Potty training started today!!!

[hotCheeseBurns]

Ds turned 3 yesterday and I decided to try him out in pants today! Haven't really prepared but we have one potty upstairs and one downstairs and we've had two accidents and two wees in the potty so far! He's had one of his christmas chocolates for each wee in the potty and I've promised him two chocolates if he does a poo.

Is it stupidly optimistic to think that because he's three this might be quite easy?

I'm slightly concerned that he hasn't done a poo yet today, I'm hoping he's not holding it in. And I'm wondering if there's any chance I'll be able to go out in the sales with a potty training little one?!

Any advice/ideas welcome!

He's been asleep on the sofa for an hour or so, I've wrapped a plastic bag around him to protect it...

Lol at the plastic bag. They don't wee in their sleep ... apparantly!

We are potty training DS2 (2 end Jan) and everyone thinks we are mad to do it over Xmas but it is the one time we are in the house a lot and have lots of helpers and not much else to do.

It should be easy at 3 I would have thought - they are definitely capable of holding it if they want to!

Yes, it's my only chance really because I never normally get a week and a half at home. We've had three wees in the potty, two in his pants and one poo in his pants - he was on the way to the potty but got there too late.

How's yours going haventslept?

Good luck! We are starting tomorrow with DS2 who is 2.8. We did DS1 at this age but he was a dream - only took a day. Can't imagine DS2 being that easy though - they're like chalk and cheese. This time tomorrow I imagine I'll be needing a large vodka ...

It's going quite well, he calls out "it's coming!" and rushes towards the furthest away potty! We've had four or five wees in the potty after a couply of accidents first thing this morning. Still haven't had a poo in the potty though.

He seems to be doing lots of tiny little wees and getting a chocolate each time, maybe my treat idea wasn't that well thought out! I have a special star chart lurking about somewhere...

It's scary having to this potty training lark!
My ds was 2.8yrs by the time he had cracked it. I did it over about 4mths and was so relieved when i wasnt having to wash most of his wardrobe every day or so. My dd (20mths) on the otherhand has started training herself and have decided that as of tomorrow we are going into pants only mode.... she is almost there and will happily wee and poo on the potty. I just cant help but think she is still a baby.

Good luck HCB and i hope the poo comes out soon (oh and on the potty rather than the pants - not nice)

Hello scrambledhead
Hello hotCheeseBurns
Hello HaventSlept

Please can I join your mental-enough-to-potty-train-at-Christmas club?

Starting today with DS2 (2.7) who flatly refuses to go anywhere near the toilet despite his 4 y.o brother's enthusiastic demonstrations. Possibly prepared to wee in Thomas potty, but hampered by the fact that he's a really big boy for his age and physically cannot cram his entire bottom onto the potty and tuck his little bits and pieces inside.

Both my others were dry day & night by 2.3.... don't know where I've gone so wrong with this one!

Trust me they do wee in their sleep!
as nicely demonstrated to me a few weeks ago when dd weed on daddys side of the bed when we had a nice nap!!

Hi We have just started as well. Had a bad day today as she (DD 2.4) had to go to Nursery for a few hours and managed to wee and poo herself!

Like a meadowfullofchristmastrees DD She has been leading us until a few days ago, asking for the potty alot, had a tantrum in John Lewis as she wanted to go potty and not in her nappy etc.

So here we are, day 3 of no nappies in the day (she does not nap) and if anything she is worse

I am going to be stubborn though, I can cope with washing etc and Nursery are happy enough as she did wee in the potty once so are willing to go with us on it.

I do wish I could just stay at home for a week though!

well I'm giving it a go too because I have no other stretch of 10 days to give it a good start until Easter. DS is 2.7 and today is day 1. No wee successes but a poo success. I've decided to just go with putting him in pants and offering the potty after meals/nap but otherwise leaving it to him and hoping eventually he'll correlate the getting wet/having to change thing?! I don't want to put the pressure on. Also have decided it will only be in the home till he knows what he's doing. I don't care about accidents at home as laminate floors and washing not a problem but out and about we'll use pull ups for the time being.

