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@oliviaoblivia: We've had a shitty day! 3 poops in the pants before nap. But we were at my sister's house and I think it was all a little too exciting... BTW, those prizes sound awesome!
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@Mrs Green Grass: oh no! At least you've had poops? All I've gotten out of her today is a bunch of farts!
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She actually went poop on the potty today! I told her we needed to try and pee before swim, cause she wanted to wear her suit there, and after she peed, she said she needed to poop. Wanted to watch the poop song video. I went to get my phone and came back and she already went!
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@Smurfette: awesome! We are helping friends move today and he's had two accidents. He freaked out both times and stopped himself but not before getting wet.
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@travellingbee: well after swim I asked her if she needed to go, she said no, and then right after I get the pull up on, I peed in my pull up. Urg! Poor guy! At least he can stop himself!
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@Smurfette: yay! Which poop song video?
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@Mrs Green Grass: a friend sent it to me. It is really annoying but she likes it.
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Thanks!
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Update on halfway thru day 2 of 3-day method...LO woke up this morning and yelled that he needed the potty, so off to the potty he went. One pee accident in the morning, but DH caught him, he stopped, came to the potty and finished. He was playing outside and doing a new sensory activity so I think he was just too busy to notice? End of day 1 totals--2 pee accidents, 4 pees in potty and 2 poops in potty. It seems like it's going well but I'm not confident it will actually be done in 3 days. It seems like he goes fine when we "catch" him in time but when he gets busy playing he has no idea he has to go...
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This thread has helped inspire me to get started! DS is 29 months old. He has pooped on the potty 2x in his life and peed once at daycare. I ordered "Oh! Crap" for my Kindle tonight and hope to read it over, talk up the potty all week, and then get started on Thursday. Here goes!
In the meantime, I'll be cheering everyone else on!
@Smurfette: That video is kind of amazing. Ah, parenthood.
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We've had two perfect days in a row. Yesterday she peed six times unprompted and pooped once all on her own. Today five pees, one poop. It's like all of a sudden it clicked!
Fingers crossed this sticks!
@Eminthevalley: it was the fifth day for us when I felt like DD was an equal participant and not just going along with what I wanted her to do. Stick with it!
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@oliviaoblivia: thanks! I'm nervous because Monday and Wednesday are daycare days...
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We had another poop in the toilet tonight!!! But boy he did not want to...
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@travellingbee: haha yeah my son was constantly playing with himself when he was bottomless. He would pull on it and say "mommy it's stuck" lol! I told him it's attached to him like his nose.
@Mrs Green Grass: awesome!! How are you encouraging poop on the toilet? My son will not poop on the toilet. I think he knows he should be going on the toilet because he will go to another room and go in his pull up. ugh. We sit him on there a lot when we know he has to go. He once sat for an hour watching a video. We finally let him off and put a pull up on him and he pooped right away in the pull up. I'm not really stressing about it but not sure how to encourage him to poop on the toilet.
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Pee has been super easy. Dare I say he's potty trained for pee. He still will not poop on the toilet tho. He's in pull ups at all times because I don't want to clean poop underwear. And it doesn't seem to confuse him at all for peeing.
He tells me when he has to pee. He still prefers to stand and pee. lol Recently he likes to stand on the big toilet and squat down and pee into it. But he goes back and forth between his little potty chair and the big toilet. And we had our first experience with a public restroom. He actually told me he had to go and he actually went in the public toilet!
Now to just get him to poop in the toilet!!
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@Mrs. High Heels: same thing happened to us with A! He was doing so well with pee for a couple of weeks. Then he got sick and we put him in diapers because he had diarrhea. We had to go back to being completely bottomless and he picked it right back up in a day. How's he doing now that he's not sick?
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@mrskc: he's fine with saying he needs to poop but it's super hard for him to do it on the toilet. Both times he's wanted to leave the bathroom and he gets really agitated. That's how I know it's close. I've had to force him to sit and then cheerleader the poop out! At that stage it's happened pretty quickly. I think just hanging in the bathroom but not sitting on the potty the whole time may help it get closer and closer. Ed also really motivated by his "poopy prizes."
