Right now my spirited son is refusing to use the potty. He trained himself a year ago. I was watching for this when the baby was born, we had other rockiness, but not potty. Now the baby is close to crawling, spirited son refuses to wear a diaper, but will hold and even refuse to let it out when he is on the potty, screams in pain but won't release. When at home we can tell him that his choice is potty or a diaper and that if he wets the floor he'll have to help clean it up, which is what usually gets to him eventually. But when we are out, or in the middle of the night? At night he will scream for an hour or more. We are exhausted and my head is pounding. His issue (the direct one) is that he doesn't like his bottom telling him what to do. After last night's marathon he was adorable and cuddly and agreed to wear a diaper at night. But I know it won't reduce the battles, just the, ahem, "fall-out".
The Nightmare of Encopresis or Extreme Constipation in a Young Child
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