Issues with going number 2’s
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Topic: Issues with going number 2’s
Posted By: RoSee
Subject: Issues with going number 2’s
Date Posted: 08 January 2012 at 4:24pm
I'm hoping this might ring a bell with someone out there who may be able to offer some advice. DS is nearly 3 and has always been a bit funny about doing number twos. He will disappear, go and hide in his room for half an hour or more and if I go to check on him and open the door he freaks out and asks to be left alone because he's doing poos. I've even thought I'd lost him once, turned out he was hiding in his closet because one of my friends daughters was over and was playing in his room. I always ask him if he would like to go on the toilet instead, have tried encouraging him to do so but he gets scared and says no everytime... Is this just a phase he will eventually grow out of? If we're out he will hold on until we are home unless there is somewhere he can hide. He sometimes holds on for days to the point where he's so constipated and can't go because it hurts him so much and he becomes too scared and so tries to hold on even longer. This happened yesterday when he spent about 4 or 5 hours in his room and wouldn't let me near him, he says he's trying to do poos but will then say he doesn't want to because it will hurt him.  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: gooseychew
Date Posted: 08 January 2012 at 4:30pm
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I had a problem with my 2 year old being constipated and the doctor gave me lactulose to give her daily. She has said i need to dose her for a REALLY long time. As in a year maybe? Apparently once they've had a problem it can cause them to hold it in future and that just causes even more problems. Scary stuff. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: MamaT
Date Posted: 08 January 2012 at 4:46pm
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My nephew was the same, he used to hide when he was going poo's, he was TT for wee's, but flat out refused to use the toilet or potty for poo's and would hide under the table, behind the couch etc etc and not go for days at a time.
I dont have any advice, I think with them, he eventually just grew out of it. -------------  
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Posted By: Stogglebox
Date Posted: 12 January 2012 at 1:55pm
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We had the same problem with our nearly 3 year old. At the end of October I think it was, something finally clicked and she 'got' toilet training for number one's within a week or two, but for number two's it took ages - it has only really been since New Year's that she has become reliable. She went and hid in corners and in her room to do poos in her undies which was really frustrating. We kept encouraging her to use the loo but basically we just had to wait until she was ready! We figured out something that she REALLY wanted (which happened to be a macaroon) and drew a pic of that at the bottom of her sticker chart. We only started with 5 spaces per successful poo, and it took her about 2 weeks to fill up the spaces in the end, but it worked, and the next chart we made it 10 spaces and her request was an icecream... Dunno if you have tried that yet... ------------- Mother of Natsumi Sarah born on 23 January 2009 |