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XP- Potty training

FinnishPrincessFinnishPrincess
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I am hoping other working moms can help - most of the advice that I got from my "real life" friends came from stay at home moms... 

My daughter (24 months) has taken an interest to sitting on the potty ALL THE TIME. She wants to sit on it, but won't actually go; she will pee or poop usually within minutes of sitting on the toilet and then come to us to either 1) request a diaper change or 2) ask to go back on the potty. So although I wasn't planning on training her until this summer, I feel like I should strike while the iron is hot...

- so, any suggestions to actually get her to pee ON the toilet? Not on the floor next to the toilet?? or in her diaper?

- any resources/books that you would recommend?

- When I know she is about to go to the bathroom, (after lunch) do I make her stay on the toilet until she goes, or do I "let" her have an accident to make her feel the wetness on her legs? (we sat on the toilet today for about an hour after lunch - by her request initially, and then I asked her to stay there for a little bit longer so that she would go - finally she got off the toilet, put on a pull up, and within 2 minutes, she came back to "go potty" with a wet training pant...)

I also work 3 days a week, so staying at home for a solid week with no pants on just potty training won't really work

I don't know what to do - I had not prepared for this at all since I was thinking I still had at least one more month to get ready - and here we are. any help is greatly appreciated! TIA!

 (sorry this is so long!)

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Re: XP- Potty training

  • jlw2505jlw2505 member

    I might not be much help.  My DD who will be 3 next month has been trained for about a month or two now.  At around age 2, she started wanting to sit on the potty but only with her diaper on.  This went on for months before she would sit on it with nothing on.  We never pushed and always just let her take the lead and would read books and such when she was on the potty.  It was hot and cold - sometimes she was very into it and others, not so much.  A fun book that I can't remember the name of that we used a ton was a book that has potty songs made from nursery rhymes.  It is so funny.  Daycare worked with her and the other kids a ton.  At diaper changes, all the kids that showed interest would go sit on the potty.  For a good few months, she would pee on the potty once or twice a day a few times a week but mainly at daycare.  Back in Nov, we decided to try and push her along and it back fired so we backed away and then in Feb she started telling us right after she had gone and would want a new diaper and and she started going more regularly at school and also stareted going at home some of the time.  A few weeks after that, early March - she was ready and woudl tell us when she needed to go, started staying dry at naps and most nights as well.  We ordered cotton training pants as I really don't like pull-ups but while we were waiting for them to arrive, my DD started pulling off her diapers and it was a pain so we put her in Easy-Ups during the day and it was like magic - she started going on the potty at home and at school a ton.  Her training pants (Potty Patty's) came the next week and she wore those and would have an accident or two a day.  She did great at night - would wake up if needed to go and call for us.  We kept her in easy ups at night for about a month or two.  After a week of the Potty Patty's we went to different training pants and she had less accidents and then a week after that, she was in big girl undies.  2 months later - she rarely has accidents and has only had 1 nighttime accident.

    My big advice is to follow her lead and make sure you and daycare are doing the same thing.  We did a reward system only once she was actually going in the potty on a regular basis - 1 Skittle for pee and 2 for poop.  We did those until just this past weekend.  We also had a set back for poops so we did a special reward chart with that - a star per day that she pooped in the potty or didn't poop (aiming for no poop in the undies) and on each Sunday, she got a big reward (fun gardening stuff that we had already gotten to give her).  Worked great and she has not had a poop accident in over 5 weeks.

    Jenni Mom to DD#1 - 6-16-06 DD#2 - 3-13-08 
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  • Mango2Mango2

    My DD just turned 2 and is interested in the potty, but I'm not pushing her on it; I'm just taking her lead, letting her use it when she wants. I do usually ask her at each diaper change if she wants to sit on the potty. If she starts passing gas a lot, I'll also ask if she wants to use the potty. Outside of that, I take her lead.

    Her daycare also asks at each diaper change if she wants to use the potty.

    I'd recommend you talk to your child care provider so that you are doing the same thing consistently on the days you work. I've found that has really helped to keep her interested.

    She also comes in the bathroom with me 90% of the time so sees what Mommy is doing, which I think is what sparked the interest in the first place.

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