Day 4 in the wee wee house - carry on or give up?

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DD is 2.8yrs in real nappies which she now screams when we try to put one on her - definatly wants to wear pants. Has been like this for the last 4 days so been letting her wear them. Each time she wees she knows what she is doing and will say she is weeing - if I miss it she comes and points to where she has done it (limited speech - seeing a SALT as well - but can say wee wee and yes!). Wil sit on the potty but so far has only managed 3 sucessess in 4 days and these always when I sat her on it not when I asked if she needed to go on it. Can stay dry for at least 1 1/2 hours - even longer in a morning and accidents generally are more in the afternoon and accepts that nappies are needed for sleeping in. What do i do? Give up or perserve? Seem to hear so many stories of "having it cracked by day 3" and everyone seems to think "she should be out of nappies by now" definatly showing lots of positive signs equally don't want to spend months mopping up pee - don't mind making the most of the good weather but have my limits!

I do sympathise, it's frustrating, isn't it? Will she absolutely not put a nappy on?
Will she use the toilet instead of the potty?

Just screams and trys to take them off when putting in for sleeps but understands that they are needed. Will sit on the toilet just as happy as sitting on the potty - just nothing ever happens!!

I understand you might oppose idea of pull-ups if you're using real nappies, but could this be an option while you wait a bit longer? (But they don't really encourage toileting, IMO). Might save you cleaning up endless wee, though!

Or bribing with a Smartie/Choc Button etc for each wee in potty or toilet?

My dd cracked it on day 6, just as I was about to give up, so it might be worth giving it the full week. I made her sit on the potty / toilet every half-hour and went straight on to bribery - 1 choc button for a wee, three for a poo.
I too was going spare on days three, four and five, then she just got it. Much slower than her brother, who'd got it on day two, so I really thought she was too young (like your ds, she'd decided herself no more nappies).
Good luck!!

I started my potty training my DD on Monday of last week. She is 2yrs and 2 weeks old and I am under pressure from the nursey she is attending in September to 'have her dry' by then. Have been locked in the house ever since. Day 1 - went quite well. Day 2 - ok. Days 3, 4 and 5 - a disaster!! Was about to call the whole thing off, deeming that she was not ready. However, decided to keep going and am so glad I did, as the last 3 days have been a resounding success. All pees and poos in the potty!! So chin up and don't give up.

my dd is 4 in november and I am back to training her, she was dry for quite a while but last 2-3 months she just keeps wetting herself and nursery getting fed up with it-me too, most o the time she remembers abut almost daily is wetting herself, she just leaves it too late or gets too involved in what she is doing its a nightmare

Are you running the tap when she is on the potty to help her to go? I found it useful when both of mine were potty training and once the feeling of sitting on the loo/potty was connected with running water and then weeing I found I used it less and less.

I have had a few problems potty training my ds after he decided he DID NOT want to wear nappies in the day. Bizarly he is happy to wear them at night and does it without a fuss.

I would definatly stick with it as everyone was telling me to give up (ds is quite young) and just when I was about to, I decided to give it one more day and since then we have only had afew accidents here and there when he has fallen asleep in the car or buggy.

I would definatly give it a weeks or two to give her a chance if you can.

rubberduck - how about putting her in old fashioned training pants (like washable pull-ups)i got some in mothercare but they were huge so get a smaller size or at least take them out of the pack and check out the size !They are plastic/towelling so will at least stop the wee puddles!
i'd say persevere with potty training as she's so keen on the idea GOOD LUCK

Perserve!

You need to take her to the potty every 30-40 mins in teh early days. She can't decide for herself yet.

You'll (and she) will be fine

Thanks for all the advice - I have lost count now of what day it is but did stick with it. Now using towelling reusable pants and also at times just ordinary pants which are working well and better still I'm no longer obsessed with what day everyone cracked it on and now just listening to those people who say things like "it does take a while" "stick with it" "she'll get there". So far no great sucess with actually going on a potty/toilet - but she stays dry for a really long time - only goes once in the morning and 2/3 times in the afternoon - does now know to pull pants up and down and will sit on the potty quite happily (rarely does owt though!) So my new line of defence is when accidents happen in public I just say - how dear and inform nosey adults that we just started yesterday!!!!