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Should we pause potty training?

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Kooky0105 · 04/11/2026 11:38

Hi everyone,

We have currently been potty training our 2.5 year old for the last 5 weeks. The first few weeks went really well, she was the only child in her nursery room who would take herself to the toilet for wees. Unfortunately she would still poop her pants, but I understand this takes longer to grasp anyway.

As of about a week ago, she has started wetting herself and being quite unbothered by it, which is very unlike her (OCD child who likes to be clean). When I ask her why, she says "I just wanted to" with a shrug. It's like she suddenly doesn't care.. It's most frustrating because I know she CAN do it, she can recognise the cues and she knows wee needs to go in the toilet. The other day I suggested she goes back into nappies as a kind of "threat" and she was quite happy about it, which again is weird since she's been taking pride in her "big girl pants".

I really can't decide whether to stop potty training and put her back in nappies or not, given that she did make progress before...

Any advice? Thank you in advance!

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ChateauProvence · 04/11/2026 11:40

My LO did this after being dry for 5 weeks or so and tbh I just continued - tried to catch her mid flow if I could and put her on the potty and then cleaned her up with no drama - I thibk she was attention seeking tbh and then a lot of the time she’d want to play with me straight away but I’d say sorry I can’t I need to tidy up this mess next time let’s use the potty. It took a few weeks but we got there. I know it’s annoying but i definitely wouldn’t go back to nappy’s

Kooky0105 · 06/11/2026 09:25

Thanks so much for your response! She did another wee accident yesterday and seemed so unbothered by it, which is just so frustrating as she was never like this before. It feels like one big long regression! Thanks for the vote of confidence, I do appreciate it

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ChateauProvence · 06/11/2026 09:54

Honestly keep going it took a couple of weeks but now we have had about a month with no accidents and consistently telling me when she wants to go. I went back to just putting her on the potty every half hour when she was having the accidents. It will click in the end

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