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From the community

Recent discussions

Potty Training Boys

I AM LOSING MY MARBLES!!! My son is refusing to potty train at all. He is straight up telling me “No”!
I’ve tried, candy,music, his favorite stuff animal showing him to go potty, the potty watch, stickers, the naked method( I hated this one). Is he not ready? He has to be ready! If anyone has any tips PLEASE!! HELP ME!

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My son turned 3 on the first of March. He has been going pee in the potty pretty well the last 2 weeks. Even self initiated. HE WILL NOT POOP!! He will hold it until it’s bed time and he gets his overnight pull up. It’s not good!! I’ve tried to ask him if he has to poop and even offered a pull up if he does it in the bathroom at least…. And be will turn me down. 😩

What has worked for you??

Potty training

I need to potty train my little girl. She is happy to sit on the toilet and does it for fun sometimes so planning to skip the actual potty and go straight to toilet. She had done a wee in the toilet on three occasions. She tells me when she is doing a wee or a poo and I think she is ready but I haven’t trained her yet because I’ve had a second baby 9 weeks ago. Now that she has adjusted to her baby brother I think I’m going to give it to go but I have no clue where to start and how to go about it.

Can anyone share the methods they used and any tips or tricks?

Potty training

We will be starting our potty training journey this week. Those who started already, what potties did you use ? Or did you just start straight with a toilet ?

Anbesol liquid

How frequent and for how long should you use anbesol liquid on teething gums of a 5 month old?

Potty training

Hey everyone just coming on to ask for a bit of advice. My LO is coming 2 next weekend and I started potty training with her yesterday. At the beginning she was quite upset to use the potty but she will sit on it without tears today. However she has had countless accidents and we still haven’t had a successful pee in the potty :(( she even peed beside the potty today. Do yous think she still doesn’t quite understand or am I doing this all wrong🙈 we just took the nappy off and let her run about in the house without anything on. We’re at home this week so any tips or tricks would be very greatly appreciated. Thank you xx

Potty training

We have been introducing the potty gradually - when playing at home we have no nappy on and my boy (just turned 2) will always pee and poo in the potty if he has no nappy on. Sometimes asks for it before bed. If he has a nappy on he’ll go in that, then sometimes tell us he has pood, or sometimes denies it when we ask 😂. Doesn’t tell us he’s wet or has weed.

How do we progress to pants? Most of my friends have potty trained a bit later with the 3 day no nappy method. But I dunno how useful that would be given he clearly already has the hang of using the potty when he has no nappy on. Should we go straight to trialling just pants instead of no nappy while he plays at home? Or still do the prolonged no nappy at home method before putting pants on?

Interested to hear from anyone who took a more gradual approach like this.

Potty training!

Hi moms! I’m starting to potty train my two year old any tips that could help? 💕

How are you doing nappy changes?

I’m still doing them laid down at the moment but wondering whether to move to standing up to help ease LO towards potty training….

For those of you doing them stood up, how do you make sure you wipe LO down properly especially after a 💩?

Impossible toddler

Anyone else going through similar?

Currently my daughter’s behaviour is really testing and I’m struggling.
She will not let me change her nappy. I have to pin her down and it’s horrific for me and her. I’ve tried absolutely everything except for taking her nappies away and potty training her. But she’s way too young and she just wouldn’t get it. That’s what my guts tells me. She’s showed no signs what so ever for being ready, she doesn’t try take her nappy off and she can’t even pull her trousers up or down. She just simple doesn’t want to get changed.

Also she just says NO! To nearly everything I ask of her and throws herself to the ground. And I wouldn’t mind but I’m pretty chill and easy going and I almost encourage play, freedom and I’m not overly protective.

I’m also not embarrassed and I couldn’t care less about her behaviour in public but it’s more for myself. By the end of the day I’m so drained.

Help! She’s 20 months.

Advice?

Anyone got a child that their favourite sensory thing is water?? If so can someone suggest anything I am going out of my mind here!!

