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Potty training help!

LauriekeenerLauriekeener member
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Hi ladies, my son is 2 and I am 8 months pregnant. This is my second round of potty training. Some say it's too early some say it's not. My son tells me when he needs a diper change so I figured I would try again. My first attempt was going up to the potty with books I would read he would sit on his potty. He did pee twice this way. I rewarded him with lots of praise and stickers. I never pressured him he was about 18 months. I was just trying to introduce it and see what happened. Then I was trying to get him to sleep on his own at night without me laying with him so I stopped the potty training as your not suppose to do 2 major things at once. Now that I have that accomplished I figured I would try again. This is day 3. No peeing in potty only on the floor.. I have tried no pants or only pants no diper. I have books about going potty from the library that we read everyday. My question is am I doing this right, has anyone else done something with success. I fully realize that he could just not be ready and I'm fine with that. I just thought if he is ready that would be great since I'll be having another baby in dipers. If anyone has any advice I would greatly appreciate it!
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  • LauriekeenerLauriekeener member
    Ok thank you so much!
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  • ChelsiAnn13ChelsiAnn13 member
    edited August 2013
    We are potty training now, my dd just turned 2 a few days ago and we are about a week, week and a half in. We used the three day method ( I just read the baby center free version and read what others did to get my own ideas). This officially started it off. I actually began sitting in the bathroom with her beore bed, dancing, reading books, and blowing bubbles while she sat on the potty. When she started to have an accident I grabbed her and put her on the potty. When she got some in the potty we went crazy celebrating. That happened about three days, we talked all a out potties, how we tell mommy when she had to go and all that, then we went on vacation. Even on vacation she told me twice she had to go potty and she did try!

    I had picked a specific day to start once we got back from vacation and we went naked and did the three day methods, dancing, stickers, everything when she got anything in the potty. I also would ask her to try every hour or two and praise her for just trying. Within the first day she was getting te hang of it. We just went from there, worked/ working on it with undies and how to push them down, and now we are working on telling me ahead of time and going while out of the house.

    Good luck, sounds like your LO is ready I he was telling you he needs to be changed. Are you rushing him to the potty mid accident when you see it happening? If not that is my guess why it isn't working yet. He may need help connecting the two.
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  • LauriekeenerLauriekeener member
    Yes actually he started peeing on the floor and I quickly put him on the potty. I made a huge deal and told him how awesome it was he was all excited. I will see how tomorrow goes! Thank you for your advice
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  • jgregory1128jgregory1128
    My daughter was born when my son was two, so I pushed the potty training also.  The best advice I received was to take two to three months off and then try again.  It worked and he was potty trained shortly after my daughter was born.  Good Luck!
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    Ok thank you!
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  • meg1974meg1974 member
    The best advice I received when potty training was to wait until their are ready. And by that, I don't mean little signs of readiness here and there, but full on 100% ready. It was difficult for me to hear that advice b/c I wanted to push her along. But, it was true. And, when I did wait until she was ready, the training was very quick and easy.


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  • erbearerbear member
    Not ready. Plus, not worth it; it'll be a bigger pain to have him kinda but not really potty trained with a new baby, and he'll likely regress anyway. Wait a few months and try again.
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  • lanelle09lanelle09

    loved reading this. I will have to take this advice soon as my son just turned 2. He knows the potty and has gone both pee and #2 on it so it is only a matter of time. I am not pressuring him though, he will tell me or give me more signs of being ready.

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