Hello. I have spent the last week potty training my 2.5yo dd.
We had a big build up (she chose her knickers, and we had chats about when she wouldn't wear a nappy any more but could just wear knickers, she sat on the potty a few times, and on the toilet seat) and she was quite happy with the theory! Come to put it into practice, and for the first couple of days we have the expected accidents but she got the hang of weeing in the potty really quickly. If she's got nothing on her lower half she can take herself to the potty, and if she's wearing trousers or something she appears clutching herself and yells 'Oh no my bottom Mummy' - we will work on getting her to say 'I need a wee' next week!
However, she just poos wherever she is, and whatever she's wearing. She does tend towards the runs (GP says it's just an immature bowel and she'll grow out of it) and I know this will make things tricky. But she isn't even bothered if she poos in her knickers and walks round in it. Her bowel movements are erratic so there's no chance of me sitting her down at the same time each day and getting results - yesterday, she pooed at 10am ish, and that was it for the day. Today, she's dirtied either knickers or the floor three times, with the first one not coming until after lunch.
I don't know what to do. Each time I tell her that she needs to tell me next time and we'll see if we can get it in the potty, I ask her regularly if she needs to go, but we're just not getting anywhere. She had two showers today because it was all down her legs - she's got the wees sorted so putting her back in nappies would be a major backwards step but I can't take her out in case she poos herself - it is not easy and discrete to clean up. If she showed some concern that she was dirty I'd be happier as I'd feel we had a starting point, but she doesn't seem to care. Hates being wet and comes to me crying to have clean trousers, but dirty - not an issue.
Any ideas?