Potty Training Regression

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Even though I started Gavin on elimination communication (EC) from about six months, we never really achieved complete EC.  It was more like a hit and miss attempt to get Gavin to poop or pee into the toilet (since he wouldn’t use his potty).  I found it easier to read Gavin’s poop signs and hence he was sort of “poop trained” quite early – although we continued to have a few accidents along the way.

Ever since I discovered that Gavin wanted to be just like Daddy – reading his car magazines on the “throne” – we appeared to have struck a winning routine for consistently getting Gavin to use the toilet when he needed to poop.  Prior to this, I would have to read his poop signs to determine when he was ready to poop and quickly rush him to the toilet before he made a mess in his diaper.

The first time Gavin consciously “told” me he needed to use the toilet was when he woke up one more, climbed out of bed and ran to the toilet door.  Since the door was closed, he kept banging on it, demanding to be let in.  Mummy – with a sleep-addled brain – took quite a while to figure out that he wanted to use the toilet, but once I realised, it became a lot easier to help him out whenever he needed to use the toilet.

I found the car magazines useful for occupying Gavin’s attention while we waited for nature to take its course.  Prior to this, if he wasn’t quite ready to poop, he would insist on getting off the toilet only to poop into his diaper five minutes later.

Just as I was patting myself on the back for a job well-done, Gavin decides, quite out of the blue, that he doesn’t want to use the toilet any more.  In fact, he doesn’t even want to tell me that he needs to poop.  Having gotten so used to the fact that Gavin would tell me he wanted to poop, I had let go of all my poop-reading instincts that would normally have set alarm bells ringing.  Instead, all I did was ask Gavin if he needed to poop and when he told me “no”, I just took his word for it and end up having to clean up a messy bottom some five to ten minutes later.

The funny thing is that Gavin now refuses to let me sit him on the toilet and he pretends he doesn’t need to poop even when he does.  I find myself confounded by the turn of events and unable to figure out why he won’t use the toilet any more, especially after having established such a regular pattern of toilet use.  So what gives?  I confess I’m not enjoying the poopy diapers and messy bottom after discovering the joys of having a toddler that can poop into the toilet bowl.

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