Potty training

Hello! Does anyone have any advice on potty training a girl? We’ve been trying to get her potty trained for months! She will do good for a few days then randomly doesn’t want to use the potty and wont tell me when she has to go. I ask her about every 10 minutes or so, i tried using panties, i tried leaving her with no pants/pullups, i tried incentives, im at a loss here 😭
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Good luck Momma! We've been trying for a long time too. I finally just said whatever. She'll do it when she's ready 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ Not worth stressing myself out over it. Have you tried a potty watch? I've heard sometimes those really help cuz it makes them feel even more independent. Didn't work for mine but maybe try that?

I would make my daughter go into the bathroom about every 30 minutes, and we would sit in there for about 10. When she did go potty on the toilet she would get a lot of praise and get a special potty treat which for her was usually a Hersheys kiss. Hope that helps!

Does she like going when you go? Or maybe, try something similar to what I did, I would put my infant son on a potty, and have another potty right next to it, and she was more excited to do it then, saved a few nappies too cause my son didnt hold back 😅

@Kelly Ive never heard of that! Ill look into it! It seems like our Virgo babies are all stubborn lol

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When you have to go take her with you and sitt her on her potty give her a book or your phone...or every 20min ask her if she needs to go just take her in sit her down 👍

Easier said than done, but try giving her more independence and agency. You know she can do it since she does well for a few days, so just pretend like you don't care. If you notice she needs to go, or suspect she does, just remind her where the potty is and then walk away and let her decide. If she chooses to go, big celebration. If not, no biggie, just point out after an accident that she put her pee in her pants or whatever, and remind her that pee goes in the potty. Have her help clean up and start again.

We started this week too…….. it’s not going well….. Good luck!!

Put them on the toilet right when they wake up every morning at least that’s what worked with my son and after a couple times he started to go by himself even throughout the day

Might sound mean but we would also say “eeeww you peed your pants that’s crazy just yesterday you were saying your a big boy (because he always says he is) grown ups don’t pee their pants “ and that sticked in his head because the very first time he said no mom I got this I’m a big boy he peed and wiped himself also flushed 😂 I was impressed

Honestly I let my last two kids just decide when they wanted to start and they both just did it on their own. I put my 3 year old in a diaper to go out or go to sleep but even then he rarely pees in it. With my first I tried hard and tried over and over again. But just letting them do it at their timing takes all the work out of it

I let my daughter run around without bottoms on just a long shirt that covered her. I did it for about a week. We had a few accidents in the floor but she was potty trained by her second birthday.

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