What are your favorite hospitals to work at in Seattle area? Pros and cons. We graduate soon and I’m looking for some advice from people who have actually worked at these places, not my short clinical stay.
My son is almost 5 and still in diapers. For backstory: he is a cancer survivor and had stage 3 Rhabdomyosarcoma at 18 months old and had a bowel block from adhesions that ended up getting removed around 3. We’ve been trying to potty train him for 2 years but the problem is, he is constantly trying to poop and straining.
He goes poop in the toilet about 3/10 of the time and pees every time in the toilet. He poops his pants quite a bit because he sits on the toilet for quite a bit, gets some out, but the rest comes out after he gets off the toilet because he’s finally relaxing.
It’s very frustrating as a parent because we’ve done rewards, no diaper no undies, just undies, he does it often enough so he knows how to but not every time, he throws huge fits because he knows that if he does sit on the potty it’ll be awhile and he just can’t sit on the toilet for long periods before something actually comes (he has always taken awhile to use the bathroom even when he was in diapers completes). We’ve talked to his pediatrician who isn’t extremely helpful… She just kind of says we need to figure it out and gives us pointers on things we’ve already done. We can’t use stool softener because of his bowel problems.
Anyone have some pointers? I have another child who was potty trained very quickly but obviously doesn’t have the same circumstances.