https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:35:54 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-lo-poop-trained-before-they-were-pee-trained#post-2816715 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 20:28:38 +0000 GoGoSnoGirl 2816715@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO started wanting to sit on the potty @ 18mo, but we are still working on potty training as we near 3yo. She has been poop trained for quite a long time with only 2 accidents where she was too busy playing at her grandparents house to ask us to get her to the toilet to poop. Pee training however, has been hard for her. I don't think she recognized the feeling of needing to go like with pooping, &amp; she also has been in pull ups all this time, for the most part. I haven't pushed harder, but probably should. She likes to wear underwear, so that helps her remember to get to the potty to pee more of the time, so we are making progress. I've also felt that she'll get there, so I haven't wanted to push too much, just support her by prompting &amp; getting her there when she asks to go. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-lo-poop-trained-before-they-were-pee-trained#post-2816647 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:03:33 +0000 snowjewelz 2816647@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsbubbletea: She is a pretty stubborn one and seems to regress (or just refuse) even with the gentlest prodding so that's why we've been waiting all this time! I was just surprised she stared with poop before pee! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-lo-poop-trained-before-they-were-pee-trained#post-2816639 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:50:26 +0000 mrsbubbletea 2816639@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@snowjewelz: if anything it will help her get a little more in tune with her body! I kinda feel like you know her best, and maybe it’s better to wait until she is ready unless you want to battle her every 15 min to sit on the toilet and change her clothes all the time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-lo-poop-trained-before-they-were-pee-trained#post-2816637 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:48:04 +0000 snowjewelz 2816637@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsbubbletea: Planning to do that during the summer when we're outside playing! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-lo-poop-trained-before-they-were-pee-trained#post-2816634 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:45:05 +0000 mrsbubbletea 2816634@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@snowjewelz: what about pants free? Maybe she wouldn’t like the feeling of it trickling down her leg? You could even bring the little potty right to where she’s playing and sit down with her, and point her toward the potty if you see her start to go? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-lo-poop-trained-before-they-were-pee-trained#post-2816607 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:16:29 +0000 Iced Tea 2816607@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep.<br /> My LO was unusual in that she reliably pooped on the potty first, before reliably peeing there. She would sign potty and I would take her since before a year old (crazy, right?). We did EC part time, so she had the awareness.<br /> Then at about 2 years 2 months she decided she didn’t want to use the potty, at all. It lasted maybe four months.<br /> After a couple months of watching other kids at preschool, she decided peeing in the potty was cool, but not pooping. And then suddenly two months later, she started going to the potty to poop completely by herself (just before turning 3). It seems that she needed the confidence to know she could do it by herself. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-lo-poop-trained-before-they-were-pee-trained#post-2816564 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 11:29:32 +0000 snowjewelz 2816564@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@gingerbebe: The thing is it happened a lot of times and she never told us so she WAS in them for a while (ranging a few min to who knows how long) and she still didn't say anything! And usually it's not even like she's so focused on doing something that she could have forgotten! She is a stubborn one haha! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-lo-poop-trained-before-they-were-pee-trained#post-2816563 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 11:27:40 +0000 gingerbebe 2816563@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@snowjewelz: Can you just leave her in her soaked pants? I know that's weird, since our instinct is always to clean them up right away, but if you leave her for a bit, it might make her uncomfortable enough where she might want to try the potty. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-lo-poop-trained-before-they-were-pee-trained#post-2816560 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 11:19:29 +0000 snowjewelz 2816560@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@gingerbebe: She doesn't seem to care that she soaks her pants... But hopefully that will change! She goes on kiddie potty downstairs and big potty upstairs for poop with no problem and we go to the potty all the time.... But she initiated poop on her own so I think I just gotta wait till she's ready for pee too... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-lo-poop-trained-before-they-were-pee-trained#post-2816559 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 11:08:47 +0000 gingerbebe 2816559@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@snowjewelz: Mine poop trained first - around 3 years old. I think he just found it really gross to have a poopy diaper, but with pee he felt like he could hold it and keep playing....except he couldn't, so he'd have accidents. He pee trained about 3 weeks after poop training. We just put him right in shorts and underwear as soon as he got home from daycare at night and on the weekends, but kept him in a diaper for the school day. So basically he had accidents a lot those 3 weeks and we just kept reminding him to use the potty and tell him that we don't pee on Paw Patrol. We also invited him to go to the potty with us whenever we had to pee, especially Daddy, and made it a point to announce we were going to the potty before we left home or went outside so he would think it was normal.</p> <p>Once he was regularly using the potty to pee at home, we pulled the diapers at school. He had accidents 1-2x a day at daycare for about 2 weeks, and then he got it. We've had maybe 1-2 accidents a month since October. He still wears pull-ups for nap at home (but not at school) and overnight sleep.</p> <p>One thing that really helped our son is the ability to use the real toilet and not the potty. For some reason, he hated the kiddie potty and still prefers to use a real potty over anything smaller (he has a small potty in his room for overnight). So we got him some cheap Ikea step stools and put a potty ring on a hook in every bathroom and he was able to run in and handle his business with great success.</p> <p>Another thing I've heard moms tell me works is to put on underwear and THEN put on a pull-up because this helps the child feel the wetness of their accident while just a pull-up makes them feel dry. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-lo-poop-trained-before-they-were-pee-trained#post-2816540 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 10:02:40 +0000 snowjewelz 2816540@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ugh yours are still so much younger than mine! </p> <p>The only reasoning I can come up with is that she has more time between needing to poop and actually sitting down to poop, while with pee there's usually less time to react so maybe she's just lazy or doesn't want to hold it... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-lo-poop-trained-before-they-were-pee-trained#post-2816536 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:52:54 +0000 pachamama 2816536@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son never, ever has poop accidents (he had one and made a big spectacle of gagging. He clearly was horrified) but definitely has pee accidents. Lots at daycare. It's so odd! He is 27 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-lo-poop-trained-before-they-were-pee-trained#post-2816533 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:37:42 +0000 Silva 2816533@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My daughter started pooping on the potty at around 16 months. She was super regular and so we just put her on it after breakfast and hung out reading books until she pooped. Once she got the hang of it she was entirely poop trained, pee training took a little longer, probably happened around 2. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-lo-poop-trained-before-they-were-pee-trained#post-2816524 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:13:56 +0000 babycanuck 2816524@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes - My LO indicated he was wanting to go poop on his own just after he turned 2 and it took us about 2 months to get him to pee on the toilet.</p> <p>One thing we had started to do way before thinking about potty training was putting him on while the bath was running, to pull a Pavlov and his body to pee while the bath was running. Eventually we would put him on without the bath running and he would go, then he started to understand to tell us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-lo-poop-trained-before-they-were-pee-trained#post-2816521 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:10:29 +0000 snowjewelz 2816521@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So my almost 3.5 year old is still not potty trained but we have never done any "method" and we're in the camp that she'll do it when she's ready. But the strangest thing is she often is able to poop on the potty, but outright refuse to pee. And I know it's more common for kids to have trouble poop training. </p> <p>And if anyone did this, how long between they are able to pee on the potty too? </p>