My 4.5 year old hates using public bathrooms
Instead she will hold her wee in all day which im worried will affect her long-term.
Ive had times sitting in a public bathroom for a good 20 minutes until she wees!
I saw yesterday while at a park a mum take her children (looked about 5 and 6) to the car where she got a potty for them to use.
Do others do this?
I hadn't thought about it before as thought its going backwards but my daughter still uses the potty sometimes at home aswell as our toilet!
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Has she said why she hates using them? We keep a potty in the boot for our boy of a similar age just in case - he still uses the potty at home as well! But we’ve got a little travel seat for public toilets which as helped :)
I have an emergency fold down potty in the car incase he’s desperate to go and there’s no available toilet, but it’s been in my car a year and he’s never used it😂 has she said to you at all why she doesn’t like it?
Tbh I am the one who doesn’t like her using public toilet because all I think of is infection so I just pray and hope she doesn’t need it. But if she does, I just put tissue all over and make it comfortable for her. But before she was 4 I used to take travel potty with me
We take a travel potty out with us which is really useful
It’s me with the fear of public toilets, I also have the fold out potty in the boot and use it a lot. It does not affect her, she uses the toilet herself at nursery and if my partner is with me he will take her to the toilet. At home we use a mix of the toilet or the potty depending on what room we are in.
I used to be like this as a kid (still kinda weird about it but a girl's gotta go) and I ended up with chronic UTIs. Why is she afraid of them? I personally didn't like them for sanitary reasons and now I'm only able to use them if I lay down toilet paper (pooping) or squat above the seat (peeing).
Have you tried a reward? My daughter was really scared of using public restrooms but then I got her a big Elmo sticker that she desperately wanted and I told her she can only have it if she goes potty at the store. Well it worked and now she goes no issue. I usually have to help cover her ears when it flushes because she hates loud noises but other than that she does really good now. And I only needed to reward her the one time. I think it was more about feeling safe than anything
We have a my carry potty for emergencies, I keep it in the car along with nappy sacks and anti bacterial wipes!
Has she had a bad experience where she sat on a toilet with the seat not down and she's "fallen in" ? Which as we all know is terrifying!
We had a foldable toilet seat with a frog face on, could that help?
My daughter was like that for a while but grew out of it. Where we live there are no good toilets. So it was an issue for both of us.
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