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Potty training boot camp, anyone want to join me starting tomorrow???

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notevenamousie · 19/06/2009 18:58

DD is 2.6
We've introduced pull ups, the potty, the toilet-with-a-thomas-seat-on.
Tomorrow I am starting no nappies. Bare bottom.

I take it this means I can't go out??
And if so, who else is going through it that would like to join in a thread with me???

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notevenamousie · 27/06/2009 17:21

I assume it's months, Jammy

Welcome, cyphercat. A wise mum of 3 (2 older than mine and successfully toilet trained) said to me to take them every 15-20 minutes to start with and then you a)don't get puddles because you b)know how often they go. It's worked for us, anyway - we haven't had wet floor or knickers at all since I started last Saturday.

We have a poo problem. We were out for 5 hours today, during which time she wore knickers and used the potette (a worthwhile investment if anyone is interested) but we have had two poos in pants today and one yesterday. 2 of those 3 were during breakfast time, as in whilst actually at the table eating. One was a (TMI alert) huge, runny poo that went all over her knickers, jeans and the hard (thank God) floor and required a bath. So what do I do about this? We've had a big chat about poos in the potty but whether she gets it.

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funtimewincies · 27/06/2009 19:35

Jammy - sounds like a good plan and it'll make the car a lot less stressful for you both.

Welcome cyphercat - your dd sounds like my ds was a few weeks ago !

Well, we're back on form today. Only 2 accidents at the end of the day. This is the time when he's tired and I take my eye off the ball in order to make tea. I'm now convinced that some of the 'accidents' at Grandma's weren't . Might brave a trip to the park without pullups tomorrow...watch this space!

peanutpie · 27/06/2009 22:49

Hi all,
Glad it's going well with the pottete notevenamousie. Things are going OK here with wee but we are also having problems with poo.

The good bits are that we have had no wee accidents for 2 days and he's been in pants for about 5 days (as opposed to bare bums)! We have also been going out and he's been weeing into the pottete. I've managed to get him to wee before we go out and then I take him to the toilet with me and he goes on the pottete. He's also seems to be asking to do a wee on the potty at times like when he has his nappy on before nap and bedtimes. I reckon he realises he can spin it out before he has to get in bed!

Poo is going a bit more slowly. He hasn't been in the potty for the last few days. He attempts to sit on the pot but then ends up running round the house & squatting down somewhere. I think he just hasn't got the sensation sorted yet. I realised I got p**sed off with him about it last night so I'm having to chill out. I read something in a book about just treating it like they've put their arm in the wrong sleeve or something. So I'm trying that. I also think that it's worse when he wants to poo at the end of the day when he is more tired. There's been no poo today so I'm hoping for an morning one tomorrow!

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AnyoneForPimms · 28/06/2009 14:20

I have had to give up as yesterday she had v.bad sickness and diahoria (?)Bless her.

Will try again next Friday when hopefully she will be better.

I will still watch and learn

fatslag · 28/06/2009 14:32

Can I join? DS2 is only just 2 but has excellent bladder control, can point to the potty and say "Pee-pee". However, he hates sitting on the potty and has never yet managed to do anything on it. I leave him bare bummed in the arvo and he pees on the floor. Pb is that I'm not too consistent about taking the nappy off because when we are all upstairs (where the playroom is)- there is carpet!!

So bare bum in the arvo on the floating floor and the tiles, but nappies upstairs due to carpet... I'm not making it easy for him, am I?

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notevenamousie · 28/06/2009 20:30

Hello everyone

I am FUMING. XP stripped my dry-for-5-days-and-1-night (!!) in the back of his girlfriends car at Manchester airport today and put a nappy on her because it was "inconvenient". Dry for a whole day out yesterday, a 3+ hour journey (using the pottette), and just like that, stripped off for all to see in the car boot. I really feel like I let her down. Poor, confused, little girl.

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notevenamousie · 28/06/2009 20:32

should be " dd " between the (!!) and in the back

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peanutpie · 29/06/2009 09:35

Hi fatslag - how did potty training go the last time you did it?

Notevenamousie - That's really soul destroying about your XP! All that work your lo has put in. When does she get back?

Waited in all day for a poo yesterday and it went on the patio and then he trod in it yuk! At least it was better that the poo he did on Thursday evening which I managed to kneel in....

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notevenamousie · 29/06/2009 11:45

Oh no, peanut pie!
I am calming down about it now.

It does sound a bit frustrating, fatslag - but there's no rules about how fast you have to train him. There's another thread around that suggests some very thim reusables that are good for not ruining carpets, would they work. Fortunately we have hard floor - very clean no after I have washed it in detergent after every accident!

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fatslag · 29/06/2009 13:01

Noteven - my you're good, I do a quick wipe with kitchen paper!

Peanut - ds1 was a lot older (2.10) when we decided to do it. We were travelling a lot and I didn't want to do transatlantic flights with a barely potty trained toddler. Then we used a "method" (potty training in a day, if memory serves me). Took about a week for him to get it. But I don't want to do that again because it was a bit too "in yer face" and intense. I would really like ds2 just to get it naturally

Incidentally, treading in poo happens to me all the time because even when ds2 is wearing a nappy, he does little poo balls (he doesn't eat anything except pain au chocolat) that roll out of the nappy every time I take it off. Since I am such a crappy housewife, I can find them WEEKS later!

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notevenamousie · 29/06/2009 15:31

I meant poo accidents, I have been lucky in that wee haven't had any wee accidents since we started (I am too)

I think I've done a bit of a "method" - but dd is a bit of an all-or-nothing personality. So maybe it depends on the child as well as parents. DD's dolly sat on the potty a long time before she ever did. Would something like that help?

