DD appears to be a camel - advice?

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DD is 3 next month, I have been putting off potty training due to nightmare pg and new baby, but DS is now 10 weeks so thought we'd give it a go. Today is day 1, she wasn't overly confident that she could do weeing and pooing in the potty, told me she didn't know how, but has done it successfully a few times before at nursery, she has been in pull-ups for a couple of months, because she sometimes asks to go to the toilet, especially at nursery.

Anyway she was put in knickers at about 8am and by 1.30 still hadn't had a wee! She is now napping in pull-ups, so I imagine she has now had a wee. She did sit on the potty and try a couple of times to wee but couldn't.

Do I perservere? I'm worried she will make herself ill

Just marking my place as I'm having a similar issue with DS. He's nearly 3 and we're having our first go at potty training. The first couple of days he had a fair few accidents but now appears to have worked out how to hold it. However, he's not keen on using the potty or toilet so he's holding it, then letting fly in the bath or when he gets a nappy on for nap or bed time.

I've just bought him a new Thomas potty as he said that the other ones I had hurt his bottom.

I'm willing to persevere for now as, I think, if he can hold it, he just needs to learn how to "let go" on the potty and we'll be there.

Quick bump for any evening crowd wisdom

It's early days. For what it's worth, my dd held on for about 8 hours in the week I trained her. She must have been bursting! No ill effects.

Oooh my DD did that for ages. They just hold on for what seems like days.

The trick is to give them a lot to drink - particularly very cold drinks - they drink more if it's cold and it has ice in - don't know why, seems to be a toddler thing. They will then need to go to the loo more and also trains the bladder to increase capacity so you win on both sides.

Oh and they grow out of it eventually too! :)