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Signs Your Toddler Is Ready for Potty Training (& Signs They’re Not)

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What are the Best Teething Foods?

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Nighttime Potty Training: Your Expert Guide

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Potty Training: Your Complete Guide

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When to Start Potty Training

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How to Potty Train A Girl: 20 Tips from Real Moms

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Potty Training Boys: 16 Tips from Real Moms

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Advice needed

Advice needed please! My 2 year old has been getting over excited and just lays on the couch and bed and just hits and kicks over and over again. Started with just diaper changes but now he’s doing it a lot more. He will kick me so hard. We have a spinning chair for him to use when he needs some sensory help but he hasn’t been using it. He keeps screaming “petal” so I know he’s pretending he’s on a bike but I’m so overwhelmed on how to stop this. He doesn’t listen to no or stop or anything.

Potty Training

So I’ve started potty training my daughter over the last week just here and there but today we’ve stayed in the full day to do it properly over the long weekend and she seems to have cracked it fingers crossed.

When out and about in the car do we just put a nappy on her again or a puppy pad under her?

We have got a travel potty as well for when we’re out and about.

Potty training

Anyone else waiting to start potty training until LO is old enough to be communicating their readiness and recognizing their own body signals? Our son is almost 3 and is comfortable with the potty but just doesn’t want to use it. We have been using a lot of language around going potty about recognizing the feeling to help him learn and trust his own cues. I know we could just strip him and deal with accidents for a few days and I think he’d figure it out pretty fast, but it upsets him so much when we suggest going without a diaper, and I don’t want to start with such a strong a negative association. With everything else so far, he has waited until he is ready to learn or do something and then does it right away - but it can be such a fight if we try to push him any sooner. We have felt good about the choice to wait but since he’s our first we have no other experiences… now reading about people potty training by 2 or even 18 months and feeling some pressure like we waited too long and it’s only going to be harder now. Curious to hear anyone else’s experiences.

Prek potty train issue with teachers

My toddler has two teachers and one of them told me my girl has been holding in her pee,but at home she tells me she has to pee. She did just stsrt the prek, so am sure she is not comfortable yet,but i can't help,but to worry. I think they stress her with her potty training. At home I do every hour, or she does her wiggle dance and I ask her. She will shyly say yes. I don't stress walking to her potty and will ask her questions that help the process. She sometimes stay in her potty longer with me cause I tell her listen to ur body. She will listen to her body cause even when I say time up she will say no almost and would do pee or poo. She does not tell her teachers when she has to go potty. I was told they make her go every 30 minutes and one of the teachers am sorry use a really mean tone that I feel is making it harder for her to feel comfortable. The teacher told me to keep working with her,but am like she does great with me. She even tells her aunt when she has to use the potty so am like. Idk what to say. How should I approach this. My girl loves going to prek, I want to help my girl and how do I communicate it to her teacher?

Potty Training

Hiii new autism boy mom here my son takes off his diaper all the time a lot of people say he might be ready to potty train any tips and tricks ? 😊

Do your potty trained toddler boy sit down to pee?

My husband says we should teach him to pee standing up, but he's gotten so used to peeing sitting down idk how to even try it standing.

I once tried to help him do an emergency pee outside 🫣 and it didn't end well.

Is it worth teaching him now (he's newly 3) or is it something that bigger kids will just kinda learn as they go?

Terrible twos are officially arriving!!

My daughter is going through the terrible twos now… we thought she was when she was turning 1 but now it’s really REALLY hitting!!! She’s throwing herself on the floor when she gets told no or we try to redirect her, we’re at a loss on what to do. Redirecting doesn’t work rn because she’ll just throw herself down, what other things can we do to help this girl through her emotions but also not having her do dangerous things like playing with cords, outlets, doors, and whatever else!! Yes we keep cords up but she’ll still find the ones we have hidden but need pulled in, we keep outlets covered unless we forget to put the covers back on, but we can do anything about doors.. she knows how to open the closet door and the sliding bathroom door doesn’t have a latch to keep closed and can’t keep it closed because it latches on the inside!!! Please help, all and any tips are welcome besides the redirecting one😅 like I said it doesn’t work😭

Teething?

Not the most clear picture but is this the start of teething? 19 weeks old tomorrow has been more grizzly than usual recently and putting fingers in her mouth a lot instead of just fits. She’s also been pulling her ear occasionally

Potty training help!

My little girl showed all signs of being ready in June. She nailed potty training with all the usual stuff, check list.
Then last week she had a sore bottom at nursery that really wasn't that bad and lasted less than 48 hours.
Ever since she refuses to sit on the potty. She is telling me wee and poo but fights doing it on the potty.
I spent yesterday putting her on the potty every 30 minutes but she just refuses to let go and do a wee. So she just ends up weeing all over the floor etc as she cant hold it in anymore.
She is panicking its going to be sore but its not.
I've tried reasoning with her. I've tried everything, bribery etc.
I cannot get through to her that she's safe and let go and it won't hurt doing a wee on the potty.
Has anyone else experienced this?

Potty Training.. where to start?

I think our Jan 2024 girlie is ready. Her speech is good and she understands instructions and the general concept of the toilet.

She has watched us go, understands what to do then to flush and wash hands. She role plays this a lot with the small toilet looking potty we’ve had in the house for a while and on the adult toilet with us holding her, but hasn’t actual gone and we haven’t started ‘properly’ training her.

I’ve got knickers at the ready and books/stickers. So any advice of how we start from here? We’d like to use the bank holiday to give it a good crack!

Any advice appreciated. I don’t know if I’ve confused things having the potty out etc and now she thinks it’s a game 🤦🏼‍♀️😂

Thanks!

Help a mama outttt!

Okay so my son is about to be 5months old on the 6th & it seems that he is teething and usually I have been giving him teething toys & teething cream for his gums but lately it seems like nothing is helping . He’s also up more and super fussy then usual which I expected but not this bad lol Also taking maybe 30-40 minute naps 😭 any ideas on what I can do for teething ???

Potty training

Has anyone started potty training their little one?
We've started the last few weeks with my little girl and she's very happy sitting on the potty but we are still yet to get that first wee in the potty!
She can sit on the potty and then walk away and pee on the floor straight after 🙃

She's very quick to tell us when she needs to do a poo but it often ends up being a fart also 😂

Potty Training

Is 21 months to early? My little girl will be starting nursery in January when she turns 2 and she has shown interest in the potty we have in the bathroom at home and I am debating if I should just start trying her in October…any thoughts?

Has anyone else started potty training yet?

Just curious if anyone has started potty training yet. We had been doing on and off elimination communication for awhile. And we have cloth diapered for the large majority of the time. But most of the moms I have talked to its not even on their radar. And my friends who have 2 and 3 year olds are currently working through potty training.

Vulvovaginitis

Has anyone else’s little girl had this? It’s developed since we’ve potty trained, think it’s been exacerbated by a combination of her not managing to dry herself after she’s been for a wee and being extra sensitive to the detergents that are left over on her knickers, although I only use fairy non bio.

Not had much help from the GP with how to keep it at bay other than them saying she’ll grow out of it!

Potty

Has anyone introduced a potty yet?
My little one brings me nappies when she needs changing at times and has signs when she’s going to the toilet.
I introduced it today and she did a wee first time sitting on it after her nap, but when telling a friend her response was a lot like “that’s way too early”.
Just wondering if anyone else has introduced it?
I’m not properly potty training, more just sitting her on it at times, she’ll still be in nappies no pants or things like that.

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