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Anyone else potty training atm?

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CheesyFeet · 28/01/2007 09:50

I have started potty training dd (2.6) today. Is there anyone else out there I can share stories of scraping shit off the carpet with????

We gave gone nappy-cold-turkey, straight into Big Girl Pants. She sits on the potty every 20 mins or so. Nothing yet, but we've only been up for an hour

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lissielou · 28/01/2007 09:51

trying desperatly to put it off good luck

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CheesyFeet · 28/01/2007 10:00

Thanks lissielou - I've put it off as long as I can, I was hoping to wait until summer but she kept asking to do wees in the potty and I couldn't tell her *"no - do wees in your nappy darling" without worrying about permamently scarring the poor child!

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WelshBoris · 28/01/2007 10:09

I started properly today. DD is 2.4.

She hates the potty and has peed on the floor twice already this morning.

It's going to be a long day.

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CheesyFeet · 28/01/2007 10:14

Poor you WB Would she be happier on the toilet perhaps?

I have a bucket of antiseptic on standby

Still nothing...

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WelshBoris · 28/01/2007 10:15

Might try her on the toilet once I've finished my breakfast.

I'm in no rush though, as long as she is out of nappies before she goes to comp!

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CheesyFeet · 28/01/2007 10:18

lol

I keep telling myself that re nappies and dummies - you don't see too many school age children with them - she'll get there in the end.

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WelshBoris · 29/01/2007 14:40

DD did a pee in the potty yesterday, I'm in work today but my mum just texted to say she did a poo in it!!!!!!!!

SO chuffed. Told everyone on the course I'm on about it.

They now think I am barking mad

"So you're excited because your daughter pooed?"

fennel · 29/01/2007 14:42

I would be potty training if dd3 (2y9m) weren't so utterly incompetent at it.

we keep postponing in the hope she suddenly becomes less clueless.

WelshBoris · 29/01/2007 14:44

DD hates the potty fennel, but I'm just cracking on this week and hoping for the best.

fennel · 29/01/2007 14:48

My dd likes the toilet (not the potty) and wearing knickers. she just is absolutely no good at it, in that she's never been successful.

am a bit nonplussed, having had 2 who learnt easily and young without us really doing anything. have lost previous status as smug know-it-all early-potty-training mother.

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CheesyFeet · 29/01/2007 20:41

Well the last couple of days have been murder.

Total number of wees on potty/toilet - 0
Total number of poos on potty/toilet - 0
Total number of wees in pants - blardy loads
Total number of poos in pants - 1
Total number of wees on carpet - blardy loads
Total number of curly turds on carpet - 1

Arrgghhhh

Two days in I am ready to give up, am I expecting too much to have made at least some progress by now...

DD is my first so I need help and advice from all you wise mners who have been there. [begging emoticon]

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PizPizPiz · 29/01/2007 20:57

We're in the same boat fennel. I started sitting my 2.4y old dd regularly throughout the day about 3 weeks ago. Result, 1 tiny poo and 1 pee !! in 3 weeks ! I tried to go cold turkey once but gave up after 2 hours, 5 wees on the floor and one poo. All I did during those 2 hours was mopping the floor. She just doesn't get it. But I'm determined to have her trained before #2 arrives in June ... ha ha ha ...

Flumpytina · 29/01/2007 20:59

CheesyFeet I was at EXACTLY the same point as you with dd1 (at about the same age as your dd is when we started training).
Days 1 and 2 were hopeless...nowt in potty or loo (PLENTY in pants plus carpets). And then right at the end of day 3, a miracle, a wee in the potty, hurraaaah (out came the chocolate buttons).
And she totally got it. We were amazed, by the end of the week she was completely dry and clean.
We (dh and I) had set ourselves a timescale of 3 days, if there had been no success at all by the end of day 3 we were were going to go back to nappies for a few more months and then try again. dd must have sensed our plan and decided to perform right at the cusp of us giving in!!
HTH..keep trying for another day imo!!

strangefruit · 29/01/2007 21:00

hello cheesy

I would leave it a month or so, your dd is not ready, but the weekend will have started the thought of potty training, and hopefully it will be easier next time

my dd was potty trained for starting playgroup and it was easter, so warmer, so she could go outside in the garden to play and if there was na accident it wasn't so hard

my ds is 2.9 and I haven't even begun potty training, he is having problems with speech and it is very cold, i would like him to be pt by the time he starts nursery after the summer hols, so no hassle

