This is an okay start, right?

[recreationalcalpol]

Need some reassurance that we are going in the right direction.

Ds is 27months, we are on day 4 of potty training. He’s in trousers but no pants at the moment. He was dry when he woke up this morning, and today we’ve had no wee accidents at all, despite going out for a few short walks. He’s probably going at least a couple of hours between wees, so pretty good bladder control developing there hopefully. Poo is a mixed bag. He’s managed a small amount of poo on the potty but we spent a lot of the afternoon with him telling me that poo was coming but not producing the goods. In the end, he pooed at lightening speed with no warning on top of the closed loo seat

But, this is all positive stuff right? I mean, he’s making good progress? Any tips on how to encourage the poo?

Yes, all positive. I’d get him into pants sooner rather than later though or he might decide he never wants to wear them!

Poo always takes longer. I’d focus on wee which it sounds like he’s doing well with.

When you say he woke up dry, are you attempting day and night time dryness at the same time? Because night time dryness is completely different- it’s hormonal and you can’t train for it. I’d be tempted to stick to daytime dryness only as if he wets at night (look up night time dryness hormones- they can’t be dry until the hormone that suppresses their wee at night has developed) it might leave him disheartened.

Thanks! No, he was in a nappy overnight but it happened to be dry when he woke up and he had a wee on the toilet first thing. I’ve no notions of toilet training at night yet!

We used to use night time nappies like pants once we’d potty trained, so encourage them to have a wee last thing and then put the nappy on and whip it off first thing in the morning and try for a wee.

Anyway, like I said it sounds like you’ve made a brilliant start! I resorted to pure bribery in the end with DD1 for poos 🤷🏻‍♀️

Also, even if the loo seat was closed I’d say that fact he pooed vaguely in vicinity of the loo was good progress!!

I trained all ofy 3 children in the summer as douch easier to ship a pair of shorts down and a lot of time spent outside so few accidents in the house. Sounds like your son is doing well though. My dd was dry day and night at the same time.

Thanks all. I needed that! He woke up at 3am last night because he needed a wee, even though he was wearing a nappy, so we’re all a bit tired this morning!

@recreationalcalpol that’s amazing that he woke at that age knowing he needed to wee! Well done him!