Hi all, this is my first time posting on Mumsnet but I’m really at the end of my tether and having sleepless nights and have the most awful mum guilt, feeling absolutely hopeless and useless.
My 3 and 3 month year old son is just absolutely refusing to use the toilet/potty to do wee or number 2’s. We have tried absolutely everything - various toilet seats, treats, sticker reward charts etc but nothing is working and he is crying his eyes out everytime we sit him on the loo to the point where he’s holding it in for 8 hours at a time and has got severely constipated. This is our third attempt having had a few weeks break in between. My son has full understanding of the toilet, he knows exactly what he has to do, he can identify his body parts, can communicate his needs fully with us and is a bright and funny little boy but this whole potty training saga is just a nightmare. We have tried stories, singing and dancing and he will have one good day where he does wee on the toilet and then that’s it, after that just refuses and cries to get off.
Does anyone have any advice or ideas on how I can get him going or what I could try? I am really feeling so stressed out about this and feel like I am a failure of a mum as his nursery have made me aware many times that he is only one of two children in his group that still wear pull-ups to nursery.
Thank you in advance x