Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

Please or to access all these features

Parenting

For free parenting resources please check out the Early Years Alliance's Family Corner.

Toddler scared of toilet - advice needed...

8 replies

sophierosie · 23/11/2007 22:08

DD is scared of going to the toilet after having tummy bug 3 weeks ago.

She's been toilet trained for about 3 months and took to it really well. She now refuses to go to the toilet all morning and is holding in her wee - this isn't doing her any good as I'm sure she gave herself a urine infection as she said it hurt yesterday when my mum managed to bribe her onto the potty.

I don't want to put her back into nappies as I know she knows to go on the toilet, but I don't want her to hold on for up to 5 hours, until she can't hold it anymore.

Please help - its doing my head in as I getting her to go to the toilet is so stressful and I don't want to have to physically force her onto the toilet or potty as that'll scare her even more

Am trying to be as patient as possible and really encouraging when she does go (have managed about 3 wees in the last week), made a new sticker chart, bought new stickers, bribed her with jelly babies etc...

The times she has gone to the toilet is when she's gone with other toddlers, which is ok when we're out with friends, but not for the rest of the time... and is of course dependent on other toddlers bladders

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
motherhurdicure · 23/11/2007 22:50

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

sophierosie · 24/11/2007 23:13

Thanks for responding!

We have had some success today - she seems to be able to go in the potty so thats a great improvement.

Have just read that sometimes a UTI can make them lose the urge to go so that could have.

Fingers crossed the good work will continue tomorrow...

OP posts:
motherhurdicure · 25/11/2007 11:53

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

Interested in this thread?

Then you might like threads about these subjects:

sophierosie · 25/11/2007 20:15

All ok this morning - even managed to get her on the toilet at my dads this morning with the promise of being able to use the pink handwash!

Then before lunch when I knew she was desperate for the the loo she refused to go on either the potty or toilet by clinging onto her knickers crying that her bottom was cold! Then huge puddle 5 mins later...

Breath in, breath out, breath in, breath out...

OP posts:
motherhurdicure · 26/11/2007 11:22

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

needmorecoffee · 26/11/2007 11:24

go back to the potty, posswibly away from the toilet. We had this with my second child and it took a while for him to overcome the fear.

sophierosie · 26/11/2007 15:08

There now appears to be no rhyme or reason to DD's toilet choices today. Wee'd on the toilet at toddler group today - first she wanted to sit on the potty then kicked up a fuss and so I gave her an ultimatum of going to the toilet or leaving toddler group. She then jumped on the toilet and went!

Then an accident in the car as took ages finding a parking space as she shouted 'I want to do a wee on the pavement!' but couldn't get her out of the seat in time

Maybe keeping her in knickers is worth a try, but she may get more upset as she's quite sensitive about weeing on her clothes, but could counteract her cold bottom!

OP posts:
JoanWilder · 26/11/2007 15:16

very interesting thread as I begin the potty training next spring...useful to know as much as poss

New posts on this thread. Refresh page