Just finished day 5 and can’t work out if it’s worth continuing or whether I should give up. Have got a baby due in 9 weeks’ time.
Day 1 we did the whole sitting on the potty every 15 mins thing. Went well - we caught 3 wees in the potty in the AM but had 3 wee accidents in the afternoon. We had stickers and sweeties for when she got her wee in the potty and she completely understood what she had to do, was thrilled when she managed it and got upset when she had an accident (we were v reassuring / didn’t make a big deal of it but she hated being wet from the first accident)
Day 2 similar thing altho we increased the time between sitting on the potty. Hit and miss, clearly she didn’t know in advance a wee was coming, but happy to sit there and try which meant sometimes it went on by chance.
Day 3 I stopped putting her on it all the time and just explained if she needed to do a wee she should do it on the potty. We had one good moment: she asked to go when she had started to poo and we just about made it, she was over the moon bless her, otherwise all the wees (6) were accidents. Again she got upset and said things like ‘I missed the toilet train’ ‘oh no’ or even ‘sorry mummy’ (heart break!). Again I just said ‘no big deal’ and cleaned it up without a fuss and gave her a hug
Day 4 she had an accident first thing then big breakthrough: asked to go when she needed a wee. She then did a big wee in the potty - hooray - but then 3 wee accidents and a poo accident in the PM, often when standing right by the potty and not aware what was happening until it was too late.
Day 5 - similar. She had an accident first thing, then second wee she asked to go and made it in time, but then 3 wee accidents and 1 poo accident in the PM. She is still sad and disappointed if she doesn’t make it but less so; she is starting to get annoyed with me asking her if she needs to go (always a ‘no’ even if 5 mins before an accident). If I get her to sit on the potty nothing happens. In fact there have been a number of occasions where she has gone a couple of hours with nothing, so she has sat on the potty at my suggestion for say 10 minutes, nothing happens, and then a few minutes later once off the potty she has an accident.
There are no patterns to her wees and poos at all - it’s completely random, altho the gaps between wees have got much longer throughout the 5 days. I reeeally don’t want to give up as I just don’t think I’ll have to energy to do all this again with a new baby, and she so clearly understands everything and wants to take part. However it seems that after 5 days she still has zero idea that a wee or poo is coming, (with 3 exceptions which is what is making it so confusing) and I can’t help wondering if she’s just too young / not quite physiologically ready??
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2.5yr old, day 5, should I quit??
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CFeatherstone · 20/03/2019 20:59
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