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Potty Training During Lockdown!

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LunaHardy · 22/03/2020 11:22

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?

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Caita · 08/06/2020 12:14

So our dd is almost 3.5.
When she was 2.5 we started potty training and she was doing fantastic, up until end of November when we all got sick, she ended up constipated, ever since she has been holding in her poo, won't use the potty at all, we got training seats for the toilet, she won't use them either. She should be starting nursery but I'm reluctant because of this issue, she has little bits of poo come out constantly and always smells like poo, needs changing several times per day. She gets so upset if we even suggest using the potty. We have tried telling her there's no more nappies left and had her to naked, she has a potty in each room, I ask her if she needs to a pee she will say no and then a few minutes later pee's on the floor, if we use pants she will pee them and not be bothered about it.
Help!

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peanutandpumkin · 10/06/2020 15:03

So DS is on pants at home.. 60% prompting and 40% going on his own. We have at least one accident per day. No more dribbles though!

I think its been nearly a month 🤷🏽‍♀️ i got so used to him sitting in toilet for poo(spot on all the time) and cleaning up wee accidents it doesn't sound so bad with regards to all the clean up. He's on pull ups at night. Its nice to be around my non-nappy 3 yr old.

Is it a long shot that i prefer cleaning up than deal with dirty nappy? I feel we are getting there but super slow but i am still having to prompt him most of the time

Hellohello2020 · 11/06/2020 22:02

Hi. My daughter is doing okay. Started new childminder and has had 4 day sessions 6-7 hours, no accidents at childminder and one wee during the session, no poos. However today she went the whole time till 3 no pottying or accidents! Not sure whether to be impressed with her bladder control or cocered about possible lack of drinking or medical issues from holding! Also doing night time pottying and putting her on the potty when she's asleep for a dream wee when we go to bed! Anyone done this, it's weird, useful but so strange that she sleeps deep enough to wee with her eyes closed then straight back to bed! We're having a couple of accidents a week, mostly poos.

peanutandpumkin · 12/06/2020 22:28

@Hellohello2020 so strange till 3? Wow! I font think you can issues with holding she just might had only enough to drink as in comfortable amount to hold if that makes sense? If thats the case and happens again check her next wee if its too yellow shes had too less.

About accidents (sigh!) i think its just taking one day at a time and they wont make anymore 🤷🏽‍♀️ im in the same boat with wee lol so im just sayin what im telling myself

RaeCJ82 · 15/06/2020 23:06

I haven't posted since the start of lockdown when we decided to really encourage the potty training. It was honestly so difficult to get DD ( turned 3 at the end of May) to use the potty and she was having multiple accidents a day. After a couple of weeks I decided that we would just go back to nappies and try again at a later stage. Anyway, a few weeks later she just suddenly decided that she wanted to use the potty and she's been really good ever since. She'll have the occasional accident (always wees) if she's really engrossed in something, but we're on a couple of accidents per week now instead of per day. I just wish I hadn't stressed so much about it at the start of lockdown and I'm glad we took a step back and allowed her to decide when she was ready.

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