Toilet training (2)

To lessen the effect of Lara holding poos in and getting stomach aches, a GP friend recommended "Parachoc" and told us the story of him mixing it for his son in the morning, licked the spoon and wanted to go to the toilet on the way to work. However, Parachoc didn't seem to have the same effect on Lara (we think Lara's problem is more psychological), "Yakult" and prune juice worked better. To avoid constipation, we changed tactics and repeatedly told Lara to ask for a nappy when she wanted to poo. She has been doing this since March. I think deep down Lara feels embarrassed, because she never asked for a nappy in daycare. Also she sometimes asked indirectly for a nappy, for example asking to go to bed during the day because we put a nappy on her when she goes to bed.

A few weeks ago, Lara did a poo by accident in daycare and was very excited about it. We felt the time might be right to try toilet training again. To encourage Lara, Grandma bought a new bike and told her she could have the bike if she does poos in the toilet. So far this has not worked. Lara would rather give the bike away to another girl than doing poos in the toilet. I don't really want to push her and make her hold poos in again. For the moment, the bike sits high in our lounge.

Will it ever get used I wonder...?