LUCA Y U NO POOP IN POTTY?

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About two weeks ago, Luca decided he wasn’t interested in nappies anymore and that he would far prefer “unders”. So, with much excitement, I raced over to Woolies, bought 4 jumbo packs of “unders” as well as a seat and step from Baby City.

I got home and he proudly donned his “unders”, quite happy to chuck his pull-up nappy in the bin and announce “I’M A BIG BOY!” Two minutes later (after asking him 37 times if he needed a wee), a little yellow puddle formed between his legs on the lounge floor. Okay. No problem … wee’ll get there. This was a Wednesday afternoon.

On Thursday morning, I waited until the last moment before removing his nappy and replacing it with a pair of red and white striped “unders”. We made it all the way to school with no accidents and, when I fetched him from school, I was told that he’d just had one small accident but that he was doing well. Cool!

As we get home, I ask Luca, “Bubaloo, do you need to wee?” “NO MOM! I already made a wee at school!” Okay. That afternoon, on returning from work, he BOLTED to the front door to announce proudly that he’d “MADE A POO IN THE TOILET MOM!”, which Anna confirmed as the truth. I almost wished they hadn’t flushed the little brown bugger, so that I could have seen it to believe it.

Today, about two weeks later, he is only in “unders”. But there arestilldaily accidents. I fetched him from school and he was in the same pants in which he’d been dropped off this morning. SUCCESS! We get home and I ask him if he needs a wee – “Yes mom!” he says. We grab a book on the way to the loo and he sits comfortably while I read The Clever Stick, anxiiously awaiting a trickle or, even better, a *PLOP*. Nada.

We pop back into the kitchen to grab a bite to eat and just as I’m about to leave I think, let me give it another go. I ask him if he needs a wee and he says, “YES!” then stops to “think”. “Mom” he says … “I need to make a poo”. Is this IT? Does he know the difference between needing a poo and already having done a poo?

NOPE.

As I walked toward him to take his hand and lead him to the throne, he started to back away, with a worried look in his eyes. “Um … mom?” he mumbled, “I need to change my napp … uh … my unders”.

So this, dear readers, is where I call on you for help. He’s 3 and a bit. It’s not “too early” to start. He expressed a keen interest in his “unders”. How do we get this right? How do I make him understand that he needs to tell me BEFORE he poops, that he needs to poop?

HELP!

13 thoughts on “LUCA Y U NO POOP IN POTTY?”

  1. I say well done Nicki and Luca. I have no advice but for getting as far as you have well done. And as Dori from finding Nemo would say “just keep swimming swimming swimming” so just keep trying and trying and trying. Good luck

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  2. Eeek i remember this, well not so much cause wit fishe he would go poop in the garden and then proudly tell me that joon ate it *gag*
    Still not sure how we managed it. He just turned around and told me he’s not a baby.
    THOUGH i did te underwear thing in te beginning and found he had accidents but once i stopped the undies and just put his pants on he stopped having them.
    Can happily say that we were fully potty trained before 2 1/2
    Also, let him know it’s okay to wee in te garden (if you don’t mind it) fish’s fave is still “wateeing the flowers”

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  4. He is doing great! What an achievement to do a poo in the toilet in the first week – amazing. Oliver is only just getting that right at 3 and a half. Read my blog on this Nix “what’s in a pot?”…there is no right time each to their own but he will be watching his mates at school and learning from them. Introduce the star chart for poos in the loo – worked for mine :)

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  5. Hi Nix. Just keep doing what you doing, dont stress, we went through the same with Elih, persistance, thats all! Luca will get there, and dont forget to praise him even if he didnt make it to the loo, just wearing unders is a big enough acclompishment, shame little guy xxx

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  6. We’re at the exact same stage. Also two weeks ago Ava decided she was no longer a baby and insisted on wearing “underpants” note not panties but underpants. The wee’ing in the toilet was a breeze but not the pooping. I have become a pro and scraping chocolate droppings out of underpants, off the lounge floor and next to the toilet but we’re two weeks in and we’ve yet to poop in the toilet!
    So my question would be: Luca and AVA why you no poop in the toilet????

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  9. My son has been in potty training class since Feb. He turns 3 end of July. He still shows absolutely no interest in going potty at home. Apparently he does it at school but he still usually comes home with 2 or 3 wet pants plus they take them to the potty every half hour. He is probably sick and tired of the potty!! But his poops and wees still seem to catch him by surprise too. He pooped in the bath the other day and jumped up in surprise and shouted ‘I pooed’ after he just did it. This leads me to believe that he really can’t yet tell when he needs to go, so I am not stressing about it. He still wears nappies at home.

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  11. Hi there, our son Geovan have the same problem. He is turning 3 in November, peeing under the tree or in the toilet is a breez, but no pooping in the toilet aswell. I just cleaned his bottom once again after a nice poop in the pants infront of the tv, and turned my attention to google to to flush this problem away. If there is any help or tips please send them on to me, we have been cleaning poop sins Jan this year and I cant clean any more.
    Regards,
    George

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