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More PTing Advice?
We did the 3day PTing back in late Sept-overall she has done great-she does have accidents on occasion. She was doing awesome lately-I think she had like 3wks without a single accident then last week it went down hill real fast. Friday she peed in our living room twice (once was right after I asked if she had to go and she said "no"), Sat she had an accident and today she had 3 accidents (2 at daycare, 1 home). I know we've had a lot of changes going on....moving early Nov, change to a big girl bed, holidays and now the baby is due in 2wks. I'm wondering if shes sort of stressed out about all of it or maybe is doing it because she knows the baby is soon? I guess I don't know what to do and I feel like I dont know how to handle the accidents now. At first with the 3 day method you just run them to the bathroom, but once they're trained they say you can "punish" or take away things. We've been taking away things from her if she has an accident (no Ipad videos for the day or no candy for a treat) but I dont know if its sinking in. Any advice?
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Re: More PTing Advice?
She's 2.5yrs...we did the 3day PTing when she was 27mos old.
I've heard about the 3 day PT thing.... A few of my friends have been pretty successful with it... I feel like PT is the most confusing thing ever... I feel like I have some people that say "OMG your kid isn't PT yet" and then other people that say "I'm not even thinking of PT until LO is 3 or so" .... I just feel a little lost.
Sorry your LO has had some regression... I would say it's probably because of all the changes and the new baby. But I don't quote me
I'm a PT newbie!
B has been PTed since last summer, but in the begining of Oct, she suddenly started having accidents at home and at school. On the third day, I took her to the Dr to rule out a UTI. Once we ruled that out I decided to put her back in pull-ups and let her decide when she wanted to wear underwear again. She wore a pull-up for about a week and was about 50/50 on using the potty and the pull-up. I didn't make any issue out of it, as I was pretty certain the peeing was an attempt to have control over something. After about a week she was done with it and wanted to wear her underwear again. I didn't make a big deal about it, pretended like I didn't care one way or another. At the end of the day she hadn't had any accidents so we all told her how proud we were of her for deciding to wear underwear like Ty, mom, and daddy again. She has never gone back to pull-ups and has only had one "accident" since, and that was really on purpose trying to make me mad. I just ignored it and cleaned it up.
She has so many changes going on, I am not sure I would take things away. I would probably try to be completely laid back about it and see if you can figure out why she is doing it. First though, I would probably rule out a UTI. Once that is ruled out, I would give her the choice of pull-ups or undies, I know they say never to go back, but that is such a general assumption, they don't take into account why kids may be regressing. I would guess it may be because so many changes are taking place in her life that she is trying to find something she has control over. I say let her have this control, and try to act like it doesn't matter much to you one way or the other. The baby is coming and I know this is probably the last thing you want to deal with, but once she feels like it is her choice she will most likely choose the potty and it will be one less battle for you. And make sure school is on the same page with how they react.