Potty Training---won't Poop in Toilet.

Here is a good option from Dr. Greene. http://www.drgreene.com/qa/learning-poop-potty

We are potty training my 27 month old right now and we told him the potty eats his poopy for breakfast so he has to feed it. I know. Totally bizarre but a friend gave me the tip and three days later he was pooping in the potty and says "I gotta feed the potty mommy".

was she ready to potty train or did you do it because she was 2? If she wasn't ready to potty train it may take longer. My cousin started her daughter at 2 and it took 4 months until she was reliably potty trained and they were also using pull-ups. We waited until my son was asking to use the potty on his own and he was trained in a week with no pull ups. She may just need more time. Good luck!

I can relate--I was ready to write a similar plea for help not too long ago and my son is 3 1/2! He had been completely pee-trained since age 2 1/2. Of course it depends on the individual child, but there was no magic trick that would make my son turn the corner to poop on the potty. I tried rewards, praise, encouragement, you name it. When I resorted to refusing to give him a pull-up when he asked for one to poop in, he simply held it in and didn't go for three days, crying and writhing in pain every time he felt it coming. Needless to say, I called that a fail and went back to pull-ups as needed just to get his system back on track, but that experience stayed with him and he continued to be afraid to poop for a long time after.

Finally, just a month or two ago, he agreed to "try" to go on the potty instead of putting on a pull-up; it worked and we've been pull-up free ever since! Looking back, there were gradual steps/changes that may have been leading to this accomplishment: wanting to see the poop in the pull-up or when other family members went in the toilet (gross I know but natural from what I've heard); implementing a rule that he had to go in the bathroom to poop in the pull-up; and then I would dump what I could from the pull-up into the toilet before taking it off of him.

In the end (no pun intended) he did it when he was ready. The things I tried may have helped, but nothing was going to get him to do it until then. Not what you probably were hoping for, but I hope it helps!

I haven't been there yet, but does she have the little portable potty? Does she maybe want this in her room, or near the stairs? Then you can move it into the bathroom? The first time my son peed in the potty, he wanted it in the kitchen (no idea why, but he went).

I know it sounds strange, but have you tried to leave her in the bathroom by herself to go yet? That is all my son wanted, was a little privacy! My son, too, had issues going #2 on the potty after we started potty training him. He did great and was potty trained in only a couple of days, but he resisted going #2. I tried all the things you mentioned, including staying in there with him, encouraging him and letting him know it was going to be okay, didn't work. Then one day I realized that he always went into another room to go #2 and I thought I would try stepping out of the bathroom to see if he would go and sure enough, he went. That was all he needed! So, give that a try and see if that helps! Good luck!

when we potty trainned we only allowed the pullup at naps and bedtime. If she is asking for the pullup to poop in don't give in say she is a big girl and needs to go in the toilet. You'll have some fun underwear clean ups but it won't take long.

When potty training my son, I did not put him in pull ups. They are expensive and the confuse those with diapers. She is not fully potty trained if she is pooping in pull ups. I do not want to sound discouraging but you need to be more firm. Take the pull ups away...She needs to run around the house without the pull up. When she says she needs to poop tell her that she needs to go on the toilet. I told my son no diaper,go on the elmo potty and I will buy you a pillow pet. He did it and was so excited. We made a nice day of it. He got a pillow pet and went on a train ride at the mall. He has not pooped other than on the potty since. He has been fully trained except once in a while will pee his pants if he is distracted or he can not hold it. He wakes up dry and he has not been in diapers since May. We started training in April and he was trained by June. Good luck. Be firm but fair. Bribery does work.

I had to poop in front of my dd a few times before she wanted to do it "just like mommy!" It was terrible for me, as I am really private with bathroom stuff, but it worked for her.

The only trick I know is the "bribery" or reward system others have mentioned. We had to use it with my son. For a long time, he wore a pull-up to bed when he wasn't nighttime trained. He would wait until he had that on to poop, so that he wouldn't have to poop in the toilet. So about 30 minutes after bedtime, he would start calling "Mommy, come change!" Ugh! Once we instituted a point system with Hot Wheels as prizes, he eventually came around, but it seemed to happen all at once. I think he just needed a little more time; I have friends who work in child care and they all told me he would grow out of it soon enough. And he did!

Give it time.
It truly is not a problem. Most kids do not fully train until 4 years old. It is just one of those that the child is not ready to relinquish control.

Personal experience. I have 2 daughters, the first has always been the typical 1st born- early language skills, writing at 3. It was harder for me to potty train her because I expected too much too soon. She trained after 3 and not by me. =). My 2nd was easier. Quiet honestly, I never expected her to train (she fully trained at 4 and it happened overnight). She is autistic and I expected it to take awhile. I just kept on trying and not pushing and one day just like that she gave up her sippy cup, diapers and had no accidents even at night.