What did potty training look like for you?
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Took a week to be fully day trained and another week after to be fully night trained. You are getting more successes than accidents so that’s good, keep going!
Someone send help cause my girl is not getting this at all.
It took about three days to understand the potty. Then a month of no accidents.
Thank you all. Useful to know. @Sarah did you have her naked from the bottom down to start with? Showed her how you do it? Read her books about it?
I waited until my son was ready, for him that was age 3. First day we had about 4-5 accidents, day 2 we had 1 accident and by day 3 he’d got it.
Very similar to N. Except he was 2 and half. Day 1: 4 accidents. Day 2: 1 accident Day 3: none. Still a few accidents here and there especially when he moved to the pre school room at nursery. Didn't bother with the naked from waste down thing. Just went about our daily lives with a travel potty
Yeah three days, at 2 years 2 months old. Obviously she's only young so she had accidents at nursery once or twice the months after but never at home or when we were out.
Started preschool in nappies on 9th September had first accident free day with underpants at preschool yesterday, so over a month
@Elsa yeah, we’ve done a whole naked week! Read to her, showed her how to do it. She’ll tell me when she’s used her nappy, almost shouting wee wee mummy! Or she’ll just take the thing off when it’s used and I have to chase a naked toddler and find the nappy in the house 🤦🏼♀️ we will go sit on the potty and wait afterwards but nothing happens. She’ll want to wipe and wash her hands, so all the actions, but she just won’t go in the potty itself! Tried going to sit there every hour and wait, nope. She’s tried training knickers and watched her nursery peers. Just not letting herself pee in the potty yet but very unhappy to be wet and stripping out of her clothes and nappy.
@Sarah have you tried bypassing the potty and going straight to the toilet? My son point blank refused to use the potty but would happily use the toilet
@N 💞 yeah, that results in tears so i stopped as I didn’t want to set her off. She gets all the steps, loves her potty books but just won’t let herself wee in the potty 🤦🏼♀️ she’ll only pee in a nappy or knickers and then tell me straight after she needs the potty. I’ve almost given up 😂
@Sarah ah that’s fair enough, that’s how my son was with the potty so I get it! Maybe she’s just not quite ready yet. Could be worth giving it a break and trying again in another month or so
My son turn three i started training him. Only had 6 accidents day one , day two 4 accidents and day three 2 accidents , day 4- 4 accidents , day 5 no accidents. Then the occasional accidents . And he was toilet trained for day time and night.
@Rohini you did both day and night at the same time? How old was he? How did the nights go?
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@Elsa you can’t ‘train’ overnight. It’s a hormonal thing so will happen whenever they are ready.
@N 💞 this is what I thought too but for example the oh crap book suggests otherwise so I am open to hearing people’s experiences. Only doing day training personally. xx
@Elsa what does the book suggest?
@Elsa I can’t think of anything worse than waking them up in the middle of the night 😵💫 I’d rather wait until they’re ready.
@N 💞 couldn’t agree more so said no chance to my husband and convinced him in the end!
@Elsa good job on convincing him! Maybe don’t let him read anything anymore either 😅
@Elsa it just worked as he understood the peeing sensation. He is 3.3 years old when I trained him. At night only one accident he had when he started. Before going bed I took him to the toilet. Didn't wake up at all. No accidents at night. Now he doesnt like having wet underwear at all. He literally screams if his underwear is slightly wet. It wasn't able waking them up at night. My toddler just knew the sensation of peeing etc.. which made it easier for him and me.
So first 3 days, barely any accidents - maybe two overall. She went from bottoms off to trousers on really quickly. Went to nursery, accidents galore. After a week, barely a wee accident since but the poop? Now that was so much harder. We still have the odd poop accident two months in but it really took 1.5 months to get her to consistently poop in the potty. She was either going in her night nappy or her underpants. Buying a bunch of books to consistently read (especially Princess piper of poopville) seemed to help!
@Jaimmie haha! Love the title of the book and glad all is looking bright for you.
Zero success 20 accidents. Gave up as i cried washing poops. Waiting for my mom to come and take this responsibility 🙄