Potty Training Meltdown

[Robeena]

I started potty training my son last November when he was 25mths - he was fine to pee on the toilet using the child seat. Wearing his pants once he'd done a poo in his nappy during the day. Then he decided to he wanted to poo on the toilet with daddy, but just before he was about to do his first poo with my husband - my husband answered his mobile and the poor baby pooed on his foot.
After that he wouldn't go near the toilet or the seat again.
Finally decided at the weekend that he's had enough time to forget and we'll start again. So we went in at the deep end and put him in pants in the morning and kept asking him if he wanted to pee/poo.
We had 5 accidents no successes on the Saturday.
On the Sunday we had 3 accidents and 3 success - but no poo.
Today I am on my own and we had 4 accidents - 2 poo related and I had a melt down after the last poo accident and shouted at him. After I stopped crying and calmed down and I put my other baby to bed we had a pee success.
So I am hoping I haven't scarred him for life. My only excuse is I am pregnant with #3 and a little hormonal and probably being ambitious trying to toilet train my eldest
with the 2nd one trying to get in on the action.
I need to hear if anyone else has had a success story with going in at the deepend like this - my eldest is 32months.

hi

just saw your post, and I wanted to send you my sympathy about potty training while pregnant. I potty trained my DS1 (now 33 months) a couple of months ago and I'm about to have my next one.

Don't worry - your DS will be fine, they move on very quickly. Think about how fast they go from hysterical tantrum to angel at that age! I would just stick to rewarding him for successes (we used toy cars) and ignoring accidents - easier said than done I know. I found that a few practical things really helped me keep my temper. for example keeping a supply of clean clothes handy downstairs so I didn't have to rush around if there was an accident. Also "bare bottom time" worked well if DS had a spate of accidents (less difficult to clear up and for some reason better chance of success).

By the way, almost everyone I know who has potty trained did it by putting their DC in pants and mopping up the accidents. And, despite the large number of "potty train in x days" books around, it generally takes a couple of weeks at least. It took us three weeks of several accidents a day before DS started to get the hang of it. He now only has one or two accidents a week.

hope that helps. Good luck with the potty training and pregnancy,

Sending you sympathy. My DS is same age, we have been 5 weeks out of nappies and still 4-5 accidents most days. Have just put him back in a nappy in exasperation and come onto MN to look for inspiration!

Is your dc motivated by stickers?

It might be worth trying to get dc to use potty by using what is called "wee stickers" I think.

I used one with my dc and she was very keen to go and use potty cos could see wee sticker.

Basically it a sticker in the potty which is black until they use it, and it then reveals a picture. My DD was a star one.

Will see if I can find a link for you.

www.onestoppottyshop.co.uk/friend-star-p-1802.html?osCsid=5kstptp3ddo72ftccmbibqfbf7

This is what the wee sticker it - just one of many sites that sell it.