We’ve been potty training my son for over a year now. There have been a handful of times he said he needed to go potty, but for the most part I have to look for cues or catch him before he tries to hide to go. I’ll explain why I’m taking him potty- that everybody does it and it’s important to listen to our bodies and I think he may have a pee feeling. He yells and screams and insists he doesn’t have a pee feeling, only to have a big pee that he was clearly holding in. I’ve been reinforcing that it seems like he had a really big pee feeling in his body. As long as I’m watching for cues about every hour we are pretty good.
Things get bad when he has to poop. I think he had one bad bad poop and it scared him. He started holding it in as long as he could. I’d give him toddler lax gummies and those wouldn’t even always work he’d just hold it in. Of course, that makes the issue worse as the longer he’d go without pooping the more uncomfortable, and honestly painful, it would be. The only thing that worked to keep him from going past 4 days was suppositories:( We started to mix in a bit of miralax with his morning drink to get things moving and keep things soft. He’s been pooping more often and it’s softer and not so wide, but hes scared still of pooping on the potty. He has more pee accidents when he’s got to poop, and he tries to hide. If you catch him pooping in his pants and move him to the potty, he will not continue to poop.
I really don’t know what to do at this point. I know it’s different for every kid but all of my other mom friends were done by now and I’m exhausted of him screaming at the top of his lungs that he doesn’t have to poop when i know he does.
Any advice please im begging
TLDR: bad poop ruined my toddlers potty confidence and idk how else to help him