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Ugh DS woke up at 11:30 last night freaking out because he had to pee. I told him through the monitor to just go in his diaper and he was screaming no so I had to wake up, go help him take off his diaper and get on the potty. Then he was wide awake. Man, I was hoping he'd wear diapers at night for a while. I do t want to get up at night for him to pee!!
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@Mrs Green Grass: so he finally pooped on the potty yesterday! It took three hours of on and off sitting on the toilet. We read stories, watched videos, listened to music. He would get off and play and say he needed to go but wouldn't push it out. He went to play outside and my DH put the little potty out there and he finally went! I had promised him ice cream so I had to take him out to get ice cream. lol But then later, while i was taking a shower, dh wasn't watching him very closely and he pooped in his pull up. Hopefully we can get him to do it a few more times and it will click.
@travellingbee: that happened once with DS for his nap. He slept like 20 minutes and woke up crying he had to go potty. Then he wouldn't fall back asleep.
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@travellingbee: annoying, but good for him I guess?! He sounds committed!
L has been perfect since Thursday. Last night baby sister woke up around eight and L was still awake. She bursts into the nursery and says "gotta pee mommy!" So I put the (screamy) baby down and go help her use the bathroom. DH was working on something downstairs so L just went to her room and was playing. I come out of the nursery and DH tells me that he came upstairs and found her on the big toilet by herself pooping. So I guess after going #1 with me she wasn't done and went back herself. I'm so beyond shocked that she did it herself, got her step stool from her room and dragged it to the bathroom to get on the big potty. All of a sudden she's such a big girl!
We're back to our normal schedule tomorrow with swim class and then a play date in the afternoon. I'm nervous to be out of the house with her for so long but we have to start somewhere.
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@oliviaoblivia: wow! That's fantastic!
@mrskc: sounds like he and Dylan are in the exact same place. Hopefully it'll be quick.@travellingbee: I have the same fear! But good for him kinda?
We are starting at big boy no diaper preschool tomorrow. Dylan had an accident and then pooped on the floor of our new house last night. But I'm cautiously optimistic...
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@Mrs Green Grass: how did it go?
L pooped in a public potty today at lunch!!! I was so impressed with him we went out for ice cream! (At 18 weeks pregnant I wanted the ice cream anyway!)
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@travellingbee: I've been stalking you guys to get up courage in a couple months to do this potty-training thing. Anyways, about your 11:30 pee-call, my SIL and BIL did a "dream-pee" right before they went to bed. They'd get their daughter up to pee around 10, and she'd go right back to sleep after. It might be something to try if your LO needs to go at night often.
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@travellingbee: it was okay. I left him there all day and he had two accidents. But the place made me feel much better about accidents (as in they expect them). But he's on two days in a row of only pooping in the potty! It takes a lot of work on my part but tonight he started dancing around and I said it looks likes you have to poop and he up and ran to the potty! So that was cool.
How's everyone else doing?
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@Grace: oh that's a good idea.
thanks
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We are doing great in the pee department but DS is adamantly refusing to even try pooping on the potty. He has never used the small potty, preferring the small seat on top of the big seat, so I'm not sure if that has something to do with it? I've heard that having their feet touch the floor is helpful so I may try to push the small potty a bit more and see if he will try it.
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I think I can almost call her potty trained.
We were out for six hours yesterday - errands, play date, subway.... A lot of inconvenient bathroom places. She was dry all day and used the washroom twice at her friends house. First time was at my insistence and the second time she just disappeared into the bathroom on her own. Last night she pooped in the potty while I put DD2 to bed. I came down the stairs thinking the dog had gotten into the garbage because my house reeked! But it was the most glorious and revolting poop in the potty. She's been dry for naps and bedtime too but I'm not ready to risk no diaper yet.
