Hayden is 2 years and 3.5 months old. We started potty training right around his 2nd birthday. Now this may seem a little late to you seasoned mommies but we had good reasons.
Hayden was only 21 months when the twins were born. At his 18 month check-up our pediatrician, who also has twins, told us to hold off on potty-training and any other major adjustments until after I delivered. The logic behind this is that he would most likely regress once the twins were born in order to reclaim lost attention. So we waited.
At first, he was very excited about his new potty but only went once or twice and then totally lost interest. I've been pushing the potty a lot more lately and so far, it's only at an "ok" status. If he is over-tired or more interested in playing, he screams when we put him on. If he is in a good mood and being my sweet boy, he will go pee-pee with no fuss. These trips to the potty are celebrate with lots of clapping and loud "YAY!"s and telling him how good, big, wonderful, smart, etc. he is.
Then there is poop. He always tells me after he has pooped. 99% of the time he finds a quiet spot all alone in order to handle his business and then he promptly tells me of his dirty deed and requests to be changed. Friday morning, I put him in the bath tub and let him play for a few minutes while I tended to Cooper and Lucas. I went back to check on him and he says, "Mommy, poop." I asked if he needed to go, and he said yes. I told him to get out of the tub, and he said no. I asked where his poop was, he told me butty (in Hayden language, this means he hadn't gone yet... you get the drift). So I casually swish the bubbles around only to find a nice pile of poo. He sees it and freaks out! The kid is terrified of poop and always says "Yuck" and "Shew!" when I change him.
We had a long talk about not pooping in the bathtub and only pooping in the potty (something he has yet to do even once). Fast-forward to Monday. Again, morning bath. Suddenly I hear him scream for me. I go in to see what the fuss is about and he points at the water and says, "POOP!" There is no poop in the tub. He has to go, so he thinks the water is dirty. I put him on the potty and he tells me "No. Dipey." He refuses to poo on the potty and actually requests that get him a diaper. This defeats the whole purpose of potty-training.
What the hell am I going to do?
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