Wont go on potty......why????

[livysmum]

Hey mums.
okay, so DD is 22 months and is great with words and will soon have a baby sister in September which is the whoel reason we are desperate to get out of nappies, PLUS she gets bad rashes.
she says wee wees when she needs to go when she has no nappy on or says when shes has gone in her pull up. When we put her on the potty she just wont go and waits till we let her off and put her pull up on to go in it THEN we have to put a new one on...what a waste.
Anyone else have this problem? and tips to help her go IN the potty?
I've showed her how mummy does it so thats being done also.
HELP!

oh and its the same for poos too

I think she may well regress when the baby comes, so not worth doing intensive training now. The fact that she won't go willingly in the potty makes me think that while she knows she's about to wee sometimes, and also after she has done it, she is afraid to go in the potty.

Once things have calmed down after the new baby, and she is a few months older, you will probably have a better chance of success.

Sometimes DC don't like the potty and you will have better luck buying one of those loo seats and putting her on that - get a little step as well so her feet aren't dangling and give it a try.

I have got a fixed loo seat as the one that you just put on the top of the existing toilet seat wobbled and freaked her out

www.gltc.co.uk/fcp/product/-/potty%20training/Adult-&-Child-Toilet-Seat---White/2535

I have got a feeling that someone told me you culd get them in Argos.

My niece wouldn't go on the potty and my sister took her to mothercare and let her choose one and that worked quite well.

I have to say that it is far more convenient to have the toddler in nappies when the baby arrives so don't use that as your reason for potty training.

Have you tried lining the potty with a nappy - some people find that helps to break the initial fear of using the potty (didn't try it myself though so I don't speak from experience).

I tried to potty train my DD1 at 23 months, about 6 weeks before her sister was due. It was a DISASTER, even though she was clearly ready. I think it was partly because I was too stressed and desperate to get her out of nappies before the baby arrived and she picked up on it. After a few days I gave up and resigned myself to her being in nappies when DD2 arrived. In the end I was very glad I did, it was v easy and convenient to have her still in nappies when DD2 was tiny. I waited until DD2 was 3 months old and tried again when I was calm and everything had settled down. She was dry in about 3 days and poos sorted a week later.

The thing is that even once they are trained you have to be ever vigilant for a couple of months afterwards which isn't easy when you have a newborn to look after too. The other worry with a newly potty trained toddler is that they will soon realise that their occasional and inevitable accidents get your full attention away from the baby and, well, you can imagine what that's likely to lead to.....

I would say maybe to try all out for 3 or 4 days. Nappies off completely and no putting on pull ups. If by the end of 4 days she isn't getting at least a high percentage of wees in the potty call it a day and wait until after the baby.

This is exactly what happened with my dd but it was really a stage where she knew she wanted to go but wasn't quite ready for the potty. It was quite annoying at first, going through loads of nappies but at least she was doing something about going in terms of wanting a new nappy for it. The next stage for us was that she would wee in the potty and want a new nappy on for a poo but after a couple of weeks, this wore off and it was potty all the time!

Not sure if this is a normal process but it really wasn't too bad overall and dd was completely dry, night and day, from 2. I think the main thing is not to put too much pressure on her and just be glad she's aware. Keep asking her every 30mins to an hour if she wants to go and I'm sure it'll all take care of itself.

great advice people thanks a bunch!

Day 3 now so lets cross fingers and see what happens. Shes a HUGE Dora fan so I may get the Dora potty seat I saw the other day.
cheers
I'll keep you posted