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| Hello, my daighter is 2 1/2 and we started at this age also, then we had some house guest move in and she got distracted so about a month ago at 30 months she started doing pee pee on the potty, and now does it like 3 times a day and when she does she gets a piece of candy, she has only pooped once, and most of the time she tells me when she has to go pee pee potty, I never force her I don't want to push her, she does wear pull ups still and I think by the time she is 3 she will be fully trained. Your headed in the right direction, good luck. |
| posted by charise on 11/03/2008 02:04 PM
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My cousin just potty trained her 3 yr old, after plenty of attempts. Your story sounds alot like hers!!
I hear from a lot of people that kids just take a long time to poop in the potty. So yes! All of that is normal!
I can't get my 2-1/2 year to do anything with the potty but sit on it with the lid down. So, your off to a great start! |
| posted by Felicity on 11/03/2008 04:03 PM
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| Don't RISH it. She will do it when she is ready. 21 months is stil really young. The pooping usually comes last anyway. My daughter is almost 3. She is Pee pee potty trained, but not yet pooping. We use "big girl underwear" Gives her a sense of being a big girl. Plus when she goes potty she gets something special. Try underwear. Read potty books. Don't stress about the poop thing though. She's not going to do it until she is really ready. Good luck! |
| posted by Danielle on 11/03/2008 04:59 PM
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Thank you for the advice so far. I have another question though; do you change the pull-ups every time there is an acciddent (pee-pee), or do you put them back on? Are they as absorbent as diapers are, and if so, what is the difference in using pull-ups, other than ease of pulling them off and on?
Thanks again! |
| posted by lorena on 11/03/2008 05:32 PM
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| I am currently potty training my son, he is 2 1/2, he does really well with peeing in the potty. We set a timer for 30 minutes, my son has even learned to reset it himself. If I didn't do this we would forget and have accidents. He is pretty much a regular pe'er after only 2 weeks with the helpful reminder of the timer. Pooping is a whole other story, no successes yet, he has gone in his underwear several times, I just clean him up and try to explain to him and just hope it will come soon. I have a friend who's husband is a PA and she told me that he has explained it to her to be more psychological and will take a little more time. Just like with adults, most everyone, when they go poop, like to do it in their own home or somewhere they are comfortable. Adults even are uncomfortable doing it in their work place because most times it is a communal or community bathroom, so a lot of people will wait until they go home. So for children it is the same thing. I know my son when he goes, he is usually in his bedroom in the same place usually and he does it when no one is around, then for us to say okay now you are going to go in the potty with us watching, is a little different and intimadating. So it just takes more time on the pooping from what I understand. |
| posted by amy on 11/03/2008 07:46 PM
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Thanks Amy,
When you say "underwear" do you mean regular cotton ones or the pull-ups? This whole idea of pull-ups doesn't make sense to me. It seems like it would slow the process down because they still can't feel that they are wet as they would with just wearing underwear. I like the idea of the timer. Is it just a regular turn-like timer? |
| posted by lorena on 11/03/2008 09:10 PM
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| I think that pull-ups are a huge joke! They are just like diapers! I recently potty trained my 2 1/2 year old daughter and we went from diapers straight to big girl cotton undies, the only time she wears a pull-up or diaper is at bed time and nap time for now. We set the timer for 25 minutes for the first couple of days and when it would go off everyone who was around would get really excited and say it is pee pee time! and soon she got excited about it too! Then it was just a couple of weeks and we weren't using the timer anymore, she was just saying she had to go and going on her own!! She even poops in the potty, that didn't take her long either, I would just catch her when she was attempting to poop in her undies and put her on the potty! And she did protest a lot with that in the beginning, but I was consistent and told her if she pooped or pee peed in her big girl undies that they would have to go in the trash (which of course they don't!) and that just broke her heart and made her try extra hard to keep them clean and dry! She has special character undies that she picked from the store herself, so they are extra special to her! I think that sometimes you have to force them to do it, even if they don't want to. You are not to going to scar her for life by making her sit on the potty when she doesn't want to! You just have to be consistant no matter where you are or what time of day it is or whatever! I just picked a day to start wearing undies and not diapers and we never looked back! Now, like I said, my daughter only needs a pull-up at nap time and bed time and she can't wait to get them off and wear her big girl cotton undies as soon as she wakes up! I got all of my ideas and a lot of great tips and advice from the website www.thepottytrainer.com....it was what made me decide to just do it and be consistant!! Good Luck! |
| posted by Erin on 11/03/2008 09:24 PM
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| I mean underwear. Yeah when I put a pullup on him I have tried to call them underwear and my son says no mama these are diapers.So he knows it is okay to pee or poop in those and its like, no big deal. I do use them when we go to church or are going to be gone for the day only because they are easier to pull down than a diaper and we haven't been doing this whole potty training thing long enough yet to feel comfortable going just in his underwear. I just don't want him to get discouraged if we are out in public and he has an accident and we have to make a issue out of it by going to the public bathroom and doing that whole routine of cleaning him up, especially if it was a poopy one. But so far he is doing really well, 9 times out of 10 he even keeps his pull up dry but he defnitely know the difference between underwear and a pullup. |
| posted by amy on 11/04/2008 07:36 AM
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| Sorry I forgot to answer your timer question. The timer we have is a digital one. It has a reset button. I got it at walmart. I have it set for 30 minutes, and it has a start stop button, which when it goes off my son will push. Then when he is done using the potty he will hit the same button to start it up again. Then if you want to change the time, like if we forget to set it and shorten it to 20 you hit the reset button etc..... |
| posted by amy on 11/04/2008 07:42 AM
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Thanks Amy!