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@bushelandapeck: We have a step stool so she can get on the potty. We didn't even try a small potty, I don't want to clean it, and day care uses a small regular. But when she is sitting on it, her feet can sit on the stool if she wants. Maybe try that?
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@bushelandapeck: for us, standing around the bathroom until he's really close works best. I also put the stool right next to the toilet, but he can't really rest his feet on it.
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@Smurfette: @Mrs Green Grass: Thanks! I think I'll try putting the stool closer. We only have one right now and need to get a second one for the bathroom he uses most often. Hopefully it will help!
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@bushelandapeck: We have two in one bathroom. One for the sink and one for the potty.
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So after that one poop on the potty, he hasn't done it since. Just poops in his pull up. He is currently bottomless and I know he has to go. He keeps saying he has to go and sits on the potty but won't poop. Gets scared and holds it in. ugh. Going on 3.5 hours of this and my patience is melting away.
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@Mrs Green Grass: I know I'm responding way late to you from page 1, but I totally think he has control...but he just doesn't think about it. Last night, DH caught him peeing in the tub and immediately told him to stop, then put him on the potty. He peed like 4 or 5 times, starting and stopping...so clearly he has control over it.
On the contrary, I don't think he cares if he's wet. We were at my ILs on Sunday, and we left him there in the afternoon while we did a bunch of shopping that we needed to do without him. I changed him right before we left at noon, and they didn't change him the entire time he was there (don't get me started on how 3 adults couldn't remember to change the diaper of a toddler in 5 hours), and when we got back at 5, I put him on my lap and his diaper was huge and shorts were totally soaked through...so much so that he was dripping. So gross. But it didn't seem to bother him.
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Day 1 was rougher than I expected. He peed the first two pees of the day on the potty....Awesome! I thought we were in the clear. He then peed 9 times around the house and started saying, "I don't like the potty." He also pooped on the stone walkway to our house (sorry, neighbors!) when I took him outside for two minutes to take out the trash.
I guess the good news is that he didn't want to sit on the potty at all before today, and this was the first time he had peed on the potty at home. I guess that's progress? But if things don't improve in the next two days, we make have to pack up and try again later.
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Joining this thread! DD is 2.5 and shown signs of readiness. She's sat on the potty and peed before and we've read books and watched videos and she knows she gets a treat (m&m) if she goes.
Well my mom is here staying with us (I just had DD2!) and is really excited and motivated to train her! (Great mom right!?) This is day 3 of putting her in undies and nothing else and asking her if she needs to go. She's been chugging diluted juice to fill her bladder but SHE WON'T GO ON THE POTTY! She will hold it and hold it and after repeated times of asking if she needs to go (answer is always no) and actually putting her on the potty (and reading to her, etc) she will just pee in her undies on to the floor. Sigh. So maybe she isn't ready?!
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@Ginabean3: I would try doing no undies. Just naked bottom. They seem to catch themselves better that way.
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@2PeasinaPod: d doesn't mind being wet either, by he has gotten used to telling me right away...
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@Ginabean3: We are also training this week (yay to potty training with a newborn) and are doing bottomless. It was too much for her to fuss with the concept of pulling down underwear too. We are having much better luck with bare bum.
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@oliviaoblivia: I never did a diaper for naps, but after 3 nights of dry diapers when we first started I just ditched the diapers completely. Didn't want them to be a safety net down the road. She has yet to have an accident in bed and we started exactly a month ago.
@mrskc: My patience is gone. She was going perfectly for weeks and all this week has been having poop accidents. I feel like she is doing it on purpose. She is going through a growth spurt (aka eating a ton) so she is going more frequently as well. UGH.
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Mini cupcake bribery is working well to get him to poop in the potty. He's gone a couple more times. And we've found it's best to leave him completely bottomless so he doesn't have the pull up to poop in. I think he's starting to get the hang of it.
@Radish: that sucks!!! This is my fear. I'm worried he will do really well then regress. I didn't realize potty training could be such a process!
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