Potty trained child now regressing

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I'm looking for a little advice. My DS1 is 3yo at the end of the month and has been potty trained for 5 months but after the first 2 months of toilet trained bliss, he started to regress after xmas. He started wetting himself and stopped asking to go to the loo. So after a while of trying to get him back on track without success, we resorted to taking him to the toilet whenever we thought he would need to go. But, if i don't take him, he has accidents. Incidentally, he never has a poo accident. Will this blip just pass, or what do I do? Thanks in advance for any advice anyone offers!

Yes its a blip.
Both my two regressed.
I think its when they stop thinking all the time about not being in nappies, but they haven't mastered thinking in advance that they might need a loo soon.
Just stick with it, if he managed it for 2 months then he can get back on track again.

Thanks for the encouragement. I forgot to mention that ds2 is now 1 month old so I guess ds1's world has been turned upside down, although he seems to be coping with it all fine and really loves ds2. The regression started beforeds2 arrived anyway but I guess it could be related.

My DD is 4, potty trained for a year and still goes through phases like this and is just a phase tried everything and i found that the best thing is no attention for it relax because it probably wont be the last and will only stress you out, and just let them get on with it even if it does mean accidents they will get it quicker again if they dont have to reley on you. this is just in my experience of trying eveything!!

Thanks angie - do you think then that I shouldn't tell him when to go to the loo and just wait for him to "ask" again like he did before? I am wondering if I am making things worse by taking the responsibility away from him.

yeah def just give him back responsibility i'm not saying you wont get accidents you will but he sure will get it quicker, talking from bitter experience i went on taking dd every 2 hours for a good couple of months and the longer it went on the more reliant she was on me, so if i never took her she never bothered to go wet herself or held on. i know its horrible but think of it as starting again lots of juice and letting him go

I think you are probably right. Will have to grin and bear it with the accidents I think. not looking forward to it but really want to get back to where we were a few months ago.

yeah i know its so hard love being a mum but i hate this potty training dreading doing dd2! my dd is 4 went through one of her phases last week, just taking me a week to get her out of it AGAIN so i do know how you are feeling as have a young baby too good luck