DS 2.5 - would you potty train in this situation?

[OhRosalind]

DS is 2.5. He was poorly and dr asked for a urine sample. It’s taken us a couple of stressful days (crying for nappy etc) but he finally weed on the potty this morning. He was proud but wants to have a nappy back on.

We tried in Feb but he was withholding and we decided it was too soon. He starts preschool in mid September and is supposed to be trained for that (not in U.K.) so we really need to try this summer. This is a period with lots of change, we are moving house and DS seems anxious so I’d been planning on leaving it a few weeks into our new routine before trying again.

However, having finally got him to relax enough to wee in the potty (he was holding it in but after a LONG time blowing bubbles, singing etc he managed to release with no fuss) I’m wondering if we should push on? The alternative is to leave potties out, keep encouraging him, and even have some naked time (though he will ask for a nappy) but without staying home all day. But I’ve read it’s more confusing to stop start. What would you do?

I wouldn’t be trying to potty train if he is ill or has just over come an illness. Whenever you do start to potty train you will need to stay at home all week. I would leave one potty or more of you have more bathroom and not make an issue of it. When are you moving house? What other changes are happening?

No. Too much drama for him for now. He isn’t happy to potty train so why stress yourself further?

Wait until he’s ready

Ok great thank you, that was my instinct too, we’ll leave the potties accessible and keep encouraging his interest but not push, and hope he has less fear of releasing next time. Ideally I’d leave it for a good while but the nursery school thing means we will have to try again this summer.

I've got a similar situation. My ds is 2.8. He's really good with doing wees in his potty but not poos. He seems to be a bit nervous if doing poos outside of his nappy. So we've gone carefully with this as don't want to cause any psychological hang ups about it. He'll be 3 in September and starting 2 mornings a week at pre school then too. It would be great if we could get him further along in potty training by then. However, I'm due no. 2 in two weeks. We are also moving in less than two weeks. Just typing that made me feel stressed!! It's all totally mad!! So for now, I'm just going to continue as we are with ds. Not push him too much as there are lots of changes happening. We're also doing lots of naked time/partly dressed time with the potty which has worked really well with wees and he seems to be enjoying the achievement of doing it and our praise. I think the summer is a good time for that too.
Good luck with everything x