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Potty training

Is your child ready for potty training at nursery? Here's the place for all your toilet training questions.

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DD (3) started finally to use the potty (a bit) - what next

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cheapFlower · 08/02/2011 12:03

hello,

after many, many failed attempts to get DD to sit/use the potty, I had another go at the toilet training yesterday. wasn't hopeful at all but all of the sudden, she sat on her potty 5-6 time during the day and actually and did a wee - woohoo. I rewarded this with chocolate each time :-) but she needs prompting and doesn't do it on her own (yet).

just wondered how I should move on from here. we put the nappy on at night (I am not fuzzing about getting her out of nappies at night)and also today (she goes to nursery 2 full days).

how long to you wait until you dare to leave the house without nappies etc?

she has been so slow to respond to her toilet training so I am totally over the moon that we seem to get somewhere at last but I don't know how quick to step things up... wouldn't want to do anything that might backfire.

TIA

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TootaLaFruit · 22/02/2011 09:14

bump for advice - I'm dreading leaving the house too. And should I send DD to nursery in nappies, but ask them to put her on the potty... or in pants? It's such a minefield. cheapFlower how are things going with your DD?
9Mine has been up since 6:45am and has not even done a wee so far.... I think she's holding it in She's drunk loads too

kreecherlivesupstairs · 22/02/2011 09:17

DD picked it up really quickly [proud], I just decided that we had to leave the house without a nappy and chose the day.
She and I did a countdown to it, got some lovely new knickers and went for it. We did have a couple of accidents, but always had a bag of clothes to change into.
It was much simpler for us though, we were living in Bangkok so her clothes were lighter and much easier to change than yours proabably are now.

TootaLaFruit · 22/02/2011 09:31

kreecher - how old was your DD? Mine is 2.4 and we're on day 2. Yesterday the first two wees were in the potty then the other 4 were on the floor
Today... still nada

TootaLaFruit · 22/02/2011 09:31

And did she just 'know' that her knickers weren't a new 'nappy'? DD doesn't seem to care if hers get wet.

kreecherlivesupstairs · 23/02/2011 05:23

DD was, I think about 2.8. She had to be dry to start school so that was a huge push. She really wanted to go to school. As we were in Thailand, we had wooden easily moppable floors and she adored her hello kitty knickers and didn't want to make the poor cat wet.
I think we were really lucky, we (or rather I) managed to catch her at the optimum time.

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cheapFlower · 23/02/2011 09:55

though this thread had died ;-)

we are now in week 3 and DD is using the potty without prompting.

but it only works when she isn't wearing anything around her bottom. as soon as I put something (underwear etc) on she seems to think she is in nappies and wets herself...

we also tried to leave the house without nappies and end up wet everytime :(

any ideas how to go about this? or will I just need to be patient?

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Sopster · 26/02/2011 13:19

Hiya, have you tried using a reward chart with her and rewarding her for every successful dry trip out? Maybe just do short trips at first and build it up? (we used one called the my big star chart from encourageandpraise.co.uk which was brilliant). I would keep her in underwaer all the time too and not mix and match with nappies as that might confuse her. Hopefully she'll start to realise she doesn't like being wet after a few days!! Good luck x

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cheapFlower · 26/02/2011 20:05

we are not using a chart but reward with tiny amounts of chocolate. occasionally I find DD on the potty, just squeezing out the last bit of wee in exchange for the sweet stuff.

guess you are right - using nothing, then nappies and sometimes only underwear must be confusing. should maybe stick to underwear at home.

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GelflinGirl · 26/02/2011 20:14

potty training DS2 (2.1) at mo, started (two weeks ago now) with no nappy and nothing on bottom half. Kept reminding him to wee on potty and now i dont need to tell him any more. Went out for the first time the other day, put a pull up on him and told him not to wee or poo in it and to tell me if he needs to go. He did and it was dry at the end of the day. Been out alot since and hes doing amazing. Just need to teach him to go on the toilet (hes scared hes going to fall down it lol) and to wear big boy pants and were done Think he should be totally dry and in pants within a month.

simpson · 26/02/2011 20:54

I potty trained my 3yr old DD this week (halfterm) and also found she was trying to squeeze a few drops out to get chocolate

TBH I would put her in knickers and keep them on iyswim so she knows the feeling when she is wet.

We also used a sticker chart which was a big hit.

It only took 3 days I was convinced it would be harder

GelflinGirl · 27/02/2011 21:01

Just to say we are using stickers as a reward too very good!

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