NappiesGalore · 29/01/2007 21:04

me.

training ds1 (3.7) and ds2 (2.6)

sort of.

badly.

chickenpox and flu slowing progress down tho.

sigh.

think ill keep burying my head in the sand and hope they just figure it out for themselves...

suzycreamcheese · 29/01/2007 21:06

i should be doing this, potty training, but the screams flipouts 'bonelessness' tears blotchy face freak outs that the sight of a pair of pants gives to ds... I just havent yet! not properly...
he's 2.10
bright in every other way, he knows what is going on / expected but just hates change methinks?
am secretly hoping he will just ask me for them one day and i'll be saying didnt know what that was alll about then..
have stopped stressing for the meantime, recent chat w/ nurse helped alot ....but probably should do something about it

I DONT LIKE PANTS....its his mantra right now..

good luck ladies....will watch with interest ..

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CheesyFeet · 29/01/2007 21:06

Cheers girls Hmmm, one for and one against giving up!

Any more stories?

Please???

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NappiesGalore · 29/01/2007 21:15

pants not popular here either, but were getting there... ds1 is over 3 and half suzy, so no need to blush with me doing way worse than you..

ds1 now wearing pants willingly to go out of house - because it is a condition i set; if you wanna come out, you have to wear pants - so fine, BUT despite constant reminders to tell me if he needs a wee, he never admits it and just wets himself instead. sigh.

keep many chnage of clothes inc socks and shoes handy at all times. sigh.

hes wearing pull-up training pants to nurseryschool in the mornings, and they sometimes come home dry, but hes v sceptical of using toilet facilities outside the house at all anywhere. sigh.

indoors, naked from the waist down, hes great. never an accident. wee's and poo's staright in the toilet, wipes, flushes, washes hands the lot. all by himself. sometimes doesnt even tell an adult.

so theres good and bad.

well, you did ask for stories!

strangefruit · 29/01/2007 21:22

nappies you have my respect, i saw a post of yours somewhere else saying you were potty training two ds, and I was really wanting to ask about it there but I didn't

any advice on potties for boys?
are you using potty or training seat thing?
our ds willy always sticks over rather than pointing down, sorry tmi?

It is pretty good that your ds can go and do all that himself when he is at home

NappiesGalore · 29/01/2007 21:22

ds2 in more or less the same 'place' but has had the Pox for over a fortnight now, so have left him alone... and he uses the potty, not the toilet. and he hasnt worn pants out yet.

still, they cant all be in pull ups when theyre 15 can they?? (she said, burying head agin)

NappiesGalore · 29/01/2007 21:28

hi fruity

respesct utterly misplaced - i am crap at this!!

potty types preffered round here are the seat kind... will try to find link. they have them in mothercare. noses were much turned up at the standard potties... and that sodding litaf potty that turns into a training seat thing is a Total Waste of Money lol

training seat: uttermistrust of things that move. now have the 'family seat' also from mothercare which ds1 loves.

show him how to sort of tuck his willy in IYSWIM and help him shift position back a bit so it has a chance of going in rather than all down his legs/floor

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CheesyFeet · 29/01/2007 21:33

dd is turning into a potty refusenik too. dh has bought a padded seat thingy for our normal loo so we'll try that from tomorrow.

pmsl @ having to tuck in willies, that never occured to me, only having a girl!

I'm back at work next week, she won't be sorted by then will she [sob]

Am currently hating friend whose ds trained himself at 22 months

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BabiesEverywhere · 29/01/2007 21:52

Sorry things are not going smoothly with DD.

I vote for continuing until Thursday and if things are still pants by then, settle for a chocolate and wine pig out at my house instead and try again with DD another week.

After all you never see a school aged child in nappies, they all get it at some point.

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CheesyFeet · 29/01/2007 22:01

Oh BE that sounds perfect...

But I have used a precious week's annual leave to do this. Keep your fingers crossed...

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NappiesGalore · 29/01/2007 22:02

links i mentioned but never di

'seat' potty which the ds's all like

and family seat thing which ds1 likes coz it doesnt move precariously when hes on it