Have posted this in potty training but thought I might get more responses here from people who've trained (a) child(ren) before.......
Started training DS (just 3) on Saturday. At first he totally refused to sit on the pot or toilet at all. On Sunday got him to agree to sit on the pot but didn't manage to coincide with any wee or poo, so had a couple of accidents. Monday he went to nursery and they managed to get him to sit (very reluctantly) and finally got a wee in the toilet. That afternoon I had him sitting on the pot a lot and got 2 teeny wees in it as well as about 3 teeny accidents.
Then yesterday he flooded himself at nursery at play time (he goes 9-1.30 everyday). Came home and said pee pee but before I could get him to the pot/loo he flooded the floor. Did loads of potty sitting all afternoon and then had a huge accident. Have had him on the pot all morning before nursery and once on the toilet when he got up but he's produced nothing. Gone off to nursery now for the morning.
Does this sound fairly par for the course for 4 days with a 3 yr old boy? Nursery aren't stressing it but I find it all quite stressful, although I'm very careful not to convey that, just find it's on my mind a lot.
He only pees about 4 times a day as well which means we're getting less practice. I haven't tried giving him more to drink as I want to see what his natural pattern is and try and work with that. All poos have been overnight, so no chance to practice that.
I'm 34 weeks pg so feel the option of leaving it til later isn't there and anyway at 3 I think he really should be old enough to have a go. A week or two before we started he voluntarily did a poo in the toilet but we didn't start as the weather wasn't good and the nursery advised waiting til it got a bit warmer. So, I think he's capable, just it's a lot to learn. Does it just sort of suddenly click?
Sorry that was very long...