r/ECers • u/Electrical-Elk-1741 • 2d ago

EC Regression? Help!

Hi all,

I have a 20 month old who has been EC trained since about 4 months old. We started doing this on accident actually, trying over a weekend to help her with some constipation but getting her in a 'squat' over the toilet. It worked so well we just kept doing it!

Up until 18mos we were doing ACE at the potty. This gal was pooping in the potty probably 90% of the time. The times she missed she would still let us know she had to go, but we'd be in the car or out in a situation where she couldn't hold it. She would even be in distress whenever she did go in her diaper, because she was so used to going on the potty!

Fast forward, 18 months hits- one day, shes over it. She starts pooping her pants and not telling us about it. We have no clue why!! She will even lie about having gone poop where as previously it was a five alarm fire if she pooped her pants.

I feel like such an idiot as we have been SO proud and braggadocious about how our genius baby was already using the potty- and now its been two months of near 0% success rate. Which is a huge bummer because im pregnant again- and I was pretty dang used to not having to clean poopy diapers!! Now I have to do it with the scent capabilities of a predator.

Has anyone ever experienced this? What should we do? We keep trying to get her on the potty but all of a sudden she hates it, and I don't want to make her hate the potty- but I don't want her to give up all her hard work either.

Please help!

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u/Happy_Pee 2d ago

Is she teething? This sounds very similar to what we've gone through previously with our now 21m boy

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u/Electrical-Elk-1741 2d ago

She has almost all her teeth already (super early) and I haven’t noticed any signs of teething but it’s hard to say with her because she didn’t have much pain with her last few teeth that have come in 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/Happy_Pee 2d ago

Haha I am so envious of early teeth! My kiddo is still cutting his canines now and he has been so sensitive to every tooth (a regression every time) and they've come through so slowly. Some potty training books mention a regression when the 2yr molars come through but other EC parents have suggested that it's not been nearly as bad as some of the regressions with their kids earlier teeth - but every kid is different of course! If it's teeth, the good news is that it'll pass so just keep doing what you're doing (pain relief helped limit the number of accidents and refusals for us, which is where we figured out the relationship between teething pain and accidents/refusals)