3 year old potty training regression ?

[ladyrahrah]

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My girl has been out of nappies for around 2 months now. ( she's almost 3 years old ).

We've had a busy Christmas - traveling abroad, staying with relatives, then back home, relatives staying with us, her first over night without us etc..

She was doing very well, no accidents really. But since things have settled down and we are just back at home, she keeps having accidents with number two again.

Any advice ?

Is she constipated?
Go back to basics, 20 mins after every meal to try and see if it’s time for a poo. Try poo goes to pooland app.

Stick her on the potty regularly, do not ask if she needs to go- learn when she usually has her poo ie. Morning, after milk, evening?

No she's not constipated. Yeah so she always has a poo in the evening..

Just now she did actually say she needed to go and I told her to just go to the toilet. I didn't go with her. She went very quickly and then came out again pulling her trousers up. I checked and she hadn't gone.

So I encouraged her / asked her if she wanted to go and she said no, no , no.. about ten minutes later I saw her crouch down and do it in her pants..

It's also funny if I ever ask her if she needs to go she says NO. She will ONLY go when she wants to go. There's no ' taking her quickly before we go out '.

She insists on being the one to decide when she needs to go. Even if she's touching her crotch etc, she'll still only go, once she's decided. Sometimes it's clear for ages she needs to go, but there's no point in telling her or taking her there, as she just refuses. Until she decided she wants to go..

When I potty trained I sat my child on the potty infront of the tv or with an ipad. Didn’t matter how long it took, once done I got them up. Maybe revert to this. If you know roughly when she goes sit her on the potty with an activity or distraction and just say no pressure let mummy know when done

Yeah I was doing this before, she loved it. However we kind of moved past this stage and she would just tell me when she actually needed to go. Then she would sometimes take the iPad anyway.

I'm also asking myself what has caused this to start happening again..

This has coincided with her little brother starting to pull himself up on stuff and therefore requiring constant supervision, much more than before. He's everywhere and fast and I have to follow him everywhere now, as he's pulling himself up, but falling down and hurting himself etc. he's also constantly trying to climb up my legs etc/ pull himself up onto me when I'm sitting on the floor etc.

DD yesterday pushed him down from me and said ' it's my mummy, go away ' ( she's not done anything like that before ).

Also with the toilet thing, she often says she wants to go I think, because she knows I go with her and sit with her in there and give her that one on one attention.

I think these could be reasons for a regression, right ??