Is anyone potty traning at the mo? Wanna talk about it?

[Mum2Ela]

I am!

Anyone else?

x

ct, the novelty does wear off! Dd's nursery has mini toilets and the first day she was there in pants she was back and forth every 5 minutes. The next day she seemed to realise that she was missing out on other more interesting things!

jinxed myself - yesterday evening ds had two accidents -but of course when putting him to bed, every two minutes he says he wants the potty - daren't say no, but he was nearly an hour later going to bed - he did something 3 out of 5 times he sat on it. oh well, good days bad days. The pattern for accidents seem to be when he is tired, but then I almost get obsessive about asking him and he gets stroppy saying 'no, I'm sure'!

well, I suppose we are theoretically 'trained' in that ds1 has been out of nappies for about two to three months. however we are still having accidents (not many, but away at the weekend we had one each day) and I'm a bit frustrated by it. Basically ds1 will not ask to go to the toilet - he'll just wait until he's really desperate and then either have an accident, or I'll notice that he's clutching himself and tell him to go. If I ask him if he wants to go, sometimes he says yes but usually no (even if he really does need to and has an accident shortly after). I can keep him accident free only by taking control of it - insisting on him going to the toilet every 1.5-2 hours - sometimes this is a bit of a struggle which I'm sure isn't the 'right' thing to be doing, but I've got a bit fed up of him being too lazy to take the initiative (which I'm sure is what it is). But I'm also fed up of constantly having to persuade him onto the toilet. Anyone else been here and how did you progress to encouraging them to take a bit more responsibility? I've spoken to his nursery and interestingly they say that only a few of the children actually ask for the toilet (all girls!) so maybe this is just how we have to manage it for now. ds1 is 2 and 8 months, I'm sure he's physiologically ready as he can hold on for up to 3 hours on a car journey.

Tissy - thanks for giving me some hope.

hi elliot
We are in the same position as you. DS is 2.6 we have been 'out of nappies' for a couple of months. DS usually will not ask to go to the toilet unless he is desperate, and then he usually has a little accident. We usually take him to the toilet at regular intervals and he will do something. I think this is how the childminder handles it too. There are never any accidents on those days. The weekends are usually the worst when we are out shopping etc, and he just wont tell us at all and does a wee in his pram ( how lovely). I would have expected some progression by now , I was thinking about introducing a star chart for dry days, and a present after 1 week of no accidents. Does anyone have experience of potty training and star charts.?

hey cori you need a buppy pad then to combat that weeing in the pram.

www.buppy.co.uk

my dd is 2.2 and will happily sit on the toilet , is mad about getting to the toilet paper stage and wants to use loads but wont ever wee on the loo,

Then we put her back in her bright bots and 1 min later she has weed its a nightmare,

I have to confess i have kind of gone back to nappies for a while untill she decides to actually produce,

I have the added problem that she flat out refuses to sit on a potty

Well I thpught I would update you with how my DD is going. It seems that on day 5 (friday) she cracked it. I was upstairs with DH and she shouted up to us that she had weed in the potty (she had actually pooed!) and then produced something about 4 times in the next hour (to get a chocolate button methinks).

She has been really good this weekend - only 2 accidents yesterday (1 which was my fault as I moved her potty and she couldn't find it, and the second when she couldn't open the living room door to get her potty) and no accidents today. We went on one outing yesterday for about 3 hours and also out today, and no accidents then either. I am not usre whether she holds it whi;st we are out or just doesn't need to go.

Also, yesterday she fell asleep in the car with no nappy on and woke up dry, so today I put her down for her nap without a nappy and she woke up dry again! I am really proud of her!

Tomorrow I think I may approach the subject of using the toilet, which may make things easier when we are out and about.

DD is 2.3 and been out of nappies for 2 weeks. I havnt gonethe pull up route as thought it may be too confusing. We havnt had too many accidents except for when i put her pants on and then i think she forgets as she can feel something round her bottom iyswim

we bought a toddler toilet seat and a step today so I'll probably be joining this thread soon...aaaagh!! ds is 2.5 and we tried training in may but he just wasnt ready. potty seems to small as he is quite tall so we are going to try with toilet this time. we just need to bite the bullet and get started.

well done to all your little ones!
I need some advice.. ds (2.6) has been really good around the house with potty/toilet etc, but tomorrow we're heading into town...
should I..
1)put his big boy pants on + hope for best?(what happens if we're on train and he needs a wee etc?)

2)stick him back in a nappy (which he only has now for naps/sleep)

personally I would rather try him with pants so as not to confuse him etc, but dh wants to take the easier option (of course!)

