My DD is 2 years 7 months and today was day 5 of potty training. By the end of day 3 she was starting to look for the potty when she needed a wee but not quite getting there in time (even when I tried to help her.) However on day 4 I had to help her by noticing the “wee dance” and telling her that she needed to go. She managed to hold in a big wee at the park on day 4 (by which time we were all insane at being in the house so long!) and do it in the potty when I asked.
Today she has been at the childminder’s. She managed 3 wees when prompted but had 3/4 accidents when she didn’t even attempt to seek out the potty. Childminder seems to prompt every half hour or so. I should say that today she is absolutely knackered having slept appallingly and she has a cold. Also the childminder has lots of kids at her house, it is a busy and fun place and DD gets swept along in whatever is going on. She doesn’t always have time to “watch the crotch” like I have been doing the past few days!
I just want to find out what’s normal or not really? Should DD be telling us by now that she needs a wee? Is this all part of the process? We desperately don’t want to stop now. And even if we did I think DD would resist. She is very strong willed and just had a massive meltdown about putting a Pull Up on at night (maybe we should have gone with this and put her in pants but we have a ten week old too 😬 also pull ups are soaking in the morning!)
Sorry for long post, just really trying to get a sense of what is normal and whether we are on the right track!
Poos seem to be OK so far but she’s only had two!