My son is 3 years old and loves water (he’s going through autism assessment at the moment not sure if it’s relevant but just so kinda know) no matter where there’s water he will be there for sure but my issue is he’s got this obsession with my toilet I thought we got past it a year ago! And yes I lock the door from the outside so he couldn’t get in there and now he’s figured out how to unlock the door! He’s not potty trained he’s non verbal just thought that putting a lock on the outside at the top where he can’t reach is abit much I feel like I’m kind of stopping him from learning about the toilet he comes with me or his brother when we use it but he will put anything in the toilet to play with that water and my eldest son is gross sometimes doesn’t always flush the toilet feel like I’m forever just bathing him cos he’s played in the toilet 🤦‍♀️😂

Any advice is welcome! Someone help a momma out please Tia ❤️

Teething…. I think

Can anyone offer advice/ confirm he could be teething, I do honestly think he’s teething but I can’t see anything on his gum line. He’s been so grumpy last couple of weeks, he rubs his ears a lot, screams in pain and is grumpy, constantly dribbling and everything goes in his mouth. If it’s not teething I don’t have a clue but I can’t see anything in his mouth- he’s 8 months next weeks. I’m just really struggling with it all atm.

Potty training

Hi mamas, my little love is 19 months and interested in the potty. Originally we weren’t going to do pull ups because I feel like it’s a glorified diaper, however; my little isn’t ready for training underwear (we tried). I want her to feel/ know she’s supported in her interest, sooooo…what’s a good pull up brand? Are there any that give the feeling of being wet or no? I think that will help her get down the mechanics of pulling her underwear up and down.
FTP (First time parents) so we’re navigating something new.

Give me ALL the potty training advice🙃

My son was 3 at the start of Feb, and terrified of using the potty. Zero bad experiences, he’s literally never sat on it without bottoms on. The last few days he’s worn training pants and told us when he needs a wee and we’ll change him into a pull up to pee, then change back into pants. Wasn’t the plan, but at least he’s practicing holding it in and telling us when he needs to go.

We have tried:

- totally naked, and saying we didn’t have any pull ups in the house. He held in his wee for so long he was crying that it hurt so we had to put a pull up on before it resulted in actual damage (hadn’t gone since we took his night time pull up off and it was gone 2pm)

- urinal

- toilet seat on the normal toilet with stool

- potty that looks like a toilet and “flushes”, him going and choosing his own potty

- sitting on the potty fully dressed reading stories to show him it’s not scary

- bribes😂 health visitor suggested buying cheap toys, wrapping them up and leaving them in the bathroom for him to see, but he says he “already has toys, I don’t need any more”

- both me and my partner stayed home with him for a solid week dedicated to it

I know kids do things at different ages, but he was already supposed to start school 2 months ago and we don’t want to send him until he’s potty trained, hence trying everything possible

What helped make the potty training process easier for you?

Hi ladies,

I’m about to start potty training my 18-month-old baby girl. I’ve done some research, but I’d really love to hear your tips and personal experiences.

What advice would you give about the process? Is there anything I should be careful about? I’d love to know how it went for you and what helped make it easier.

My mom told me she potty trained me when I was around 10 months old and it worked really well, so please don’t tell me it’s too early. I’m just looking for advice and helpful tips.

Thank you!

Potty training help

I’m at a loss and feel like I’m failing!

My daughter is nearly 2.5. We started the oh crap method a few months again and was not successful and caused a lot of stress. We decided to park it and try again over Easter (I’m a teacher so have the time off during this period). My daughter came to us one evening and said she needed a poo and sat on the potty and did one, so we thought great, let’s try this again. We had two amazing days, she would happily sit on the potty, did a few wees and a poo and one accident. The following days have been hell. Absolute refusal to sit on the potty, meltdowns and distress at even the word, would cry until her nappy was back on. This is what happened last time which is why we decided to park it. I have no idea where to go with this, I’m aware she’s coming out of the ‘peak window’ and don’t want to miss the boat but also don’t want to cause her this much stress!

We have tried everything: books, songs, role play, sticker chart, chocolate, praise, potty, toilet seat, I don’t know what else to do and have been made to feel like I’m failing!

Any advice or someone in a similar situation - everyone I seem to know managed to crack potty training within 3 days!

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