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JulySpark05
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Potty Training: How long did it take?
JulySpark05
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I started potty training DD a few weeks ago with pull ups but since she wasn't telling me she needed to go and I was the one telling her to go on the potty, I started putting her in underwear last week.
It went well, she would start going in her underwear and then hold it and tell me she needed to use the potty so then she would finish on the potty. Then on the fourth day (yesterday) she told me she needed to use the potty before she had an accident. She peed and then later on again did the same thing with telling me and not having an accident and she pooped on the potty! I am so proud of her but obviously know that she will still have accidents on our potty training journey, lol but wondering now how long it took most of you to have your child potty trained once they started recognizing they needed to use the potty?
I'm not comfortable in letting her wear underwear while we are out yet but I also don't want to hinder any progress we have made...
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Re: Potty Training: How long did it take?
You'll probably get a lot of anti pull up answers so I'll start b/c I'm not anti pull up, though I did go straight to underwear & only used pull ups when we were going out for a while maybe in the first week and at nap/bedtime.
DD took about 2 weeks for me to give up the pull ups during the day & somehow PTed herself overnight in 4 weeks, I wasnt expecting that but after 4 days of dry AM pullups I asked if she wanted to take off the pullup at night, she said yes, we were done. She was also about 2 1/2.
DS (they're twins) is a different story, we have just started successfully PTing at 3 yrs 3 months and now at 3 yrs 5 months he is still only going when we tell him, we dont do pull ups except nap & night and places where an accident would be bad (eg the gym daycare where they will not clean up accidents or help you at all) but he has been a long road to even get ready & not easy to train once he was interested.
Every kid's different, your LO sounds like she is doing fine!
Thanks for replying = ) Since you mentioned potty training at night, did you stop liquids a certain time before bed or she just held it? DD drinks quite a bit before bed and sometimes will wake up at night for a drink. Either way, she always has a FULL diaper in the morning so I'm thinking we won't night train for a while..
No, she still to this day has a straw cup of water in her room at night if she wants it. It just turns out she has a bladder of steel- she never had a massively full diaper in the AM anyway though, she doesnt drink as much later in the day as her brother who I think will probably take a very long time to overnight train regardless. She HATES going in public and will no lie hold it all day long if she has to without accidents as a result (though thankfully she goes fine at daycare and it is rare that we're anywhere ALL day long since they still nap some days).
I have heard a lot that there are kids who have sensory differences in their bladders- a good friend has a first grader who just recently was overnight trained after trying everything (finally some sort of 'alarm' in the underwear which I have never heard of before & don't really know how it works) & as it turns out, she herself wet the bed into the school aged years as did her brother so she thinks maybe it was an inherited thing.
We did the 3 day potty training method with DD right before she turned 2. She was pretty well potty trained by day 3 (she knew when she had to go). It will probably take a little longer with pull ups though. I tried using them for awhile (car rides and gym childcare) but DD treated them like diapers and had no problem going in those if she didn't want to stop what she was doing.
We tried potty training when DD was around age 2. It took about 3 separate tries before it started to click. So she was probably closer to age 2 1/2 before she was really going consistently (#1 ) on the potty. We packed up all of her diapers and gave them away. We limit her drinking in the evenings. She used underwear during the day (yes, we went through quite a few at first.) She used pullups at night for about 2 weeks, but she was staying dry. I asked her if she wanted to wear underwear at night instead and she said yes. She has been going #2 on the potty here at home for about a month. (She turned 3 in Sept.) So it's taken quite a while for her to understand that part of it.
I think for DD is was definitely that she wasn't recognizing that she needed to go, especially when it came to going #2. Plus she was so excited to be at preschool and distracted and didn't want to miss out on the fun (by leaving to go to the potty.) She seems to have gotten the hang of it, though.
My opinion is that I would let her wear the underwear, even if you're out. You may be giving her mixed messages if you put her in pull ups sometimes and underwear at other times.
DS1: started at 2y6m; did naked bum at home for about a month (great success); then short outings out in underwear for about a month, then sent him to daycare in underwear (lots of accidents in first 2 weeks) then done; so 3 months give or take and pretty painless.
DS2: he started taking his diaper off and using the potty himself around the age of 2.5; then it was back and forth we me pushing the agenda for a few months alternating with backing off completely; then he just turned a corner right around the age of 3 (I had little to nothing to do with it, he just decided one day and that was pretty much it).
Tried 3 day PT at 25 months since she was physically ready. Big fail. Then no mention of potty but lots of naked time (with only a handful of accidents, she would usually wait for diaper).
At 26 months she decided she was ready herself and started using the potty on her own (as in she would tell me when she needed to go because she still needed help) pretty much from one day to the next. It was in the middle of our vacation so I did not even have underwear but she was naked the entire time we were home and in diapers only when sleeping or when out and about (and she would actually be dry). 4 days later were were home and sent her to daycare in udnerwear and did great. I had her in diapers only at night and after 2 weeks she did not want those anymore. She has done great.
We did have a little but of regression a couple of weeks ago (but only at home because she did not want to stop what she was doing and doesn't like to eb told to go pee. At daycare she doesn't mind...) and she had more accidents in thsoe 2 weeks then the eintire 4 months prior (she would have 1-2 partial pee accidents a day for about a week).
Once she was in underwear I did not put her in diapers at all (except at night for a couple of weeks). She had one accident in the car about a week in but that was it (and I have one of those pads for the car seat so it was not a big deal).
I think it varies greaty from kid to kid. My kid did not want to sit on the potty until she was ready to be done with diapers. Some kids are perfectly fine with starting to sit on the potty here and there and still be in diapers or pull ups as well.
Haha, thank you and yes! lol
Thanks for all the input ladies. I have to say that I agree with having her wear underwear only when we are home so that's what we've been doing but i've been putting her in pull ups when we are out since I don't yet have the piddle pad for the carseat but I should be getting it this week so I'll probably take the plunge and go diaper free. It works out pretty easily too since I am home on mat. leave.
She actually has only had one accident since Saturday and that included her being in a pull up at my parents house and at Church on Sunday morning and Sunday night. When she was wearing a pull up, she never once peed or pooped in it. She ended up pooping in her panties today and told us while she was doing it that she needed to go so she finished in the potty so I think we are doing pretty good and am happy with the progress = )
That's great that she did so well on her first day = ) Also very weird that they would of put her in pull ups when she naps for such a short period of time! Chances are she will stay dry for naps where its not very long. DD still naps for a good 2 hours in the afternoon and so far she's stayed dry for naps for about two weeks now so since I got the mattress cover today, I will take the pull ups away for nap times. I also got the piddle pad for the carseat today so have no excuse in putting pull ups if we go out now, lol, wish me luck!
DS was potty trained in 6 days. We went straight to underwear and did during the week between christmas and new years since we were all home.
I sent DS to daycare in underwear and I sent him with lots of changes of clothes.
He has done great. We use pull ups for naps, and diapers for bed time but thats it.
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