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@birdofafeather: I totally believe revenge peeing is a thing.
@2PeasinaPod: it sounds like he isn't ready yet, maybe wait a bit. DD talks about the potty, tells us when she is going or needs to go, expresses interest in our bathroom habits, doesn't want to wear diapers, can hold her bladder. -
@2PeasinaPod: we have form A LOT of taking about potty and recently he would tell us after he went. I've heard one of the best ways to start casually is to just put them on the potty every morning when they get up. Or it could be before nap. Start a routine. Or you could do a "method." I fee like if he's 3, he should be able enough once he knows what the deal is.
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@Mrs Green Grass: Yeah, we've been consistently putting him on the potty just before bath for the last year. One of the 3 times he actually peed on the potty was when he was in the bath. He started peeing and I told him we don't pee in the tub, we pee on the potty. He immediately stopped, asked to sit on the potty, and after a little bit of stage freight, went on the potty. That was short lived though since he hasn't gone since (that was like 2 months ago). So that's where I just get worried that he's being lazy.
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@2PeasinaPod: if he has control like that, you might just need to go full throttle. It's terrifying, but I hear it ends eventually?
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@Smurfette: maybe try doing pants with no underwear. He pees in underwear too, but not pants. Well we'll see when I go pick him up.
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@travellingbee: We are holding off till Labor Day weekend. I just Oh Crap, Potty Training in the mail today.
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@Smurfette: no accidents today at school!!! (He accidentally pooped in his diaper at nap, but he told them and just didn't make it in time.) I'm sooooo proud of him!!
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We used this- http://www.lucieslist.com/introduction-to-potty-training/
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@travellingbee: that's awesome! I am so bummed she started off great and then stopped having an my interest. I will check out that link too!
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@Smurfette: well you know we've just started at who knows what will happen...
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I feel like the crappiest parent because today R's teachers told me she has to wear pull ups at school all day until she isn't having accidents. She was more potty trained 4 months ago when she started and I feel like it's my fault somehow because she wasn't even wearing pull ups until 2 months ago and that's because I thought it would help with training for naps and overnights. I'm seriously crying in my car. I'm sure the pregnancy hormones don't help but I honestly don't know how to "train" her when she absolutely knows where to go. I just never thought we'd be here after this long.
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@birdofafeather: I am scared of this exact scenario. DD is doing better, but still won't poop on the potty. Her assistant teacher keeps telling us to put her in undies, not pull ups, but I really wonder how long they want to be cleaning up after her.
I'm also in the same boat with her obviously knowing what to do, but not doing it. WTF do you do about that?
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@birdofafeather: that's exactly where I was at on Sunday. It's all so overwhelming and we have so little control and so many little decisions to make all the time. She probably needs you to just back off for a bit and then maybe start over?
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It'll be confusing for her to wear pull ups all day!
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Joining this thread, we are doing the OCPT boot camp this weekend!
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@Mrs Green Grass: I'm not even sure how to start over! I'd like a reset but I'm so confused how to even do that. She hasn't worn diapers during the day for at least 5 months. And I'm not even sure that's what's right either.
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I should add this is only pee. Knock on wood, poop hasn't been an issue.
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@birdofafeather: first, don't forget that you moved. That is a huge deal!
I'm really not sure what I would do, but you don't want it to seem like a big deal to her and cause real problems. That's why I think backing off would be good, but I don't think pull ups are a great idea. Maybe training pants? The thicker undies? Then I'd start a whole new reward system, different than anything you've done before. Like go to the dollar store and pick out a bunch of little prizes and wrap them up and every day she goes to bed in the same pair of undies she gets to unwrap one... Just be careful not to react much to the accident. Do you think the daycare handles things ok?
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Update on Dylan: no accidents Monday ( except poop) and one on Tuesday at home. Accident free at preschool (except poop). He's telling me he needs to poop, he just can't go on the toilet. We're trying to spend longer time on it when he says he needs to watching Elmo Potty videos.
Today I'm going to take him to the dollar store to get some prizes for pooping. I feel like he's on the verge, just needs a little extra push an motivation.
By the way, our sticker chart is the most exciting thing in the world to him. I bought cool packs of Cars, Thomas and vehicle stickers at Target and he gets to put one on his big potty poster each time he pees or poops on the toilet. He loves it. (Not my best work of art...)
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Oh here is my summary:
Summary: 27 months old DD. She's been peeing on the potty pretty well, pooped a few times but in general tells us immediately AFTER she poops. We made the mistake of getting into M&M rewards a few months ago for peeing and pooping and I don't know how we're going to get out of it now.
She is still in diapers, we are doing the 3 day bootcamp this weekend. Eek!
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Our update.
No accidents Monday.
No accidents Tuesday but she was definitely holding poo and didn't go #2 at all. She also probably peed in the pool during swim class. At least I hope she did, because she only peed twice.
Cut to this morning...she pees on the potty and then goes outside when I let the dog out and poops in the yard?!
And literally just did half a pee on the floor before making it to the potty.
