I despair. After 4 dry months, DD back in nappies.

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We potty trained DD1 (2.8) in July. It only took a few days, she learned really quickly, never had a single poo accident and everyone commented on how good she was. She'd sometimes have the occasional leakage when she couldn't get to the loo in time but otherwise was dry and clean.

Then, all of a sudden, she started wetting big time, about a month ago (DD2 is 7mo but not sure if it's anything to do with her). We now have 4-6 wee accidents a day. She just can't be bothered and whenever we ask if she needs the loo, she denies, then goes on to wee in her pants shortly afterwards.

We had this conversation earlier:

Me: Your trousers are wet, have you weed in them?
DD: Yes.
Me: Why?
DD: Because I needed to.
Me: Why didn't you tell me you needed the loo?
DD: Because I don't like it.

So, I give up. We have just put her back in pull-ups because we simply haven't got anything dry for her to wear. Is this a Wrong Thing To Do???

Please advise!

Anyone? Please?

I don't get why you had nothing dry for her to wear?

I would see how she is with the pull ups. She might decide she doesn't like them.

The baby probably is a factor but that isn't going to change, baby is here to stay!

This happened with my DS. He was 2.7 when we trained him and also did it within a week. I was feeling happily smug and then he just decided he didn't fancy using the potty any more and would just announce he had 'done one Mum'. It drove me crazy and I also resorted to putting him back in Nappies, but that wasn't what I wanted to do at all.
We tried a few things. We bribed him - a small gift for staying dry all day, but what really worked was taking it right back to the beginning. Just start again.
Take her regularly. She may not like it, but I just explained to DS that as he was wetting himself that was the way it was.
Take some of the pressure off her, it's up to both of you to keep her dry. If you think she needs to go, take her to the potty. if you're wrong you're wrong. She needs to break the habit of wetting herself.
Also if you think she is old enough, tell her she needs to take her wet clothes off and out the dry ones on. Not in a punishment kind of way, but just to make it a less attractive thing to be wet.
Good luck, just work on it together.

Some good tips there, thank you. The problem with just taking her is that she'll scream blue murder, arch her back and simply refuse to sit on the toilet or potty. How do you deal with that?

Why did we have nothing dry for her to wear - okay I was exaggerating but I had washed about 10 pairs of trousers (that's approximately how many she owns) and they were still drying on the line.

I had this with my DD2. She trained easily shortly before she turned two. 3 months later I had DS, 2 months after that (so 5 months of being completely trained), she had a total relapse on poos and a lot of wee accidents. After 2 weeks of non stop poo in pants I put her back into nappies. Luckily for me she HATED nappies and so that did the trick, after 2 days she screamed blue murder about nappies and went back to using the loo.

In your case i would suggest you stick to nappies for a short time (say 10 days). Make it clear to her that nappies are just for a short time and that she will be back to big girl pants soon. For a week make no comment whatsoever and stop asking her about the loo.

After that spend a couple of days reminding her that she will shortly be going back to pants. Buy loads of chocolate buttons or something and leave them visibly on a high shelf commenting that in a few days once she is back in pants and using the loo she can have them after each successful day (don't go on about this - point it out once then just leave them somewhere she can see them).

When you start up again try treat it pretty much like you did first time around.

Hopefully she just needs a break and will go back to it willingly once she has had time to calm down about it all.