I've just become serious about training my two and a half year old girl. Before this, she's had the odd half a day without a nappy OR when I can see she's having a pee or a poo, I have on occasion taken her nappy off and put her on the potty.
Now I'm trying it properly with no nappy at all. We are on day three of no nappy during the day.
She keeps holding in her pee for a really really long time. Yesterday all day really. She eventually went on the floor and I picked her up mid stream and put her on the potty and gently told her, we do pee pee in the potty. I then praised her for doing so. She cried a bit and didn't want to.
Today she's been holding on to her pee again. She starts crying and touching herself down there and fidgeting. So I remind her to go on the potty or sometimes take her there and she starts crying and refuses.
Earlier it got so bad that she was leaking and holding on to it so much. So I put her on the potty and she was crying again. I was reassuring her. A little bit of pee went in because she could not hold it. I praised her and we went together to empty the potty in the toilet. She likes this part and she loves flushing.
I knew she wasn't finished so I tried sitting her on the toilet and she again was crying. I then put her on the potty again, she cried and didn't want to sit. Then she peed herself while standing up and was crying. I reassured her and put her on the potty again. But by this time she had finished. She cried and told me she was all wet. She clearly didn't like being all wet. I reassured her and dried her and told her she's doing really really well and I'm proud of her.
Is this actually normal ?
It's like she doesn't want to do it at all. I'm afraid a few times when she had her nappy off in the past and wet herself my mum may have scolded her a bit, but I'm not sure.