Potty Trained!

Ok this has been like a year and a half in the making. Bailey was so stubborn when it came to pooping in the toilet. I tried bribing and everything, nothing seemed to work, so when we had Hattie I just couldn't do it anymore and we put her back in diapers. A few months ago I found a strategy in a book that worked!

The Poopy Place!

I printed off a sheet with "Poopy Place" written on it. So the goal was for her to just poop in the bathroom in her diaper. Give her candy and viola! she did it! Afterall it's not that different than what she was doing. Needless to say it was in the bathroom behind the door so she could "hide" from me.

After she got this down, I put her in panties and she had to tell me when she needed to go poop so I could put her in a diaper. This was easy for us because I spent 11 months last year pee-training her. It was just the pooping she couldn't do.

So after about a week of doing that we moved it closer to the toilet - not much different but the heat went up a little.

Then she had to be standing on her stool next to the toilet that she used to get on it. She was fine with that.

Then she needed to poop sitting on the toilet fully clothed. Well I found out the problem! She didn't know how to poop sitting down. OK she just didn't want to. But after she did it once and realized that the poop wouldn't stick to her bum, she was all for it. So the next time she said she needed to go poop, I just put her straight on the toilet. She started to go and realized - Oh I need a diaper! I said, "No you don't you can't hear the splash if it goes in the diaper!" And that was that. She has been potty trained ever since.

For her, I didn't need to show her every time that the poop goes into the toilet. She knew that. I didn't need to watch Elmo's potty time a million times for her to get it. She just needed to know that the poop wouldn't stick on her butt after she did sitting down. Afterall, who wants to sit in their own poop?

And now, I get to treat myself to putting her in preschool! 5 hours a week break and my reward!
Eating ice cream after pooping for the first time in the toilet!