still wetting himself after three months of no nappies

[cappy1]

Hello mums,

My sweet little ds is 2.5 and I started potty training in the summer thinking we would be done and dusted come winter. He took to using the potty well and seemed to be doing well with less and less accidents. Over the past few months he seems to have regressed and is now having at least 2 accidents a day. Luckily these are wee accidents and not pooh ones (can't believe I am writing about pooh). Anyway I have discussed with his nursery and they say he is nearly there as he is just getting to the toilet too late and then wees himself. But when we are at home he often just wees himself and then I say what happened and he doesn't want to tell me or talk about it or sit on the potty and it is nothing to do with not getting to the toilet quick enough. Is this normal to take so long? has anyone got any advice?

Thanks

My DD did this and it ended up with we worked out when she was doing it and tried to get a routine going. It tends to be that she doesn't like to stop what she is doing and leaves it to late. It also gave her more attention. We use to do the change silent and I wouldn't ask her why or anything, just change and send her back to whatever she is doing.

It also took us about 2 years for her to be totally ok with Potty training. Some weeks she was fine and then we'd have a few weeks were it would all go wrong.

It is normal, IME, especially with those that trained fairly 'early' (I know opinion will differ on what Early is) or those that were 'trained' by someone rather than left to their own to initiate it

DD1 was 'trained' at 2.4, did well for 1st few months, regressed several times until she was about 3.6-4 yrs? (IIRC)

DD2 did it herself and I can count the number of accidents she's had on the fingers of 1 hand (she's been clean and dry since March time)

Sounds like DD and is not ready, we put her back into nappies for a bit and then she was fine.

Thanks mums - I like the idea of not making a big deal of it and changing him without any fuss being made - hope it does take two years though!

Why not put him back in nappies and wait a while. Im my experience, if they are really ready, they go straight from nappies to pants with very few if any accidents - lots of accidents means not ready in my book!