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It Hurts When I Poop! a Story for Children Who Are Scared to Use the Potty
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6 Reddit comments about It Hurts When I Poop! a Story for Children Who Are Scared to Use the Potty:

u/baldylox · 6 pointsr/CrazyIdeas
u/robhall · 4 pointsr/daddit

Have you seen this book: It Hurst When I Poop!
I bought a bunch of books for my son when we were having trouble with potty training and this one seems perfect for your situation.

u/lepetitpigeon · 2 pointsr/Mommit

Preschool teacher here. I have had a few parents swear by this book. Haven't read it myself, but know for a fact it's helped a few of my students.

u/Cbrantford · 2 pointsr/Parenting

I would go back to the doctor and talk about it. My kid started doing this but it was admittedly a much easier situation and it didn't last long. One of the things that really turned it around for us (other than daily Miralax for a spell) was the hilariously titled book It hurts when I poop. I know, it's a strange thing to have on your shelf, but it's about a little 5 year old boy and it talks about him overcoming his fears of pooping on the potty. Read some of the reviews and decide if it's something that may help. Good luck. I know how stressful this can be.

u/likesalovelycupoftea · 2 pointsr/Parenting

I never realised how awful constipation was in a toddler until our daughter suffered from it, shes had on/off problems with it since she moved onto solids at six months, she's three and a half now. Its been well under control (in that she goes nearly every day) for over a year now but we still keep an eye on it. I remember when she was younger every poo was a victory (I think her record was two weeks) and everytime she had one it was like resetting the clock and we would begin the process again of trying to get her to go again.

Our daughter has always been good with eating fruit and veg, and always had plenty of water. She'll happily eat a punnet of strawberries or a whole avacado in a sitting, I never felt that her diet was a problem - although I feel it did help cutting a few stodgy foods out, she generally has wholemeal pasta/bread but we're not obsessive over it or anything.

We'd been to various GP's (we are in the UK) who would prescribe a short course of meds, either lactulose or movicol. These would sort things out temporarily but afterwards it felt like we were back to where we started.

It was very frustrating, we would go through good and bad patches, things were pretty good until we started potty training at two, then she just stopped going again. You probably know that constipation can be physiological (a medical cause) or functional (dietary or often psychological). How I understand it that often there is an initial cause for the constipation, perhaps something dietary that causes it, this causes the poo to be painful, so then the child witholds their bowl movement from fear of another painful bowl movement, this of course sets you up in a vicious cycle that often gets worse and worse.

What worked for us was a new GP, he said that current guidelines said that childhood constipation should be managed longer term (I think it was for as long as the child had had constipation - so in our case a long time) and he suggested putting our daughter on a long term course of movicol (which I believe has Macrogol 3350 as the active ingredient) He said she could have up to three of the sachets a day, but less if she was going reguarly and there were no problems. We had a series of follow up appointments, we just had one last month where we decided to leave the perscription open so we could use it as and when - currently she's probably on a sachet every other day.

we also had a few books that helped a bit [this one] (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Constipation-Withholding-Your-Child-Soiling/dp/1843104911/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1412067509&sr=8-1&keywords=children+constipation) and [this one] (http://www.amazon.co.uk/It-Hurts-When-Poop-Children/dp/1433801310/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1412066940&sr=8-3&keywords=children+constipation). Take from them what you will, there are good bits in them - I decided not to tell my daughter that the poo would be angry if it didn't come out as it wanted to play! A bit too Mr Hanky for me!

There different types of laxative, I believe movicol is an osmotic laxative so it bulks up the stool with water so its easier to poo, and as I understand it it never crosses out of the intestines and stays in the gut binding to water, its not the stimulant type of laxative that stimulate the gut itself that is not recommended to be on long term.

Once our daughters stools were soft from the medication it all fell into place as it were, we kept up with her good diet of course. We also found that reminding her to do a poo worked well, we would often let her sit on her potty in front of a TV programme she liked. When she does a poo she gets a sticker for her reward chart, lots of praise and a high five. I also say things like "doesn't your tummy feel good now that you've done a poo".

I hope that things get easier, I would suggest if you're not having much luck with one sachet talking to your doctor about increasing the dosage for a while. Good luck, I wish many poos upon you - in the best way that someone can say that!

Phew, that turned into rather more of an essay than I intended.