Potty Training During Lockdown!

[LunaHardy]

So now seems like a better time than any and I've decided to potty train my 2yo dd during quarantine! I haven't potty trained for about 10 years and that was with my ds. I've bought her a potty a few weeks ago just to get her used to it but she's still not keen on sitting on it. Any tips please?

I agree with advice above that they need to be masters of their own bladders, even if that leads to accidents. And that too much prompting can lead down the stubborn road. We cart our smaller potty everywhere at the mo, took it down the nature reserve this morning, over the fields yesterday and out on the bike the day before! I'm just sharing a pic of our bigger potty here because we're finding it's the preferred vice for poos, possibly due to being a bit raised?

We had a poo in the potty this morning!! It was still fairly traumatic as my DS (2.3m) will hold in a poo as long as he can, and somewhat worryingly seems to be hating pooing anywhere atm. I had to line the potty with a nappy (we still have taped nappies as well as pull ups) so it did give him the sense of pooing in a nappy but technically a poo in the potty! So I’m celebrating! I’m going to let him keep pooing in a potty with a nappy liner until he’s really comfortable with that and then work on taking it out. Gosh potty training is hard work!

My DS is still not very often going to the potty unprompted and is definitely getting annoyed if I prompt too much so am trying to relax that a bit for him. Not easy though!

We’ve had one wee accident today, where he saw the paddling pool and decided to wee in his trousers (and i suspect he weed whilst playing in the pool, but I have no actually evidence of that!). But then finished up on the potty so still half a win. We’re probably averaging one accident a day, though we have had some days with none. Poos are the problem over here!

Yes, maybe you’re right. I just need to let her have the accidents and hopefully she’ll get it a bit more. I much more confusing than with my boy because he was so much older. He just got it straight away really.

That potty looks like a throne! We’ve not been taking potty out. She’s not had an accident out and we’ll do ‘air potty’ if needed. Where you kind of hold them up from behind their knees to do a wee.

How long have you been doing it @Kle209

@twistyhair it really does look like a throne! It was passed on to us by a friend, I wouldn't have bothered, but it's actually proving pretty good design because the grey plastic insert comes out so it's really easy to clean. Looking forward to toilet already though...

@TwistyHair we started on good Friday, so 13 days.

Well that was funny!

LO took himself to the big toilet, managed to get up on it and pee (without even the insert! Luckily he didn’t fall in, that would have been a disaster!)

Only slight problem being that he was still wearing his paw patrol pants!

@Kle209 ok we’ve only been doing it a week. I’m so bored now.

Lol @fascinated

@twistyhair yes I’m pretty fed up of it too! I keep trying to remind myself that 2 weeks is such a small amount of time in comparison to them having used a nappy their whole lives until now.

It doesn’t really help when you’re going back and forward to the potty 10 times but still no poo... (for the second time today...)

That’s a good way of looking at it @kle

Yes, it’s a big change for them.

How are you guys handling wees on the floor? Like are you ignoring them or saying 'uhoh we don't wee wee on the floor' etc etc. Do you make a fuss about cleaning it up?

@maxmeandbump if we have an accident of any sort we're making it obvious that it's not right but being none judgemental and reassuring eg 'oh dear did you have an accident? Wee is meant to go in the potty isn't it, not the floor. Are you going to do your best to get it in the potty next time?' And we leave it at that.

On that note on the first day we started potty training we did have a hilarious situation where she weed on our floor and then got stroppy about it and insisted on repeatedly running through it and slipping on it. I was upstairs and I came down to see what was going on when I could hear him frantically trying to clean it up whilst stopping her running through it. What fun this potty training is eh

Him being my DH*. The pandemonium was pretty comical

@jannt86 haha it does sound pretty comical!! Yeah that's what I've been doing but he takes absolutely no notice and then I get frustrated!

How's everyone doing today? Feel like it's clicking now - he's taken himself off to the potty for 3 wees and a poo this morning! All bare bum though. Will be commando from now on so expecting things won't be as easy!

