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XP: Potty training ?s
My daughter is 2 1/2 years old. She has sat on the potty with no diaper, but has never peed or pooped in the potty. We've talked a lot about the potty and what it's for, and she sees me go all the time. I've emptied dirty diapers in the potty and let her flush, which she thinks is fun.
Today I knew she needed to poop, so I took her
to the potty and she sat there for awhile and didn't go, and not 5
minutes after she comes running to me and says Mommy, change my diaper
please? She'd pooped, of course. Ugh. We've had similar experiences
with pee, where as soon as I take her off the potty, she pees in the
floor.
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Re: XP: Potty training ?s
I haven't even started trying with DS, who is also 2.5. My mom says that both my brother and I were trained at about 2 years, 9 months. So that's when we'll start the process.
DS - December 2006
DD - December 2008
I'm going to go with she's just not ready. She might be ready in 2 weeks, or 6 months. You never know, but I think when they're ready, it's pretty easy. IMO, forcing it will just cause regressions later on.
My daughter is 2.5 and extremely bright, and she has been in underwear for a week several times, but just regresses and refuses to pee or poop in the potty. She's just not ready, I guess. I would rather change diapers until they're 3 or shortly after 3 and have them PT in a matter of a couple days like my son than fight over it. I was getting stressed out by DD not PTing but I realized it just wasn't worth the stress and let her choose if she wants diapers or panties. She'll do it eventually.
Oh, lordy. I would venture a guess that your mom is rewriting history a bit with her PTing stories. I wouldn't listen to her if I were you. To be in underwear at 12 months is a bit far-fetched, IMO. IDK, maybe it's possible, but it's certainly not the norm by any stretch of the imagination.
It just sounds like she's not ready yet. Try not to stress about it.
Alex (11/14/06) and Nate (5/25/10)
"Want what you have, do what you can, be who you are." - Rev. Forrest Church
My mom also claims I was pt shortly past my first birthday. I've heard other such claims from that generation. I think that their version of pt and our version of pt is vastly different (think lots of accidents that they were cleaning up!)
DS showed signs of being ready before he turned two....but he was only a couple weeks shy of 3 before I would safely say he was pt. It's true that they do it in their own time. Keep doing the things you're doing...but I'm telling you-one day it just clicks in their little heads and that's it! good luck!
My dd was the same way last month. We tried for three full days and still nothing. So, we quit for a month and tried again. We are going on day 2 with no pee accidents. Now if I could only get her to use the potty at the sitters we would be in good shape.
During the month break, we just sat on the potty before bathtime without stressing about it. She came to me two days ago and said "i need to pee pee on the potty." I put her on the pot and she went, I was shocked. I took her off and asked her if she wanted panties on and she said yes. I still have to take her to the pot every so often, but so far so good.
Good luck!