I could use some suggestions and help.  My daughter is 2 and a 1/2 years old.  She has some speech and lang delays.  I started potty training about 18-20 months, bought a potty ect.  She went a few times, and then started saying "no" so we stopped.  Now we started again.  I started taking her to the potty every 1-2 hours.  Sometimes we go and other times we don't, sometimes she be wet in her diaper and we miss the boat.  She really can't say se has to go. I do have an idea when she poops, we tried that, but she went in dipaer before we got to potty.  I m not sure what I am doing.lol  Should I do every 1-2 hours take her, do underware only and use diapers at night, or is she not ready?  It seems like a lot of work, this 1-2 hour thing and using a lot of diapers....My mom and others say she is ready, and not worry about if she can tell me.  But, I just want to do the right thing.  Thanks

Ok we just started potty training also so I'll give you the tips I got from other moms.  IF she really is ready then ditch the diapers while she is awake, we only use pullups at nap and bed times.  Take her to the potty every 10 to 15 minutes(before and after meals, before and after playtime, before and after nap, before bath, before bed, after she gets up).  WHEN she has a accident(cause it will happen OVER and OVER and OVER) dont' get upset(cause I'm sure she will) just reasure her that its ok but she needs to remember to tell you(in some way) that she needs to go.

What also works for us is I made him a potty chart that each time he actually goes in the potty he gets a sticker, and he gets very excited about picking out the sticker each time.  And every time he fills up his potty chart he gets a sucker or a prize of some sort.

ALSO what helped us was I let him pick out what underwear he wanted from the store and I have to keep reminding him that the cars didn't want him to pee pee on them so he needs to tell me when he needs to go.

A little story from the first day of our potty training....
Got Brandon up that morning and he would NOT let me put a diaper on so I said 'ok, want to wear some undies?' and he got excited nodding his head so I put a pair on him and he was so proud, he wouldn't let me put pants on him cause he wanted to be able to look down and see them.  With in 30 minutes he had peed in them and all over the floor and started crying, I cleaned up the mess and put another pair on him.  By naptime he had soaked ALL 6 pairs that had came in the pack of undies.  SO I washed and dryed them while he took a nap so when he got up he could wear them and he did and by bed time he had soaked all 6 again.  The next day was way better only soaking 2 that morning and the rest before bed.  Its only been a month since we started and he'll have maybe 1 accident a day...He still doesn't want to poop in the potty and SOOOO doesn't understand pooping vs farting which is kinda funny(another story all together).

Just ditch the diapers while shes up and go to the potty more often and I think she'll get it, it will take time but she'll get it.  It is so stressful trying to potty train for the parents just think about how stressful it is for the little ones.

Good Luck

Hi Girls,

my twins (B/G) are 2 years old and they are not potty trained. I also have a baby (6 months) and I don't know how to do potty training. My little boy is not interested in sitting in the potty at all. My little girl goes once a day before bath, but only peed twice.

It's hard to me to go that often with them to the potty and I have no idea what moms do when they ditch the diapers during the day in a house with carpet.

Thank you, Adriana

I have carpets though out my house and ditching the diapers I thought was going to be hard but really when he wet his diaper he didn't like it but dealt with it BUT when he wet his undies and floor he got upset and didn't want to do it again.  Ever since we started this roller coaster I just keep a few towels hidden away near by so incase he does have a accident I throw a towel on the wet spot and after I was done changing him I would go back and throw some baking soda on the spot and put a new towel on top. Then I just go over my carpets with a steam cleaner once a week.

Well if you don't ditch the diapers atleast use pull ups instead.  But taking them every hr or 2 is a bit long for a toddler to hold it, atleast try to take them every 1/2hr.  All I know is that for the kids I've been around when they were potty training the few that used pull ups it took longer to get it and the kids who wore undies or nothing at all got it alot quicker.

My son was too confused with using pull ups, he just thought that it was a diaper and he never thought twice about going in those but when he's wearing undies he knows that he needs to go to the potty.

I'm no expert by any means but these are just the tips I got and things that are working for us and friends of ours.

Thank you Amers for all tips.

It's good to know that pull ups could make the kid confused. I'll use undies.

For the carpets, did you use those products as Resolv?

well with our dog going outside to potty and bringing in dirt and or mud its easier for me to use the steam cleaner BUT we have used the resolve before and it works pretty good...I am about to test out the new resolve powder stuff to clean the carpets while my parents have my steam cleaner and see how it works and I'll let you know if its any good.

NOW I always feel like I need to warn people about any of the carpet cleaning products...spot cleaning is all well in good but if your WHOLE carpet is dirty then the spot you just cleaned is gonna look bleached unless you clean the WHOLE carpet.  I learned that when we were crate training our dog back in '05'

Amers did you try the resolve powder stuff? How did it work? Did you like it? I am curious as to wether or not it really works!

I did finally use it and it didn't work as well as I had hoped BUT it did clean my carpet a little.  I may have used it on too big of an area tho so that might be why it didn't clean as well as I would have liked.  I wouldn't mind buying it and using it again but not so long in between steam cleanings, The last time I steam cleaned was in Oct right before Halloween so it had been WAY too long between cleanings.  I finally got my parents to give back my steam cleaner so I plan to clean my carpets this weekend.

My son finally figured out the difference between gas and poop feelings and will now go poop in the potty.  I'm so proud of him and his potty training, He will now wake up in the mornings and yell 'PEEEEEEEE!' or 'MOMMY PEEEEEEE!' so I know he's up and wants to go pee pee in the potty.  We will be moving him into a big boy room this summer and I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited cause it will be Cars themed(which he picked out)