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Is your child ready for potty training at nursery? Here's the place for all your toilet training questions.

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So, who else is starting on Saturday?

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ItsAllTLAsToMe · 09/05/2013 20:48

We're going to start potty training DS (2.8) on Saturday. Is anyone else starting then too?

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Jollyb · 26/05/2013 17:23

I think we're going to give up. DD has no interest whatsoever. Crying at the idea of sitting on the potty. We've had so many accidents today, both wees and poos.

I'm a little surprised as she's quite advanced in other ways - ie good at dressing herself. She also hates getting dirty so I thought she 'd be keen to avoid wet knickers - quite the opposite!!

Glad everyone else has had a better day

WhispersOfWickedness · 26/05/2013 18:26

That sounds like the right thing to do, Jolly, it's not worth either of you being upset over Thanks

One poo accident here. Still a lot better than yesterday, and a lot unprompted today, so that's good Smile

TheScreamingfrog · 26/05/2013 18:52

I think you are right about us taking our eye off the ball causing accidents. Certainly the case here - I think asking more frequently keeps it top of their minds. We are generally fine with wee but poos do not seem to register with her at the mo. They have been soft recently so perhaps that explains it following a great start....

Jollyb · 26/05/2013 21:37

Quite randomly DD did an unprompted wee on the potty shortly before bedtime this evening. She had taken off her nappy. . 5 minutes later she was back sitting on the potty and did a poo. Not sure what's going on . .

As an aside how gross is cleaning out a 'soiled' potty. I made a complete hash out of it - any tips?

mikkii · 26/05/2013 21:41

I've been lying a bit low this week, sorry just madly busy with work. We've had a fantastic weekend, no accidents yesterday, all wees on the toilet, including her asking. Yesterday we went to a party, I nearly bottled out and put her in pull ups but she was having one of it. A wee before we went, 20 minutes walk there in the pushchair and then on a bouncy castle (I was pretty concerned about that!) she even came and found me to take her for a wee.

Today I braved church with pants on, although she did ask for a wee partway through (she didn't do one), having said that DS also went out for a wee!

This afternoon she ran upstairs to find me to put her on the potty for a poo! This feels like real progress. Unfortunately a wee accident before bed.

On another note DH has decided he wants to replace the carpet, I'm going to try to get him to wait till the accidents have decreased.

Jolly, if he's really unhappy, go back to nappies and try in a month. With DD1, we tried, she had a disastrous day and demanded her nappy back. We waited a month, tried again on holiday and all was well.

It sounds like a bit of a mixed bag this week.

mikkii · 26/05/2013 21:45

Cleaning out a potty, yes definitely a Hmm job.

I tend to upend into toilet and hope most of it comes out, then dettox spray and wipe with toilet paper.

Remember that most wipes aren't flushable.

I try to get her using the toilet as it is less cleaning! I'm slovenly at heart Grin

WhispersOfWickedness · 26/05/2013 22:10

Well done mikkii, that sounds like great progress Smile

Thankfully, dd is not too keen on the potty, so we have been mainly using the toilet, so haven't had too many poos to clean out of potties!

WhispersOfWickedness · 26/05/2013 22:11

Sorry, missed your post Jolly, that sounds great too, considering the difficult days you've had! Perhaps give it another day and then see where she is?

WhispersOfWickedness · 27/05/2013 19:21

Well, we had a brilliant day today until 5.50pm and then she has two wee accidents within half an hour Confused Overall a good day though, especially as we were out most of the day and most of the toilet trips were unprompted Grin
Hope everyone else is getting on ok Smile

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WhispersOfWickedness · 28/05/2013 19:37

Confused Wonder what that was all about!

Anyway, today we had a reverse day to yesterday, two accidents early on and then no more for the rest of the day! All unprompted, including two unprompted poos Grin

Hope everyone else is getting on ok, I seem to be chatting to myself these days Grin

motherofvikings · 28/05/2013 20:01

Hi whispers! :)

Dd is continuing to do pretty well here. She's had a few accidents today but that's because we (the adults in the house) got a bit complacent and stopped asking her. Much like everyone else's potty regression the other day! :)

She has managed poos on the potty today and yesterday which was good but she did need prompting.

I think dd is still pretty little though (2.1yo) so I'm happy to be a bit more involved for now...