We went shopping today and he wore pull-up pant nappies, he didn't want to wee in the big toilets and I don't blame him so he used his nappy and then was back in pants once we got home.

We've had two poos in the potty now! One yesterday and one this evening. He always shouts if he needs to go, usually we make it too the potty, sometimes it's too late. I remind him every now and then that if he needs to wee or poo he has to go to the potty, he seems pretty happy and proud.

Tomorrow we're driving 200 miles to stay with the ILs for three nights, which will be interesting! I think that they'll be cooperative and help but I don't know how the change of scenery will affect ds.

Wish me luck! Hope all of yours go well over new years and keep the mental-enough-to-potty-train-at-Christmas club going!

Well done little cheese Did he get a treat?

I will keep your thread going in your absence (as I was lazy and joined yours rather than doing my own )

DD started telling us about poos first. I think some of them just hate being dirty first rather than knowing they are wet.

After a few hours at Nursery she knows about being wet, we noticed she has a rash all over her bottom and legs from the wee when we bathed her. Obviously she did not shout loud enough about her accidents at nursery so has wee burn

Have a read of Gina Fords Potty training in 7 days. The 7 day thing is rubbish in RL but it does have some good tips. Sounds like your DS is at the 1st stage and it would be good to get him in a routine of sitting on the potty ready for going cold turkey on nappies when you get back for the IL.

Well I suppose we made some progress yesterday because he went from being a complete potty refusenik to sitting on the toilet willingly. Also got one wee on target and one poo so hurrah for that.

But I cleaned up more poo and wee than I can ever remember having to do for the others...

Also he's a boy with a sense of humour and periodically throughout the afternoon shouted 'A wee comes' and legged it to the toilet with me in hot pursuit, only to stand there saying 'weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee' and then tell me 'A pretend wee mummy'. My nerves are in shreds.

The wees are going well here but no poo yet and it's day 3 so I'm starting to get worried....

I've been doing all the obvious stuff - plenty of fluids, fruit, etc. Fingers crossed one comes out soon!

Hello everyone. Cheese it sounds like you are doing well if he's warning you.

DS will go on the potty (has been for over a year 1st thing in the morning) when we tell him to, but mostly tells us AS he is doing his wee in his pants.

We are away with family at the moment so he is in disposables (which he treats like pants - normally in reusables) but we are putting him on the potty regularly.

I think it's unlikely we'll be done by the New Year .

But you never know, with DS1 we did it over 10 days at half-term and he was "reliable" a week or so later.

Still optimistic!

Good progress here today too. We even ventured into town. Made a dash for the public loos once but she refused to go and held it all the way home

Must buy another little seat to take out with us. She hates her potette now

No poo today either. She is is a foul mood right now, I think she needs to go but is holding it in!

May I join in?

DD (2.1) has been in pants since... hmmm. Could have been Boxing day or the day after. We tried some potty training back in October, but she was still at the wee-when-it-comes stage and didn't appear to know when it was coming. She'd willingly wee and poo on the potty when put on it though.

This time around she's a wee bit more potty-phobic. However, she's willingly sat on it most of the times I've asked her to once we got started. She has one or two accidents a day and seem to be either constipated or avoiding poo. However, she whines when she wets herself and manages to hold some in and then use the potty successfully after that which I'm taking to be a good sign. She had diarrhoea today (probably over-dairy consumption) and with a bit of persuasion managed to do it on the potty which was such a pleasure compared with dealing with the washable nappy aftermath!

I'm tending to ask her to go to the potty several times a day and she's not asking to go (other than looking obviously uncomfortable and looking relieved when I ask if she wants to go). Is this a bad sign? Or will that come in a couple of days?

So proud - she even did a wee in the toilet at the swimming pool with Granny today

...by constipated I mean that until the diarrhoea today she only had one poo since Christmas day, and she saved that for her nappy which we still put on at nap time. It's been dry after naps the past few days which is good!

Hi hobnob we are keeping hotcheeses thread going while she is away I am sure she will be glad of your experience (as am I!).

DD seems to be holding in the poos as well. She woke in the middle of the night and we played for 4 hours before she went back off I think it is the potty training rather than anything else.