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peanutpie · 29/06/2009 16:15

Fatslag - that's helpful for me about you wanting to be a bit more relaxed with DS2 and starting earlier. Especially cos everyone I know seems keen to do it later and then quickly! My son is 2y & 4 mo most of my friends got their boys trained much nearer 3 so I've been worrying 'I'm going against the flow'.

Good news today is that he said he needed a wee during a playgroup, rather than me having to take him before he says anything. This is the first time this has happened out of the house! It makes up for all the poo I'm scooping off the carpet at the moment.

funtimewincies · 29/06/2009 19:31

Sounds like a mixed bag this week, how annoying about your XP notevenamousie!

We've had a couple of really good days, with ds willing to use the potty and us catching most of the wees and all the poos. I'm hoping that at some point he'll start asking to go, but at the moment he's holding it in until we sit on the potty. First outing with the Potette today, which he thinks is fab .

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notevenamousie · 30/06/2009 12:34

I'm calmer about it now. I can't win with him. And I know^ I've done the best by her.

I hope you are having good days, and days out (ftw). I was also so pleased to here the immortal line "I need to do a wee wee", pp. How's everyone else??

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funtimewincies · 30/06/2009 14:07

I'm living for day that ds says that he wants to go .

For now, mostly dry pants and being able to hold on until mummy suggests the potty will do!

peanutpie · 30/06/2009 18:05

We've had mainly dry pants today and lots of wee requests. I also realise that we've had a milestone of a full week in pants!

Unfortunately he also pooed his pants today. Oh well, it will seem funny when he's 18.

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notevenamousie · 30/06/2009 18:50

Did you throw the pants away? We had one accident so bad I just had to. And I've done cloth nappies for 18 months but this was different!!!

It's all sounding good!

We're staying with my aunt at the weekend - who is lovely but has a beautiful, fairly new, turquoise carpet. You can feel it's expensive beneath your feet, IYKWIM. I. Will. Not. Transmit. My. Fear. To. DD.

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funtimewincies · 30/06/2009 19:46

Wow, that sounds a bad one notevenamousie. I'm also used to sluicing cloth nappies in the loo so I get some idea of how horrific it must have been for them to have been binned.

When ds was a newborn we had one explosion which resulted in me having to cut his vest off rather than attempt to get it over his head and have to bath him at 3am - ewww!

Ds was completely dry today. He's not asking to go but can hold on until we get to the potty.

funtimewincies · 30/06/2009 19:47

A turquoise carpet just sounds plain wrong, by the way, may be your dd would be doing her a favour .

peanutpie · 30/06/2009 20:26

The pants survived to tell the tale this time. I threw a pair away last week.

How is poo going with your little ones? FTW -does your ds just do one while he sits on the potty one of the times?

Someone else's new carpet sends a slight shiver down my spine at the moment.

fatslag · 01/07/2009 12:59

I've sort of given up. ds2 shows absolutely no sign at all of worrying about peeing on the floor, he just does it. I scoop him up lovingly and say "no, sweetie, on the potty for pp" but it makes no difference. The other day I let him go upstairs with no pants on because I had to pee. I showed him what I was doing and the potty by the loo door. He went into the play room and peed on the carpet in front of the toy box (fortunately, not IN the toy box, but it was a close thing).

I have a feeling I'm fooling myself and that he just isn't ready. What do you think?

peanutpie · 01/07/2009 14:41

Hi fatslag,
He sounds interested in wees & potties so has probably been worth seeing what he would do without his nappy on.

I can only speak for what we've done with our son. That is we've been talking about toilets & (watching other kids & us wee & poo !) for ages and after a while we got into a habit of him doing a stand up wee in the potty when he got in the bath. This has been probably going on for about 3 months. Then recently in the hot weather we've taken his nappy off and I realised that he said 'there's a wee coming' and a few times we caught it in the potty. That's the main thing that made me start training, that and the fact he did a poo in the potty a few weeks ago.

So I guess it has probably been 4 months or so since the first wee to actual training.

My neighbour has a nearly 2 year old and she said that he's got started trying out the potty at bedtime as his 3 1/2 yr old sister has started training him by showing him what to do! Could your first son get him interested?

I hope that's helpful. I feel pretty inexperienced myself - and we stil haven't got poo sorted!!

fatslag · 01/07/2009 19:35

Unfortunately ds1 has just discovered prudishness and wants the door shut to do his business. Sigh.... what happened to the little monster who careered round the house starkers screaming "Look at my willy!"

funtimewincies · 01/07/2009 19:41

fatslag.

Ds had also just discovered his willy. He's never really been bothered by it, but now it's in pants and more easily accessible he's making up for lost time .

2nd day dry today, inlcuding a trip to the library on the bus. Dare I hope ?

PottyPotty · 02/07/2009 10:27

Can I join in too?

This whole potty training thing is sooo hard, it's good to be here!

DD (darling daughter? I'm new to this) has been pants on and happily peeing in a potty at home but won't pee at nursery (tantrums on the suggestion of going near the potty) and won't poo anywhere (except when she can't hold it in any more and does it in her pants crying)

She's getting really stressed about the whole thing and her behaviour's getting worse. We're trying to stay calm & positive but I'm struggling and had to leave the room so I didn't swear at her this morning after the 20th non-poo visit to the potty when I know she needs to go. Aaaaagh! Had to leave her at nursery screaming, it was so horrid, I cried all the way home.