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Potty training regression

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Nix99 · 27/11/2023 19:42

DD has been potty trained for nearly 4 months now but we have recently welcomed a new baby (DS is 12 days old) and we seem to have had a bit of a slip. It's never a full accident, just damp pants/ trousers and this is usually just once, possibly twice a day so not a massive thing but it is a step back to where she was. I'm implementing the whole giving her special her and me time and talking it through etc but my main question is; do I go back to prompting her? If I tell her to go toilet/ potty she usually will but prior to brother arriving she was successfully self initiating so do I go back to prompting her to go every so often or will this cause her to stop self initiating? (She does still self initiate sometimes at the moment) Or do I ride it out waiting for her to tell me she needs to go and hope she picks back up to where she was without the damp pants?

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SarahLHs · 27/11/2023 19:57

We had very similar with DD1 when DD2 arrived just before she turned 3. She'd been dry for months and started having accidents.

In our case it was definitely an attention seeking thing. When she wet herself we got her changed without talking about the accident or making a big deal of it. When she did go on the toilet we gave her lots of praise and also bought a sticker chart in the end that she could use every time she weed on the toilet.

It was a few months before it stopped completely but it did start becoming less frequent fairly quickly.

KCSIE · 27/11/2023 20:20

SarahLHs · 27/11/2023 19:57

We had very similar with DD1 when DD2 arrived just before she turned 3. She'd been dry for months and started having accidents.

In our case it was definitely an attention seeking thing. When she wet herself we got her changed without talking about the accident or making a big deal of it. When she did go on the toilet we gave her lots of praise and also bought a sticker chart in the end that she could use every time she weed on the toilet.

It was a few months before it stopped completely but it did start becoming less frequent fairly quickly.

We had similar but not until baby was around 3m and ours was short lived - a bit under 2 weeks. We went back to profuse praise and potty dances, it was definitely an attention thing here too and we also didn't react to it just got them changed and said wee goes in the toilet.

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