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Summary: DD is 22 months old - at 19/20 months, she was fully day trained both at home and daycare. We did the 3 day method and I was shocked at how quickly she caught on. Joke was on me, because, within the last month, she has just decided she is not going to use the potty and would rather have accidents.
Now we are in a place where I'm too tired/pregnant/frustrated to deal with it so I leave her naked waist-down at home and 90% of the time she will go on the potty. When we go out of the house I put her in a diaper or pull up. We are just very inconsistent and I can see how she is confused. Sometimes she goes happily, sometimes she holds in until we go out and she is in a diaper, sometimes she cries and screams and refuses to go on the potty.
Me: Exhausted. I want to give up and try again in a few months, especially since baby #2 is due early October and I know regressions are common. I'm home with her all summer so I feel like it is the perfect time to potty train, but I hate being confined to the house. We only get so many nice weather months here in Canada and I want to enjoy them. But then I'm afraid of giving up all together since she DOES get it and I don't want to erase all of the progress we've made so far.
Here's a pic I posted on IG yesterday....DD has been stubbornly refusing the potty for the past couple of days, but will happily put her "baby" on the potty then run over to tell me "baby peed! her needs cookie"
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@oliviaoblivia: Dylan pooped outside the other day
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Tiptoeing into this thread.
Summary: H is almost 22 months old and will tell us when she has pooped or peed and then demands to have her diaper changed. We purchased a potty seat for the toilet and have had minimal success getting her to sit on it and actually do something, even if she tells us she has to pee/poop. Usually, she waits until she's in a diaper or she pees on the floor during naked time (after bath).
I'm hesitant to start potty training now because there is no bathroom in her room at daycare, but I'm working on getting her used to it at home. She moves up in October and then we can begin potty training in earnest.
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@Mrs Green Grass: she announced it too. "Mom going to poop outside". What a weirdo.
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@avivoca: we should be training in sept/oct as well. I think he's ready but I'll wait for daycare to do potty training week for the help.
he knows where the potty is and how to make himself pee so I think we're close and I don't want to miss his readiness
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Another day with no accidents at day care but he seems to be constipated! Hasnt pooped in over 2 days... Keeps saying he has to and then just passed gas..
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D tried so hard to poop today before nap and then went right after I left the room. I get bad because he really wanted a poop prize!
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@travellingbee: wow! He is doing great. Try giving him some fiber.
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@Smurfette: he pooped! The biggest poop ever!!! Lol!
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@travellingbee: seriously amazing how much comes out of them! Can you come train R?
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@Smurfette: aw I'm sorry she's being difficult... I'm worried he'll regress too. It's still early days. But his teachers are all impressed so far that he's been doing better than the kids who've been working on it for weeks. He just decided he was ready...
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We have poop on the potty!!!!! So now I'm baking brownies at 7:30pm. He was so scared to let it come out, but he did it!
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@Mrs Green Grass: yay!!
Two amazing/awkward quotes from this morning:
--LO wanted to come in the shower with me so I said OK. Pointing at my privates, he says "Why's your peepee got hair on it?" Oy.
--I asked if he needed to pee because he kept grabbing his junk. He says: "no, mamma, I just touching it". Oh, I see. So freedom from diaper means easier access to touch himself. What a boy! -
@Mrs Green Grass: hooray D!!!!!
So L has always been good at holding her bladder. As good as that sounds it's making potty training difficult. She has swim class every day before lunch and pees in the pool every day. We get at best three pees on the potty, sometimes only two. She's now filling her diaper overnight where she had been dry overnight for ages. I feel like we're not getting enough chances at bat for this to stick. She'll just hold out until swim class or her nap or bedtime.
She's been pooping after her nap too, like immediately after waking up before I can make it up the stairs to rip her diaper off and get to the bathroom.
We've only had the one pee accident and no poop accidents but she's just putting off her functions until she's diapered.
Do I have to nap and night train now to get over this?
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@travellingbee: boys and their peckers. So funny!
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@oliviaoblivia: what are you doing for reward?
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@Mrs Green Grass: gold coin chocolates for pee and a grand prize of a Starbucks cake pop after ten pees. Stickers on her chart too.
For poops she gets a Frozen lip balm (her pick) and after ten poops a frozen doll. She's really into her prizes but for some reason not totally motivated.
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Joining! 2.5 year old twins...have started three day method three times before but given up fairly quickly due to exhaustion, sudden illness and other dramas. Started this morning again with just one twin on the advice of other twin mommies. So far so good...one pee accident in undies, one pee in potty and two poops in potty. He was so scared to poop but I read "Everyone Poops" over and over while he sat there and it really relaxed him. He has been ripping off his diaper upon waking and often before falling asleep and he says he doesn't want to wear them anymore. Twin brother: not ready, doesn't have ugh sense of when he's going, has a meltdown when you mention the potty. I'm hoping to get one trained and then hopefully monkey see, monkey do, like everything else is with twins! How many other twin mamas are on here--enough to do a second support thread? It's certainly a unique challenge.
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Major progress today!!
Four unprompted pees and a valiant poo effort (she sat there for half an hour farting and trying). I think it's finally clicking!
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