If hes likely to fall asleep whilst out then id put a nappy on, if not then go for the pants. It could be a trial run for you & him, but take a spare of pants and trousers just in case

we're going to start dd in just over a weeks time, she'll be 2.5. Where can I get a trainer seat with handles, mu sil and cousin swear by them, but their children are much older

We left DD in pants rather than nappies on trips out - to avoid confusion, but took a potty (normal one in carrier bag hung on pushchair) with us and reminded her regularly. DD didn't get used to a travel potty until a few weeks after being dry. She was just fine. But you have to not be embarrassed by getting the potty out any time - street, shop, wherever!

If you do go down the nappy route try poutting pants on underneath - so your DS still gets the "wet" feeling if he does an accident - to remind him why it isn't great to not use a potty.

My ds is 2.8yrs and tomorrow I'm going for it!! I've told him for the last few days that we're going to say 'byebye' to the nappies tomorrow and 'hello' big boys pants. I've offered him the potty or the toliet which he's says 'not sure' to. He runs around for hours without a nappy on at the moment and never has an accident so I'm hoping it won't be too bad. We've got to stay at home for the next 4 days as I'm having my roof mended so I thought this would be a perfect time. I guess we all have to do it some time

I am also trying to potty train dd (26 months) and its going OK apart from
(1) She finds pulling pants down hard and
(2) waits for a nappy on (which she was before going to bed) before doing a poo.

Any advice on getting her to poo in the potty would be valued. I have tried really leaving her and then she poos on the floor and gets relly upset by it.

My DS is 2.11 so a bit older and i have been really going for it since yesterday - so there's no going back now. We've had accidents with the first wee of the day at 10.45 both days but then success. I bought a portable potty today. He normally poos when in bed either early am or at lunchtime so am leaving that issue until we need to deal with it - concentrating on wees for the time being. He hasn't yet said I want to go on the potty but has done it with prompting and then done a wee so i'm hoping that will start soon.

cazzybabs - have you tried puttig your DD in pants a size bigger than her normal size? They may be looser and therefore easier to deal with.

We have (and occasionally) still have the poo problem - trouble is she doesn't waitfor a nappy and has been known to do it in her pants or on the floor But these instances are much less now and she is far more consistent - but she likes her privacy. So I have to watch her for signs, then leave bathroom door open and light on - so she can go in there on her own without me being around. I then have to realise before she has finished as she isn't great at wiping herself yet!

Started this morning but not having much luck yet. So far had to bribe ds1 with an ice looly the put ' big boys pants' on and has so far wee'd twiced in his pants before sitting on his potty. I will keep going but I now concerned I'm doing it too soon. He's 2.8yrs.

On DD's first day of training we went pantless int he house - they then don't have to worry about pulling up and down pants. I also had the potty in the living area, next to where Dd was playing. If you have a carpet - put the pottty on a towel to catch "almost there" accidents.

Her pants are big - infact they nearly fall off. Having had a pantless first week I am now making her wear pants today - so I am prepared for lots of wet accidents. And its kind of reassuring that other people are having the poo problem. I had not thought of it being a privacy problem - so may investigate that angle of it!

Have been thinking about starting too. We have had some success with wees when I have let ds run around without nappy in the garden. But as with many of you, poos seem to be a problem. Yesterday he started doing a poo on the ground and then stopped. I spotted it and got him to sit on the potty, and read him a story so he stayed there some time, but no sign of poo. So I put nappy on and hey presto - poo in nappy! I think I shall try bribery now. The only problem I can see is that ds hates sitting down to poo, in fact I can't remember a time when he has (and I know he wants to stand because he was constipated a few months ago and I was advised to try and get him to sit down to poo as it's meant to be easier, but he just would not do it). ds is 2y8m.

With reagrds doing a poo omn the potty - I did resort to bribery!!! DD got a few chocolate buttons for each success.

I need help on the poo front too - well not me...The wees have gone really well for DD - she's coming up to 28 months - the travel potty has been a total success - but the poos are really difficult and usually end up in her pants - she says she needs the potty just as it's coming out (sorry for detail) Can senior MNs advise? Is this just a stage and suddenly they crack it or is there something I can do to help it along?

Do we need a seperate poo thread?

Ds1 has never had a problem pooing in the potty, but it was something we sorted out a long time before we took his nappies off. We had a long 'run up' period when I incorporated regular potty sitting into his routine after each mealtime - looking at a book together so they were quite long sessions! He would usually do a poo then and I found that his previously random poo times became pretty regular. Don't know whether this might help some of you struggling with poo accidents? I do find that even now I have to make sure that the after meal toilet sessions are long enough to give him time to do a poo - not just a quick sit and wee and off again in 10 seconds flat!
I did find it hugely helpful to be confident that he could 'produce' in the potty before I went the final step and took off the nappies.
We have had a good week - no accidents at all -I still need to prompt him to go but he is less resistant and occasionally has asked to go....