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Potty training and special needs
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I'm really conflicted over this. My daughter is pretty clearly physiologically ready to potty train. She stays dry for long periods during the day. She goes to the bathroom very little overnight and even wakes up dry at times. Every morning she pees in her diaper to the point she fills it all at once, takes off her pants, diaper, then walks the dirty diaper over to me usually while I'm prepping breakfast/meds. Lol. She also has an interest in the toliet-she follows me to the bathroom and rips me off some tp every time i go to the bathroom. ha. On the other hand her communication skills are weak-even with sign sometimes she walks over to me to request something and you can tell the wheels are turning but she's thinking of what way to position her hands. I really don't like the idea of training young even if she were nt but part of me keeps thinking of this routine and thinks its foolish she's still wearing diapers.
Any insight from those who have btdt?
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Re: Potty training and special needs
Have you tried sitting her on the potty a few times and seeing what happens?
She's pretty young, so I don't know that I'd push it, but if she's showing interest and is staying dry I don't see any reason for going with it - at least introducing the process and seeing how she does in a no pressure, stress fee way.
Especially in the morning if she's going around the same time and going a lot - see if you can't get her to make the correlation to the potty.
If she's indicating so many signs, I don't see how it could possibly hurt to at least start getting her on the potty first thing in the morning.
I wouldn't push it, but it seems like a good thing to follow her lead and see where it goes. We took a long, slow approach with my DD1 (ASD) and it involved a lot of two-steps-forward, one-step-back, but it suited her better than something cold-turkey.
DD1, 1/5/2008 ~~~ DD2, 3/17/2010
you know, I was always planning to wait until she was 100% ready and do it all at once since we had so much success doing that with ds. With Dds learning style we might be better off doing it the long, slow way. Definitely going to try putting her on the potty tomorrow morning. Thanks for the insight.
DD potty trained a few,onths ago. Her expressive language is delayed and what I would call odd lol! For example she will say : much enjoyment to go pee pee? That is how she asks to go lol!
I had to train myself as much as her. I have to ask every few hours, more like every 30 min in the beginning. I cannot rely on her to always tell me. She doesn't have accidents but will hold it until we ask or lead her to the bathroom. Now we have a pretty reliable schedule as to when she needs to go.
I just felt at her age, just turned 4, even though she wasn't maybe 100 percent able to communicate her needs, her wearing diapers was setting her apart. She goes to a typical preschool and she was the only one. A few little kids have commented at the park, etc.
how old is the your daughter? A book we used was the potty journey, it was helpful. Good luck. You can always try and if it doesn't work, try again in a few months.
Olivia Kate is almost 4!
Diagnosed with autism this year and doing great!