My wife and I are at our wits end, so I thought, what could I lose by looking for a little help from the realistically minded folks here. Please excuse my use of kiddy vocabulary. It helps to think like a dad when I right this.
So, here is the situation. My daughter is 3 yaears, 4 months or so old. Because we made the mistake of listening to our parents(Wait until she shows an interst before starting!), we got a late start on potty training. But, the daughter picked up using the toilet to go pee-pee really fast. Poop...different story. It took longer, but we finally got her to the point where she was using the toilet for pee all the time, and poop about a thrid of the time. The only time she had accidents was when she was sleeping.
Then my wife(who has difficult pregnancies) got put on bed rest the final 6 weeks of her pregnancy. We brought in a baby-sitter to help her take care of my daughter. And, we noticed a decline in her use of the toilet. Pee, she shtill does good. She has even started waking up from naps to go pee. But...
She flat out refuses to go poo on the toilet. We have tried everything. Positive reinforcement, negative, taking stuff from her, bribing her. Two weeks ago the wife even pumped her full of prune juice, and stuck her on the toilet for 7 hours, with only a break for eating. Nothing. Then, the next day at nap time, she exploded. We put her on the toilet whenever we here her fart...'I can no go poppy on potty!' The poor thing will go like three days without pooping, and then when she lays down...ick!
Sigh.
Anyone with any advise...I'm open for it. Thanks folks.