Put off Potty Training Week?

[QueenSconetta]

I am planning to have a potty training week for DD (2.4).

She has been showing signs of being ready for a good number of months, uses the potty readily (when she feels like it!), is interested in wearing pants and is usually ok if nappyless in the house, but we have never managed to consolidate it.

The PTW was going to be next week, but I am not sure whether to put this off. If she has a pull up on, she generally doesn't come and say if she wants to toilet etc so I am not sure if she is really ready. OTOH I am not sure if I am just chickening out.

If she has pants she is about 70/30 success with either using the potty if her own valition or asking to be taken to the toilet/accidents.

Sorry if this sounds stealt boasty, it really isn't meant to.

I'm not sure if we just need to go cold turkey with big girl pants and have a good run at it?

Any opinions gratefully received.

Sounds like she is ready to give it a try to me. Dd1 was nowhere near as ready as this and learnt fine in a week.

Cold turkey is what you need, swapping backwards and forwards is confusing.

Thank you, think I am just being wussy about it, which is stupid.

I agree pull-ups are a marketting ploy to keep you buying nappies seem to confuse them. With dd1 we tried potty training with mainly pull ups and took about 4 months, and still had to go cold turkey at the end. Night time pull ups took another year. Dd2 went cold turkey from never sitting on potty to dry day + night in 2.5 days. Both were 2.4 yrs when we started.

Went cold turkey with ds (2.6) on sat pm. He has been on the potty a fair bit but had to wait for school holidays. So far have caught all poos phew! and about 80percent wees (but he does go every 30min-hour! The two times he has got confused are when dh put he has just had a nappy on. He even woke up this morning with a much dryer nappy and potty was his first request.

Your dd might not be ready, in which case try for a week or so, but at her age you could happily go back to nappies for another few months and try again if she doesn't get it. Pull-ups on the other hand, in my experience, will probably just prolong it.

Thank you 3duracell. When I say pull up I mean Pampers Easy Ups, we have interchanged them with nappies for a long time when she became the biggest nightmare in the world to change! So I guess for Pull Ups read nappies!

I think I will try it and not chicken out after all, like you say, can always take more time off over the summer.