She will get the hang of asking. Have you dived straight in or have you had a potty around for a while now?

I have had one laying around and she has used it quite well if bared bottomed at home for a few months. Now I am going for the full on no nappies at all in the day thing.

DD asked for a Nappy today but would not go on the potty or toilet, I think she held in a poo We will see, I suspect she may produce first thing in the morning!

Well done everyone, lots of successes!

All going well here... day 3. Yesterday was completely dry and clean, no accidents. Today so far too but this morning he went from when he went up until 1.30 before his first wee! We've since had another wee and a poo. He's pretty willing to go on the potty and produce when I ask but he hasn't yet asked once... I guess this is normal, how long till he starts asking and I don't have to ask every half hour or so? Really proud of him though, given no wee successes on the first day I really had anticipated that I'd be doing a lot more washing than I am now. And so thankful all poos have been in the potty so far, I'm very worried about those being in pants! I guess we'll have setbacks though, but currently pleased with the progress!

Hello all you others trying to potty train at this 'mad' time of year... I'm a SAHM but have been waiting for DD (2.8yo) to be ready, hopefully she will start nursery the wek after she turns 3 so i need her going to the toilet alone before then. I'm also expecting begining of april so want her in knickers by then too!!

DS potty trained at 2.1yo so was very early... DD just hadn't grasped getting knickers down before going for a wee until recently... she was fine all day if she had a bare bum but the last few months has been a bit too cold for a bare bum even with the heating on!!

This morning decided it was time to have her in knickers full-time during the day and eccidents will be dealt with. Went and did a Tesco shop this morning too... and went out to my sisters (10min drive away) aswell this morning... we've had one wee in her knickers, and one poo in her knickers... so so far so good really!!

Sounds like others are doing well too!!

Still doing ok - no accidents today, but wondering if I've begun too early if DD shows no signs of actually asking to go to the potty (I'm pestering her) nor ever taking her own trousers/pants down, preferring to allow me to do it! I'm assuming it'll come with time over the next couple of weeks [please give me reassurance emoticon]

Hi all, glad you are all having progress!

hobnob57 - I think she will get the idea, it may take a while if she is so young. Was she telling you as she went in her nappy?

2 of the signs of rediness are being able to take their own bottoms off and telling you when they go. If she did not do that then maybe give it a day or so more and if no progress leave it for a month or two?
We tested the water a few times before this but now DD seems much more ready, even prefers the toilet to the potty etc.

TBH your DD sounds just like mine a few months back, nearly there but not quite. Although if I had the time off work then I would have gone for it too From what I have read they do still get it it just takes a bit longer and therefore more accidents

DD went to Nursery again today and only had 2 accidents all day. However tonight after tea she looked like she needed a poo - she refused to go to the loo but some kind of escaped on its' own so I had pooy pants to deal with. She still did not go to the toilet, I think maybe Nursery told her off earlier as she seems a bit frightened of it now

glas - mad time of year definately but a few extra days at home to try and crack it! And lots of new toys to keep her occupied when we have to stay at home.

Happy New Year everyone! Here's to dry knickers tomorrow

Hello- we had no more accidents afetr i posted yesterday... and this morning she'd taken her nappy off before i'd even gone in to get her out of bed... all was dry and she'd 'gone' in the potty too. We've had no accidents today so far, going to my parents later for new years tea... hoping she'll be dry until then so we can let her show off and be proud!!

Happy new year all you potty training mummies!!

Hello all

Hobnob - same is going on here... very successful but all prompted by me. DS is now (day 4) starting to pull his trousers down, so maybe there's hope. We've also had him not asking as such but vaguely stopping what he's doing and heading towards the potty, he then looks vague and I say "shall we try the potty?" and he says "yes". But he's not once said "I need a wee/poo".

So we had out first few outings in the last 24 hours. For NYE we stayed over at friends and he was completely dry/clean (except night nappy obviously) but he didn't actually perform on the potty once whilst we were out he held it the whole time! And this afternoon we went out for a two hour walk in the woods with car journey either side and again he just held it the entire time.

I feel quite positive about it, tomorrow we've got a bit shopping trip planned so that'll be a test!