Potty Training HELP! and kind-of poll

Re: Potty Training HELP! and kind-of poll

• Moesten

  June 2011

  linzpinz14:

  1.  If you used a type of straight to underwear approach, how many days did you spend in the house before you left with LO? Day Three. We went to a friend's house for a play date. It was a place I could watch her like a hawk. We also did short runs to Kroger, pick up dry cleaning etc, in the first few days but I always had her go right before we left and when we came back. On Day Seven she went to school for 4 hours which was her longest stint out of the house in the first 7 days.   

  2.  If you used a type of straight to underwear approach, how long did it take before accidents were few and far between? 7-10 days. She had a set back at about 2.5 weeks but was solid at 3 weeks. 

  3.  How did you transition your LO from a potty chair to potty seat on the toilet to using a potty in public? We never used a potty chair. We just used the insert. I toted an insert around with me for the first week or so but that was unnecessary as she wasn't bothered by sitting on the toilet without an insert. (Thank you, God) 

  4.  When did your LO learn how to "hold it" rather than just letting it out? A few (3ish?) days.

  5.  When did your LO first tell you that he or she had to go potty, rather then you doing the prompting? I don't remember. Sorry.

  
  

  

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• hav2run

  June 2011

  linzpinz14:

  1.  If you used a type of straight to underwear approach, how many days did you spend in the house before you left with LO?  We tried this.  No dice.  What REALLTY worked wonders was a suggestion by DD's school teacher.  Put the underwear OVER a pull up.  I rolled my eyes.  Ummmm.  It worked.  Like a dream.  We had DD potty trained in 2 weeks.  Try it!
  

  2.  If you used a type of straight to underwear approach, how long did it take before accidents were few and far between?   We have had 2 accidents because DD did not ask to go in time.  No big deal, really.  She knew right away that she forgot to ask for the potty. 
  

  3.  How did you transition your LO from a potty chair to potty seat on the toilet to using a potty in public?  We tried right away.  DD HATES every public potty, and holds her biz until we get home to avoid the pubic (monster) potty.
  

  4.  When did your LO learn how to "hold it" rather than just letting it out?   We did not train for that.  It just happened.  See my panties over pull up response.  Try it.   It sooooo works, and I have no idea why.
  

  5.  When did your LO first tell you that he or she had to go potty, rather then you doing the prompting?  All along.  But we let her decide when to potty train.  I tried for a short while at 20  months to introduce the potty.  Hot mess.  So we let it go.  Introduced again at 31 months.  Easy easy.  She was ready, and it went so well.  Wait.  That is my advice.  No hurries.  Pull ups are easier.  Seriously.  Just wait until your LO is asking for the potty.  Then do the undies over the pull up for awhile.  It is so wild how fast they train when they are ready.
  

   

  Here is why I ask.  This is the end of day 4, straight to underwear approach.  Before Monday, I tried using a relaxed approach with her and just made sitting on the potty a fun experience at regular intervals through the day.  It didn't work.  She NEVER peed on the potty and after a couple weeks started running in the other direction at the mention of the potty.  So I quit doing that (it lasted for 1 week, 2 weeks ago) until we were ready for super training.

  She's had mostly successes on the potty.  Yesterday was the worst, I think she had 2 successes and 6 accidents.  But today she had no pee accidents and 1 poo, but all the rest were good.  I am ready to leave the house and so is she, but she is so unpredictable and I am doing all the prompting!  I also feel like she won't hold it unless I "catch" her at the right time and put her on the potty. 

  Overall, she is willing to go.  (Though there have been LOTS of times where she has sat there for awhile and I've had to keep bringing her toys to get her to stay on it.)  I am hoping that it is going to click more for her with the more successes that she has.  If not, I am not unwilling to stop for a bit and come back to PTing at a later date.  I am just trying to figure out how long I give it to "click".  I don't want to give up to soon, but I also don't want to frustrate her!  This PTing stuff is hard!

  
  
  

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• adamsbabble member

  June 2011

  1. If you used a type of straight to underwear approach, how many days did you spend in the house before you left with LO? I don't remember what day specifically.  I want to say that we were still leaving the house in pull ups for at least a couple weeks even after she was having zero accidents at home.  That had less to do with her though, and more to do with me wanting to avoid DH being unable to relax, because PT made him a nervous wreck at first.  I had just gotten him used to the idea of her not having a diaper on at home.  I have to move slowly with him with some things, lol.  Luckily, it didn't disrupt the success she was having at home to go back and forth between the pull ups in public and underwear at home.  When we did finally start going out in public, she did totally fine with it and was able to hold it if I couldn't get her to a bathroom right away.

  2. If you used a type of straight to underwear approach, how long did it take before accidents were few and far between? Pretty instantly, but I think it was because I waited for PT to be her decision.  We tried PT a couple times before that, and she wasn't having any of it.

  3. How did you transition your LO from a potty chair to potty seat on the toilet to using a potty in public? We went pretty quickly from the potty chair to the potty seat on the regular toilet.  It was just her preference.  In public, I would hold her over them in the beginning.  

  4. When did your LO learn how to "hold it" rather than just letting it out? Well, I can't be exactly sure but I think they are capable of holding it once they are consistently having zero (or very few) accidents.

  5. When did your LO first tell you that he or she had to go potty, rather then you doing the prompting? Right away, but again, PT was her choice.

  I will add that Ava was a little older than your DD when she finally PT... it was about a month before her 3rd birthday.  As I said before, we tried a couple other times between 2 and 3, and it just didn't happen until I backed off.  Once I decided to do that I left the potty out, asked if she would like to start going on the potty and wearing underwear, but I kept it low pressure.  One day she finally said yes!  Knowing what I know now, I plan to use the same approach with my other children because it made it soooo easy for everyone and she was PT within a couple days--I'm talking no accidents at all and she would go on her own without me prompting.  If you think you need to wait, that's totally fine.  It truly isn't a race and it will happen (even if it seems like it won't).

  Ava Caroline 8.27.07 I Charlotte Grace 5.18.09 I Lila Katherine 1.20.11
  
  

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