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[quote=Anonymous]My 2.5 year old (33 months) still will not poop in the potty.

It's been a long road. I'm not going to get into the whole journey.

He is fully pee trained - no accidents in weeks. But he poops in his underwear 100% of the time. This has been the status quo for weeks. He gets a M&M each times he pees in the potty (which has been VERY motivating, it’s how we got him pee trained). He knows he’ll get two M&Ms if he poops in the potty, but never has (since a bout of constipation months ago). He knows when he is pooping and announces it. If we try and rush him to the potty, he screams and cries and stops going (which is bad for him) so we stopped doing that a long time back (weeks), and just have taken all pressure off. We even tried offering an M&M for pooping on the bathroom (in his underwear) with no luck (he’s done that twice in probably 4 weeks, but he knows the offer still stands).

He’s very verbal, but cannot tell us why he doesn’t want to poop in the bathroom or on the potty.

I’m so tired of cleaning out poopy underwear 2x a day. Where on earth do we go from here? If we put him in pull-ups or diapers, he’ll regress on pee (btdt) and I hate to lose that progress.

What would you do at this point? Not interested in “you should have” type advice, only where to go from here.

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