Hoping someone can help.
DD2 is 3 next month and we’ve had 2 failed potty training attempts.
We are giving it another crack again today as both DH and I are off for 4 days for Easter.
The poor girl is petrified of releasing into the potty and she will withhold her wee and poo for hours (today, she held it in for 7 hours before getting hysterical and then wetting herself). We had been asking at 30 min intervals and she’d sat on the potty prior to her accident a number of times.
We have tried lots of tactics such as distraction, blowing bubbles, rhymes, big sister helping, trying her on the toilet with a trainer seat, rewards (stickers, toys, sweets) etc, putting an open nappy in the potty etc. We are always calm and encouraging.
She’s a smart girl and knows what to do, she loves reading her potty book at night and is excited to put her knickers on, the problem is actually releasing her wee into the potty - there seems to be some sort of mental block.
She will happily sit on the potty when she doesn’t need to go.
Can anyone offer any advice? She starts preschool after Easter and ideally would like her trained before then.
DD1 was trained in a week so this is all new!