what do you think? stop or carry on?

[tasmaniandevilchaser]

Hi, I know there's loads of posts like this, but if anyone can read my (hopefully) brief summary and say what they think, I'd be v v grateful!

DD is 2;2 and we started potty training 6 days ago. As long as I ask her about every 30 mins if she wants to go, then we are mostly accident free. I'm talking maybe one wee accident a day. Though today I was clearing up poo off the floor, she obviously doesn't know when she wants to do a poo. But she totally gets that she needs to do wees and poos in the potty.

Today was the 1st completely nappy free day (the last few days my Mum has been taking her out and putting a nappy on her when she's out).

She did ask to go on the potty today, this is only the 2nd time in those 6 days. Am I being completely unrealistic that she will ask to go at this stage? Does this mean she's not ready and I should stop?

On reflection, I think we started a bit early. Naively I didn't realise how much energy I'd need to put into it, but I'm not sure if it's just me that wants to stop or if she's just not ready. She loves her Peppa Pig knickers though, she doesn't want her nappy back on!!!

What do you think?

[fifi25]

My 2nd and 3rd dd's were out of nappies just before they turned 2. I am surprised you have had no accidents. I had loads. I done my yougnest last summer when she was running about in skirts. Dont go back now as she will get confused. I left my eldest daughter in nappies till pre-school and she was the hardest to potty train

[Beamur]

I had a go at potty training with DD at about 2.5, she got terribly distressed by it and kept talking incessantly about the 'accidents' so we put her back in nappies and introduced potties more gradually, a few months later we had a breakthrough with her and she has been dry with few accidents since. Toilet training for poos took a few more months though and she generally 'stored them up' until the night nappy then pooed.
If she doesn't want her nappy back on and is happy, then I'd be inclined to stick with it, some people think its a bad idea to switch between no nappy/nappy during the day, but I'm of the opinion you do what works for you.
It may take her a few months more before she understands the feeling of needing to poo, if my DD is anything to go by.

[tasmaniandevilchaser]

thanks! We have had some accidents, but about 1 a day. I think we've had so few because I put her on the potty very very regularly. But I was thinking that could be counterproductive as she's not being responsible for it for herself. But I think she's very young to do that (though some of her friends who are the same age are doing it).

She doesn't seem too bothered by the accidents, I try my hardest to be nonchalant about them. She did squawk a bit when she did a poo on the floor tho! Somehow I find that less of a bother than a wee on the floor.

I'm going for no nappy all day now and will try and persuade my Mum to as well. (no nappy for dd that is!)

[Tortoiseonthehalfshell]

We trained at exactly the same age, and had the same experience. Wees came first - the breakthrough was when she learned how to wee on command, really - then poos about, ooh, two weeks later? She's 2 and 5 months now and we still prompt most of the time, but can leave the time between longer and longer - hourly or so, I try for, but sometimes it's 2 hours with no issues, just depends on time of day, liquid drunk, etc. If I don't prompt often enough, she is JUST starting to come to me and say she needs the toilet, which is great. I would say we have a poo accident every week or two, probably a wee accident about the same frequency. She naps nappy-free but sleeps with a nappy on.

So I think you're doing fine and this is a really normal trajectory. If you're a week in, then prompting really frequently is the perfect thing to do and it really does change fast. You definitely shouldn't stop now if you're making such great progress - it's a two steps forward one step back thing, as so many child-raising things are.

[tasmaniandevilchaser]

thanks tortoise, that's really helpful. We just went an hour w/o a wee, or prompting for a wee, that's progress!

[tasmaniandevilchaser]

progress already today, if anyone is going through the same thing and wondered what happened! She asked to go, said she needed a wee and a poo and promptly did both in the potty!