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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let him put on a diaper to poop. If he knows it is coming and announces it, let him put on a diaper to do it.

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Keep the diapers in the bathroom and he must put it on in the bathroom (while standing, you can help and you will get used to doing it this way). He must finish his business while in the bathroom, then you remove the diaper and drop the poop from the diaper into the potty. You help him wipe in the bathroom with toilet paper and put the paper in the potty. You let him flush the potty. He washes his hands afterwards with you as he would if he pooped in the potty.

Use diapers, not pull ups. Make it kind of annoying to have to go put on the diaper and take it off (diapers are also easier to shake the poop off into the toilet, fyi).

My kid did this for about three weeks and then pooped in the potty. We thought the issue was fear of the big potty but in the end she skipped right over the training potty to use the big one. I think partly it was just a fear of releasing into a toilet (kids get used to going in their diaper, it feels secure) and partly it was learning what position to sit in on the big potty. For the latter, we had to use one of those more elaborate potty inserts with the step stool and the handles on the side (not just a little simple potty insert) before she got comfortable with pooping. But the main thing was moving all pooping activity to the bathroom while still allowing her to poop in a diaper for a little while. We didn't let her wear it around the house or out of the house, just in the bathroom while pooping. I would even bring a diaper with us to restaurants and things and we'd go in a stall, put on the diaper, she'd go, and then we'd clean up as usual. Again, this was a short-lived phase that was intended to just normalize the idea of pooping and potties as things that wen together. Eventually she got tired of the diaper ritual and just used the potty.[/quote]

OP here. Thank you. I would be totally fine with this and feel it would be a huge step in the right direction. I’m not sure if we’ll be able to implement though. I think if he says “I’m pooping” and we try to move him to the bathroom, he scream and cry and withhold. I might be able to get him into a diaper if (at least at first) I put it on him in the living room. That might be a place to start. [/quote]

I let my toddler poop in a diaper for several months (I messed up with potty training timing — too soon after she got a sibling and went through some other big changes).  What I did was put her in diapers for naps and about an hour before bed, letting her poop where ever for a while (this wasn’t actually intentional, she just snuck the poop in whenever I was dealing with the baby lol).  This let us both regain some equilibrium and after a while I started asking if she needed to poop when I thought she did and verbalizing “seems like you’re pooping now” type things when she was and talking about how poop was supposed to go in the potty.  Then one week I read a post on DCUM about doing all the pooping/diaper change/etc in the bathroom and thought what the heck let’s try that.  I had to bribe her to poop in the bathroom the first day (a raisin seemed a small tax to pay) but after that she took herself to the bathroom to do her pooping (in diaper) without fuss for the rest of the week.  So I decided to up the stakes and offered her a marshmallow for pooping on the potty.  It only took two nights of that before she tried to withhold a little bit so she could poop on the potty multiple times a night (and get multiple marshmallows surely!) so she got switched to one marshmallow per night for any successful number of poops.  The we ran out of marshmallows (intentionally) over the weekend and my child was fully potty trained.  Anyway, this is just to let you know that the process can be somewhat involved and still successful, OP.  I hate cleaning up poop and I hope you move past this stage soon![/quote]

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