Sudden regression after relative success - normal?

[festivalwidow]

I hope the answer is yes!
I started potty training DD (2.4) about a month ago and she got the hang of it pretty quickly. She's happy enough on the loo or the potty, can take herself off to the potty and dry herself, and as of last week has been dry at night which was a pleasant surprise.

However, the last few days we've gone from no accidents at all (bar one where we were waiting in a very long queue for a public loo, which was kind of understandable) to having lots of 'little accidents': she'll wet herself slightly, announce she needs the loo and manage to hold the rest in until she gets there. This didn't happen a week ago, where she'd be completely dry once she got to the loo. For some reason this seems to be much worse at home (think four changes of knickers during a day at home versus none on a day out) and on a couple of occasions she didn't seem to realise anything had happened.

She doesn't seem distressed at all and has no issues with using the potty: the only thing she hates is if I remind her to go (usually the response is "I KNOW I don't need the loo!"). Is the regression a normal thing? My washing machine has been lulled into a false sense of security... but I'm not keen to go back to nappies as this would be really confusing for her.

I feel your pain. We are having a similar problem, dd 2.5 seemed to get the hang of potty training quite quickly and was dry after a week, for about 6 weeks and then last week it started to go really wrong. We have had to go back to bribing her to use the potty every hour or so and giving her a button when she does. She also gets stroppy if we try and force her but reading the signals means we know she needs it but she seems to have other priorities- the potty has been mastered and is now boring I guess. I'm impressed ur dd is dry at night, our little one drinks far too much for me to see this ever happening! I'm sorry I don't know what the magic answer is but I wanted to sympathise and will be watching closely to see if you are offered any good advice.

TBH - if there was a way you could not bother with having to interupt what you're doing to go to the toilet - wouldn't you like that! I think they realise that actually, having to actually get up and go to the toilet is a bit of a fag really, compared with just doing it in your nappy wherever you are!
I'm sure praise and reward will conquer in the end!

Both mine had a period of regression a few weeks after cracking it. I gritted my teeth and stuck it out, although didn't always handle it well. Found it even more galling when I knew they could do it than learning in the first place! Hang in there.

I know this is not the answer but this is just the thread I've been looking for. Our little boy (2.1) seems to have completely lost interest in his potty and after a successful day will just give up by tea time and not even mention that he's wet. We tried sticker charts at the weekend but they didn't work - not interested. Massive praise works but not for long. My husband was dead against using chocolate buttons as rewards but we might give that a try to boost ds' interest again. Any other tips?

I hope the answer is yes too! DD is 2.6 and kind of decided herself about 2 months ago now that knickers were the way to go! We are having similar issues all of a sudden though (since last week) and I have found that most of the accidents are happening at home too.

We went out for the day yesterday and she was dry all day, at nursery she rarely has accidents (well not wee accidents anyway) but at home she is wetting 2-3 times a day, sometimes more, it's like she can't be bothered to go. Sometimes it's whole wee, sometimes just a 'leak' and we make it to the loo/potty for the rest. Tonight it was on my lap although I'm not sure if she'd already wet her leggings before sitting on me, but I was seriously not impressed! Am hoping this regression is just a phase too...

Still haven't cracked the pooing, but that's a whole other thread