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Feel like a potty training failure :(

lolalillielolalillie
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For the past two months DS was fully potty trained.  He would have an accident here and there but nothing major.  I thought wow, we have this!

Two weeks ago I got sick (my Mom watched DS for two days) and it ALL went downhill.  First, he stopped pooping on the potty, then he stopped peeing in the potty.  I kept trying to talk to him, I rewarded him, at times I grew frustrated (which is totally not his fault but it is hard not to get frustrated sometimes) and nothing worked!  He is not the type of kid that you have sit on the potty every few minutes or so because he FREAK out.  If I try and get him to go and he does not want to it causes WWIII.  As much as I did not want to, I put him back in diapers today.   We tried pull-ups and underwear and at this point, I think it is best to just take potty training off of the table and re-visit it.

I feel such immense pressure to have him trained before he begins preschool next year.  The school is amazing, he is in the days we wanted, with the teacher we wanted, but the only hitch is that he has to be potty trained.  I know we have a long time until September but he is so stubborn I am just not sure what will happen.  I know it is not the end of the world but I feel like such a complete and utter failure!

It took over four years to be diagnosed with PCOS. We TTC #1 for 18 months, did 5 rounds of Clomid and finally moved onto IVF...which worked! Throughout our IF journey, we suffered 3 miscarriages. We conceived both DD and DS without treatment.
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Re: Feel like a potty training failure :(

  • MouseygailMouseygail member
    Just sending you some hugs...potty training seems like one of the bigger stresses in parenting.  ((((HUGS))))
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  • LoveMyGirlzLoveMyGirlz
    I think  you're right, I'd just backoff and revisit it later. Potty training is one of the ways they feel they have control (as well as eating and bedtime) so I'd just treat it as no big deal and I bet soon he'll want to be potty trained again, cuz he's not getting the attention anymore. GL! I know it's frustrating, especially cuz he was already trained.
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  • howleyshellhowleyshell member

    With the time pressure you're under you may want to put underwear under the diapers so he continues to be aware when he's wet but you don't have to deal with non-stop clean up.

    Regression is tough.

    I'm sorry you're feeling so much pressure.  

    Our IF journey: 1 m/c, 1 IVF with only 3 eggs retrieved yielding Dylan and a lost twin, 1 shocker unmedicated BFP resulting in Jace, 3 more unmedicated pregnancies ending in more losses.
    Total score: 6 pregnancies, 5 losses, 2 amazing blessings that I'm thankful for every single day.
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  • sweetpea18sweetpea18 member
    We had a huge regression, too. The frustrating thing for us was she is accident free at school, but wouldn't go at home. I just kept putting her in her big girl undies and when she would wet her pants, she had to 'clean' herself up. I would take her into the bathroom, make her sit on the potty chair and she had to change her own clothes. She then had to take the dirties to the laundry. It was fun to her at first, but then got real annoying when she had to stop playing, coloring, etc. It's just been this week that she's started peeing on the potty again. Hang in there, he'll get it. And you are not a failure!
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