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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]staedr to train my almost 3.5 year old at 2 and 4 months (baby sister arrived at 24 months so we waited a bit). 13 months later we are still in training b/c DS refuses to poop.. I have tried pretty much everything including taking a full week off work to train. At first, DS had a hard time recognizing the feeling of needing to poop, but then DS also  a very strong phobia against pooping in the potty and all the training put huge pressure on him. he would hold in stools until he got badly constipated and it was a vicious circle. Pediatrician's advice was to drop it for a while, we did, and recently started again. I was overjoyed when he finally pooped in the bathroom at starbucks the other day, and hope we are headed in the right direction, but man, it's been a long, hard road and we're still on it.

in all other ways, DS is fine--very adventurous, physically adept, good eater, traveler, etc. this was just tough. and we are not lazy parents. between full time work and child care, we have no time to be lazy. we are not perfect, but the idea that we had control over our son's potty training was just false, as we learned.   like so many other things about parenting....our two kids could not be more different, temperament wise, and it has very little to do with our parenting. [/quote]

This is like us too- I have a 3 year, 2 month old son who refuses to poop in the potty.  He's been pee-trained since 2.5, but for some reason, will simply not poop in the potty. He also would hold it in and become constipated, and trying to drag him to sit on the toilet turns into a huge power struggle with a ton of hysterical screaming and crying. The only way to make him sit is to forcibly hold him down, and I can't believe anyone would advocate doing that.

I also have a 5 year old who poop and pee trained at 2.5 so it's not like I am completely uninitiated in the potty training world.  If you someone thinks this makes my 3 year old "special needs," then so be it.[/quote]

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