Hello,
I bought a potty (the mini toilet looking ones) back in December and was hoping to potty train my little one over the holidays.
He refused and would sit on it with his nappy on but not without it. So I left it..and tried every month but still the same.
I asked nursery and they said to leave it so he doesn’t regress.
I asked the health visitor last month and she said take away his nappies and see what happens.
Yesterday I told him there is no more nappies and he happily put on his big boy pants. I thought, great! However I soon realised that he just thought they were nappies too. He had an accident and he told me he was wet. I said okay, next time do it in the potty. He had another accident, I said next time in the potty please you don’t want your clothes to get wet. He then took off his trousers and wouldn’t wear them in case they got wet.
However he then would still not wee in the potty and got really upset and clung on to me all day. He kept his wee in and held on to his willie and withdrew himself. He just sat on the sofa and wouldn’t play. As soon as I put on his nighttime nappy, he was back to his happy self and did a poo. He obviously was also keeping the poo in.
This morning, I tried again and he refused to play and told me he needed to poo but no to the potty. He wanted to wear a nappy. He’s even refusing to wear pull ups, which he used to be happy to wear.
He is being really stubborn and I feel like this is going to be hard work.
He’s also really shy about doing a poo and would always do it somewhere. He’s fully aware in my opinion so I don’t think it’s because he’s not ready…he just doesn’t want to do it anywhere other than his nappy.
Is there anything else I can buy to help me?
What do I do?
Nurses have told me that all his friends are potty training and feel under pressure now 
He was great transitioning to full fat milk, teat to no teat bottle etc.
I feel like a failure.