Erin- I agree with you about the pull-ups. I checked out that web-site and found it to be very informative. I think it will answer a lot of my questions for me. It looks like I can continue my pre-potty training stage I've been doing until she turns 2. I do have a question though about the less absorbent diapers. What are less absorbent diapers and what brand are they? Maybe generic brands like Target or something? Did you follow that advice or not? Thanks again! |
| posted by lorena on 11/04/2008 10:24 AM
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| Now today I put my daughter in panties this am, she has been in pullups for 2 months, she tells me when she has to go pee pee and pulls down her pull ups in the bathroom. But only when she wants to, and I ask her she says no and will go in her pull ups, but today she had panties, i kept setting the time for 30 mins and asked her if she had to go pee pee, and put her potty in the living room, where she was playing and I have tile floors, so should I keep her in the pullups for a bit longer or just let her have accidents!!! |
| posted by charise on 11/04/2008 11:01 AM
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I've got to try this timer idea. My son is 2 1/2 also and showed alot of interest in the potty about a month ago but then lost interest. Hopefully it works out!!!
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| posted by Denise on 11/04/2008 06:48 PM
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| can i ask a stupid question? how do you know when they are "showing interest" in poddy training? we keep our bathrooms currently locked b/c my son is flushing stuff down and he loves flushing things down the toilet. he's 25 months now. is that showing interest or being naughty??????? |
| posted by Lalitha on 11/04/2008 06:58 PM
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They could possibly be a sign of interest, we are potty training and my son is obsessed with watching the toilet being flushed, watching the water and whatever is in it go down. |
| posted by amy on 11/04/2008 09:09 PM
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| I was not sure what the "less absorbant" diapers were either, so we didn't follow that advice, we just went straight to cotton undies and I just had to be really consistant with the timer and making sure that she went pee pee in the potty and all that, but the website that I gave you explains it a lot better than I can, it was definately a life saver for me, because I didn't know a single thing about potty training before I read it! And now that she is potty trained and we only use like 1 pull up a day, at bed time, it is such a relief! |
| posted by Erin on 11/05/2008 06:20 PM
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Thanks Erin-
I was thinking about just going to panties as well and forgoing the pull-ups or "less absorbent diapers." She is getting to the point now where she is asking for her diaper to be changed.
I followed through on the web-site you gave me and she does have a lot of information. I'm hesitant to wait till she is 2, to start potty training though. I want it done now. When did you say you started your little one? Do you think it's okay to start now? I've already been doing the pre-potty training for a while now and am anxious to get started. What are your thoughts?
Thanks again. |
| posted by lorena on 11/05/2008 06:30 PM
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| I started my daughter at about 22 months, so I think you are doing the right thing! Definately do start if she is showing interest, that is what made me want to start with my daughter! I think that you should do what is best for you and your daughter! I kind of ignored the advice in the book about waiting until she was 2, because she showed an extreme interest! I hope that you have an easy of a time with it as I did, which I am sure that it will if you follow the advice on the website, it helped me much more that I ever thought that it would! Let me know how it goes! |
| posted by Erin on 11/05/2008 10:38 PM
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| I started Lexi when she was 19 months old because she was going thru about 10 to 15 diapers a day.So I went and bought her potty pants and she peed all over the floor daily and I was doing laundry 2 xs a day w her potty pants.hubby got mad cause he was like no way.She isnt getting it and now our carpet stinks.I nearly listened to him and stopped but I said no way!I went and bought her more potty pants and she got it in 1 more week.Now she wears 1 to bed at night and thats it.Sometimes I can use that 1 over for 3 or 4 days cause she gets me up 2xs in the night to go potty.She doesnt have accidents hardly any more.I put her potty next to where ever I was.All I can say is keep at it and dont stop.Its like it just snaps in their heads and they start doing it. |
| posted by Lexi on 11/07/2008 02:39 PM
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Thanks Erin-
I'm just following the pre-potty steps for now because I also took her bottle away from her as well, so I don't want to overwhelm her to much. She is doing really well though, she has peed a couple of times already in her potty and goes to it when she is fully dressed and sits on it and says "pee pee" and I think she is actually going because her diaper area feels warm after wards. Thanks again for the web-site. It's a huge help. :) |
| posted by lorena on 11/07/2008 05:31 PM
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