lot of their kids is to place an open nappy in the bottom of the potty. Don’t know why it works but it does 🤷🏼‍♀️

We had this for 3 weeks, every time she did it in her pants we would take it to the potty and put it in and say here’s where our poo poo goes let’s flush it and say bye bye and eventually one day she woke up and did it and she’s done it ever since. It was a long 3 weeks of tears and stress for us both, she would either hold it in or do it in her pants, i was so close to putting a nappy back on but we stuck to it and eventually she just got it herself with lots of encouragement and praises. It’s hard but keep going he will get it 😅

We are the same. It's so bad at the moment that the GP prescribed Movicol to make it easier and less "scary". Little man tries to hold it in and then it becomes very painful and then he screams - and we just cannot seem to get out of the cycle 😭

@Tasha this sounds promising Thank you

@Sas we are exactly the same. Have been on movicol for 6 months Things looked better so they said to start doing one every other day and it got so much worse again. I don’t know how to get out of this cycle either Hope you get there soon

My son was exactly like this, petrified of doing a poo on the toilet but fine with wees. Give them something to watch/read/focus on whilst on the toilet when you think they need to go, this should hopefully relax/distract them from holding it in. We went over the top on celebrating when he did do one, we would FaceTime all his grandparents after and tell them he’d done a poo on the toilet and they would praise him too. We offered small presents if he done it, after he’d done it we’d say to him see that was okay wasn’t it, that wasn’t scary etc. and also we would name his older cousins or friends and say ‘xyz does a poo on the toilet as well’. Essentially just heavy on the praise from us and involved other family members too to praise him - 3.5 months on and he’s still so proud and happy to tell us he’s done a poo 😅