When is a child considered 'trained' and how many accidents are normal in the first few weeks afterwards?

[muckypupster]

DD is 2.6 years old.

I started potty training last Monday. She's had one wee accident in the last week, which I think is ok.

Poos not going so well but working on that courtesy of poo goes home to pooland.

How many accidents per week/month should I expect at this age, does anyone know?

When they can anticipate and ask for the toilet in advance if out. One accident only is very good but are you taking her or is she going by herself ?

You can consider her 'trained' when she knows she needs a wee or poo, and can hold on until she gets to the loo regularly and reliably.

Children that are dry purely because a parent puts them on the loo every 30-60 minutes isn't really toilet trained, more toilet timed.

All young children have the odd accident especially if they are engrossed in something else, but they should be few and far between really.

It sounds like your DD is doing well

OOh, that's good, thanks.

I stopped asking her on day three of training if she needed to go and she's been asking to go by herself since then.

The problem though, is the poos. She asks to go, sits but is frightened to do one. She'll try that a couple of times, sometimes she'll manage to go. Other times she'll withhold it til she has an accident.

So I don't consider her trained, but I wanted to know when I could!

Some young children are frightened of pooing on a toilet - maybe offer a potty until she is a bit more confident and don't flush until she has left the room. A stepstool to rest her feet on makes it easier to poo.

If she is at all constipated she will be scared of pooing because it hurts so give her plenty of fluids and fibrous foods such as breakfast cereals and veg/fruit.