Potty training hell
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We tried with our little girl yesterday and she was happy to sit on the potty playing games but then got up and walked away to do a wee, I tried to put her on the potty whilst she was still weeing but she absolutely refused and hysterically cried 🙈 and then once I'd cleaned her she then went and sat back on the potty to play games 🤷♀️ so it's like she's happy to sit on the potty but not to actually do a wee in it...found it quite stressful for her so I didn't start again today, I'm not sure if she's ready just yet
I’m several weeks in but not turning back! Have some days now no accidents at all and others several for different reasons! She showed signs last summer but had my LO in August so we got side tracked… then she started off great but wasn’t consistent and always had loads of accidents at nursery as for now it’s 1/2 but poo is the tricky thing for us she’s done them on the potty and toilet but out at soft play or something it’s almost impossible with my 7 month old 🙈
Solidarity with all of you. I now feel like a fool for being so stress-free about it… before we actually started this weekend. It’s been an absolutely nightmare. Prior to starting, my daughter was excited and sat on the potty plenty of times - happy about it! Once we actually started training it’s been a completely different story. She is screaming the house down pretty much hyperventilating and refuses to go near any of the three potties we have. Naked first day and held her pee in for over 6+ hours and would wait to go in her nappy at nap and night time. She cried and begged us to put nappies on her and even tried several times herself. Day one was an epic disaster. Day 2 we let her put trousers on (even though she clearly didn’t pass the first phase from the Oh Crap book we are following) and she pretty much had 4 accidents throughout the day and I had to physically hold her down to finish her pees in the potty. I can only laugh bc of how horribly it’s going 🤷♀️
She’s doing great! We started in early Feb and my girl was having accidents for about 2 weeks but it got less and less and now tells us when she wants a wee bit she’s stopped telling us that she wants a poo which is annoying. She is almost always dry when she has a nap and is dry at least 50% of nights although we won’t be taking nappies off at those times for a while yet.
We are just getting to the other side of it. I totally feel your pain- the first 2 days were the worst! The best thing I was told is that getting wees and poos in the potty to start with is all about coincidence. Make a huge fuss, give stickers, give treats. Then just keep reminding them that wee goes in the potty. I explained that juice turns to wee in your tummy and you put wee in the potty so he’s keen to sit on the potty after having a drink. It’s a lot of reminding him to sit and encouraging him and distracting him with a fave book on the potty- he isn’t telling us he needs it yet. Give it a few more days and I’m sure it will feel a little easier
Days 2 & 3 were the worst for us. Knickers confused her more because of the feeling of having something there she just wee'd through them! Make sure your LOs can pull there trousers and pants down them self's - makes it alot easier. We did it 6 months ago and she didn't know how to do that and would just sit and wee through them 😆🙈 Try and push through. We said we would give it a week and if she's not getting it we would go back but by the end of day 3 it just clicked! It's hard - very hard there was alot of tears and stress but you got this! 🙌
I started about 3 weeks ago. Potty at home I’d say we have that down now … potty outside of the house not so much. People told me it would only take a week lol I’m a month in and still going 🤣 it’s … a lot
It’s awful isn’t it?! We started yesterday afternoon and so far we’ve only had accidents. She’s not done anything on the potty at all despite sitting on it for a decent period of time. We’re tempted to throw the towel in but then I feel like we need to give it a bit longer before we do. Part of me just thinks she’s not ready but then I really want her to do a little wee in the potty so she knows what to do! It’s so hard… I knew it would be but man!