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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would work to solve the issue now.  We let this go with DS and he would need to poop at school and be miserable.  He would just sob and say he needed to go home.  It was only a four hour a day program but we’d have to go get him.  Same thing would happen at home even though we told him he could have a diaper.  It went on for nearly a year until he was 3.5 and the pediatrician and gastrointestinal specialist told us it needed to stop.

Your child is waiting to poop in the diaper because she’s alone and standing up.  We had to take away all night diapers for awhile and just gently coax him to use the little potty in his bedroom alone.  We thought maybe there was something scary about the bathroom.  We left him alone and kept things calm.  He started pooping on the little potty and earned a huge reward that we bought but didn’t open until he was pooping on the potty.

Then we could go back to night pull-ups.

This could turn into a full blown phobia, OP, and it’s unhealthy to hold poop until bed.  It can stretch out the large intestine permanently.

Find her “currency” and alleviate her fears.  But please don’t do what we did which was wait. [/quote]

+1. We were told to give DS a diaper when ever he needed to poop but he needed to poop in the bathroom. That stopped the withholding until night (which was His issue too).  We didn’t make a big deal about it. Eventually he started pooping in the toilet since he was pooping in the bathroom already whenever he needed to go, [/quote]

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