Glad all is going well with your dd whispers. :)

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ItsAllTLAsToMe · 28/05/2013 20:11

Hi everyone Smile. We're still doing okay - still not as well as the first week or two, so I'm feeling a bit discouraged. I wonder if different approaches at home and the CM's is contributing.

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WhispersOfWickedness · 28/05/2013 20:58

Mother - yes, I do have to remind myself that my DD is still young for all this, so I definitely know where you're coming from! (DD is 21 months). I think she's currently at about the same stage as DS was at about 2.9yo Confused

Its - do you think he's just lost a bit of interest? I think it can be quite exciting for them in the beginning, and then even though they have the control etc, they realise it is a bit of a PITA to have to think about going to the toilet all the time! How are the approaches different between home and the CM? Is there any way you could make them more similar if that's what you think it is?

TheScreamingfrog · 29/05/2013 18:14

Hi Everyone,
We are doing great with wees but poos - yick... No luck at all! Any suggestions?

It's, my CM has told DD that she will get her some special knickers if she poos in the potty. Fingers crossed! We are reinforcing this at home.

WhispersOfWickedness · 29/05/2013 19:39

Good day today, only one accident, at about 6pm this evening, and the vast majority were unprompted Grin

Frog - I'm not sure, can you work out what the problem is? Will she sit on the toilet/potty to try for a poo or does she not want to do that? Has she ever done one on the toilet/potty? Does she know when she is doing it, or not notice?

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ItsAllTLAsToMe · 30/05/2013 08:12

Whispers, I think you're exactly right - the novelty has worn off, so now he doesn't want to go to the potty if he's busy playing etc. The difference between home and the CM's is that the CM asks him if he'd like to go quite often as she has to go on school runs etc, whereas we were able to stop doing that after a few days. Apparently he's never (?) done an unprompted wee there, whereas he's done lots here. But we're getting worse, not better here now. Ack.

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WhispersOfWickedness · 30/05/2013 08:25

Its, I think I would just start asking him again in that case. We had similar with DS, fine if you took him, not fine if you left him to it, so we just asked and took him for a couple of months until he suddenly yearned for a bit of control and it very quickly changed to him always telling me when he needed to go.

camilasuenos · 30/05/2013 13:34

in my experience, the best is to leave him naked 3 days,,,not preasuring him to go...then 3 days after, he will have understood his body and then you can start inviting him to the toilet...also check some potty training apps..they were very usefull for my little one..and i only let play them while she was sitting over in the toilet...there is a very special calld potty animals..its very motivational!!

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ItsAllTLAsToMe · 30/05/2013 13:49

Whispers, yes, we ask him now - when he clearly needs to go(!) - but he gets grumpy, says No, then has an accident 5mins later Confused.

camila, thanks, I'll check out some apps Smile.

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WhispersOfWickedness · 30/05/2013 19:00

Hmm, tricky Confused Sometimes if DS was being a bit resistant, I would say that he needed to try, it didn't matter if there was no wee/poo there as long as he tried. This seemed to work as it took the pressure off him 'performing' but once he was on the loo, he would realise he did need it after all Smile I've never used them, but what about reward charts?

We had a good day, just one accident, all unprompted Grin And I think that one was because we have got friends staying tonight, so she got a bit distracted by the excitement Smile

motherofvikings · 31/05/2013 07:16

It's - what about sitting on the loo/ potty together?
Dd still needs telling about poos (don't trust her to do unprompted poop yet). She will sometimes only do this if me/ ds/ DH go too! Hmm. Thankfully ds is happy to oblige and will sing to her while she poops! Shock

Dd is doing well here. One accident on Wednesday, none yesterday and in that time we went to sainsburys, ikea and the park. :)

WhispersOfWickedness · 31/05/2013 19:09

Sounds like she is really getting there, mother Grin

Doing well here too, no accidents all day and no prompting Grin

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ItsAllTLAsToMe · 01/06/2013 09:11

Thanks for the ideas everyone, we're trying a variety of them Smile. DS had a dry nappy this morning, and got the potty himself to have a big wee!

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WhispersOfWickedness · 01/06/2013 21:26

Brilliant, its!

We went to a wedding today. No wee accidents, but one poo accident, eek! Bit of a shame as it's the first one in over a week, thankfully it just required a change of pants and not a whole outfit change!!

Next challenge is when we go on holiday a week today! Two long car drives and a plane ride Confused