My DD2 was showing all the sign of being ready for potty training, so out came the potty and she was consistently doing all her wee's in the potty, poo's were another matter, one on my foot and another under the table, but such is life.........
about a month ago she came down with a UTI, cue hysterical screaming on weeing, still in the potty though, although frequently and clearly with pain, she had antibiotics and vast quanities of cranbury juice, UTI went away. since then she started refusing point blank to use the potty or the toilet (with and without a child seat on it) we have had numerous accidents....... in fact not a single wee in the potty.
following advice from my health visitor I put her in nappies again (she's 26 months old) she hates them, takes them off herself the minute they are wet or soiled (this in itself is great as it entertains her younger brother who takes the opertunity to utilise the contents for making art on my kitchen cupboard door this morning, when I turned my back to make a cup of tea), she tells you when she needs a wee or has done one but refuses point blank to the point of becoming hysterical to sit on the potty or toilet. She tells you she doesn't like nappies, she wants to wear her big girl pants, but the minute she feels the need to wee, she starts getting distressed and demanding a nappy, she even gets out the changing mat and the nappy, I suspect if she could manage it she would try putting it on as well. Once its on she immediately wee's or poo's then wants it off again and big girl pants back on.
Prior to the UTI she would happily sit on the potty and read a book with me, now she won't go anywhere near it and gets hysterical if you even suggest it, believe me I've tried everything at this point, even chocolate button bribary, special sitting on the potty toys and books, sticker charts, nothing is working.
I am wondering if she now associates the potty with painful weeing? we have 2 potties but they are identically, would I be wasting my time and money buying another potty that looks completely different in the hope she might be prepared to use it? does anyone have any suggestions at all, I'm really at the end of my teather now, the cupboard poo painting incident this morning actually reduced me to tears.
My DD1 was a dream to train where am I going wrong???