It’s ducking annoying! She’s started not wanting to go to the toilet when she’s busy. And then weeing in her leggings. No more self initiating today. I’ve asked her if she wants to go back in nappies. But no. I’m so sick of this now

Well I thought we were on a roll yesterday, after the park mishap. Everything else in the potty, including two poos...

Until dinner time... left her for approx five mins in her booster and she managed to produce the biggest, slimiest and messiest poo I've ever seen... god knows where it came from, she'd already done two in the potty! She obviously didn't like the feeling (who would?) so had wriggled about quite a bit as well... dress binned, lots of scrubbing and dettol wiping off the potty, scraping it off the seat liner I had bought was less fun (refused to chuck it away, only had it two days!!!). So that was fun.

Had all wees in the potty today, trotted off to the park this morning with her potette all set up, she wandered off into the bushes so I seized the opportunity to sit her on it. No wee, too 'squeaky' apparently (think she was talking about the bag rustling). She lasted a good hour, then got home and weed on the potty.

So who knows. Swings and roundabouts...

On another note, what activities have you all been doing with them? We are both bored to tears of our routine of walk in the morning, garden in the afternoon. She has the attention span of a flea as well which doesn't help... I'm spending a small fortune on stuff that amuses her for about two mins before she wanders off... trying to entertain with one eye on the laptop for work is bloody hard!!!

Day 5 I think? Going really well here, to be honest it's been a bit of a breeze (I may regret this comment). Easier than my Dd. Ds is wearing pants today (no trousers) and has progressed to using the toilet, which he's helping himself to when he needs. He's 3 next month, so I'm wondering if I i could actually have trained him earlier, or whether it was in fact a good decision just to wait then whip the nappy away, for an easier ride. Either way I'm really appreciative of the advice I had from this thread that he seemed ready to try!

Lurcher - that’s good. I wouldn’t necessarily assume that waiting makes it easier. The longer you wait the greater the risk that they resist , or nappy is a comfort, or an ingrained habit, or it becomes just a power struggle. I’m also pleased that at this still young age there is no risk of shame or embarrassment.

We seem to be doing ok, too, she says hoping not to tempt fate.... didn’t want to post too much if others struggling. Don’t have advice as such, just perhaps to try not to stress too much. I know that’s very difficult though, as we had a few bad days and I was already worried that I was transmitting my frustration and stress (.. being quite goal-oriented myself normally)

I noticed that he had a good long sleep after that bad day and there definitely seemed to be a step change the next day almost as though he had consolidated it in his brain overnight.

Hoping we don’t go backwards now...

5am poo in nappy over here... After nearly 5 days of holding it! I think the poo in the potty on Saturday was a fluke... Although we never really did see it in the potty 😅

We are definitely hitting resistance now. He can wee on the potty just fine, and he even managed 2 poos on the potty yesterday which I’m hoping was a breakthrough. But OMG the resistance is hard going. He had a 30min tantrum this morning because I took his nappy off. Keeps telling me he doesn’t need the potty even when he clearly does. The novelty seems to have well and truly worn off...

@babycornplease - I’m feeling the same today, like i need to mix things up. This afternoon we’re doing painting outside. I’ve laid a big box flat, and then I’m going to let him explore it (naked - easy to clean!) with paint. It might well be a disaster, but I’m hoping it’ll be fun!

Hey ladies, wondering if someone could help me.
Been potty training my daughter and she's got the hang of weeing on the potty, tells me when she needs to go, moved potty upstairs on toilet and can hold it until we get up there but pooing is a whole different story. She's done poos on the potty no problem but tells me she needs a poo when it's pretty much already coming out, so we have to leg it to the potty as you can imagine lol. Earlier she was in a swimming costume and it was too late. How can I get her to tell me before? I sort of no when she needs a poo because she

Keeps running over to the potty back and forth, she doesn't like sitting on the potty for too long. But earlier there was no signs at all lol any advice welcome.
Thankyou ladies