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

Where to go from here please. What next?

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xxxParisexxx · 28/10/2018 19:35

Hi all bit of background. My little girl is 3 end of Jan. Currently on half term from playschool for one more week. Expecting baby number 2 start of Jan.
She has never been interested in sitting on the potty but has gone from petrified to sitting with clothes and then without a nappy.
Taking it slowly as she gets upset and anxious about new situations, quite a sensitive girl.
This evening I saw her look like she needed a poo. She thought ideal opportunity to sit on potty. Gave her something to watch on my phone and she did a poo on there! Was chuffed as she has never done anything on there no even a wee.
She's gone to bed after tons of praise about being a big girl etc etc.
Where do I go from here in terms of tomorrow? She wears pampers pull up nappies. Havnt a travel potty/trainer pull ups or anything in yet as she didn't seem ready in the slightest.
Would ideally have liked her potty trained before baby number 2 but I have no clue what to do next lol thanks all xx

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sleepismysuperpower1 · 29/10/2018 15:16

personally i would do what you are doing for the next week, (when she looks like she needs the toilet, put her on the potty) then purchase a pair of these which allow the child to feel the wetness, but are absorbent.

whenever she goes to poop in the potty and is successful, give her 2 raisins and let her ring a bell (you can get one off amazon)

if she wees, give her one raisin.

good luck! x

sleepismysuperpower1 · 29/10/2018 15:18

forgot to add, you could also try reading her this book, and then using the reward chart that comes with it link

Emmafh3 · 29/10/2018 19:46

I use chocolate buttons.
My dd has raisins whenever and i would rather not have fruit as a 'treat'

I'd say if she's anxious about new knickers and change that much, then try just putting her on the toilet every 15 minutes or a set time that suits her. Maybe before and after a snack/lunch/naps with the usual nappy.
Then buy some knickers(personally wouldn't go for anything else absorbant as it's no real difference to nappies) and give her the choice to wear them until she wants to and then go full swing no nappies during the day?

bigfishlittlefishtupperwarebox · 29/10/2018 20:16

We've just done potty training with our DD last week. For the first two days she got a chocolate button and two stickers every time she used it (one sticker for her and one for the potty, it's now covered!)

Went straight for no nappies apart from nap/bedtime, just knickers and a dress and the heating on!! She had wees sorted in those two days, then we dropped the chocolate and gave just stickers, and now the stickers have stopped too as we ran out. No accidents since, fingers crossed it continues!!

xxxParisexxx · 30/10/2018 23:49

I tried at home with knickers in the end but failed tremendously. She did no wees and held onto it from 8.30 when I took her nappy off till 1pm when I went into the kitchen to pick up my plate of lunch

She was eating hers on the sofa and I came into her sitting in a huge wee patch not bothered in the slightest. I said have you done a wee and she sed no. I sed u have you are wet, we wee and poo on the toilet. She sed no, nappy on

I don't think she is ready still :( but she is 3 in Jan x

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Emmafh3 · 31/10/2018 22:00

Did you try just putting her/taking her to the toilet instead of waiting for her to let you know?
My dd is still terrible at telling me blatant lies when she's had an accident. And gets anxious about "being told off" so we now don't make a deal about accidents and just go straight to the toilet and sit on it(even if nothing more happens) while I silently curse the stresses of toileting...
I also have to stand outside of the room when she's on the toilet (but peek in to make sure she's not going to topple off and listen for her tinkles) otherwise she holds it in and tells me she's finished and three minutes later has a leak.
Now when daddy is here it's a different story and she's as good as gold.
Maybe your partner can get toilet training going on a weekend?

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