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Any loo but the nursery loo!!

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JennyTW · 21/06/2010 23:57

HELP, please! Our DD (3ys, 3mths) has spent the last three weeks without nappies during the day -- mostly without accidents. She'll happily go on any toilet, anywhere, with me.

But she totally boycotts the nursery toilets .. the ones specifically designed for people her size. Says they're 'scary' and opts instead for a visit to the staff toilet with me when I drop her off. She then holds on (goodness knows how!) for up to five hours until we pick her up.

Any tips on how we can convince her that it's a good idea to go for a wee-wee a little more often, IN the nursery loos? And perhaps at her granny's, too, where she also steadfastly shuns the bathroom?

Oh, and she's very open-minded otherwise: LOVES peeing al fresco (grass, sand etc), and on a selection of potties.

We'd appreciate any advice, before her little bladder expands to the size of a calabash ..

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citybranch · 22/06/2010 00:05

my DS was exactly the same!
He was holding on to it for hours, and would often wet himself at the last minute before he was collected.

He got over it on his own eventually, one day he just marched off to the loo and used it, he never had a problem after that.

Don't worry too much. I really stressed out about it but it was no big deal really when I look back.

Missus84 · 22/06/2010 00:11

Is there anything particular about the nursery loos that are scary? Does she have to go on her own to the nursery loo - would she be happier if a member of staff went with her maybe?

JennyTW · 22/06/2010 14:08

Thanks, citybranch -- v reassuring! I have a feeling that'll happen some day .. I just feel so sorry for her in the meantime!

And no, Missus84, she was accompanied by staff members the first couple of times, when she hadn't yet worked out that she didn't like the loos. It's just that she stopped going one day.

Interesting that she won't go with her granny, either .. I'm thinking she associates loos with me because we've gone together for months now, and that I'll need to get her daddy to take her more often ..

Thank you for your thoughts, though! Will keep my fingers crossed (and she her legs!)

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