Hi, hope you can all advise.
My dd has just turned 3 and I've been trying to potty train her for the last month/6 weeks or so. All went well to start with and with bribery (playing with balloons / chocolate), she would sit and eventually wee on the potty. From the start she would never even consider the idea of doing a poo on the potty, but I just thought 'one step at a time' and let her have a nappy.
Then, we went away for a week to stay with family. I couldn't take her potty with us, and throughout the time away she wouldn't sit on the potty they had there. So, I was quite relaxed about it and let her have a nappy when she needed to go. Throughout this whole time, she hasn't wet/pooed in her pants, so is essentially continent.
However, since we've been back (a few weeks now), she won't do anything in the potty at all. I have tried every bribery trick I can think of, but she won't play ball. She just screams for a nappy and will take her pants off, get a nappy and put it underneath her for me to put on.
So, my question is (after this rather long essay), do I:
- continue as we are, and hope she'll ask for the potty/toilet (we have a Peppa Pig toilet seat she chose) in her own time
- go cold turkey on the nappies, but knowing how she is, I worry it'll put her off from wearing pants at all (which at the moment she is quite happy at wearing)
Any other tips/reassurance/guide as to why she's doing this?!
Thanks!