Potty Training - Wake,VA

It sounds like you are on the right track. She won't be naked all of the time. Potty training is a huge mile stone and it takes some kids longer to master than others and many do it in stages. Hang in there she will get it.

She will not stay naked forever... I know it isn't real fun to have them naked all the time, but if it works slowly start adding cloths... real underpants first... then a shirt. My boys have been a challenge with the potty training, but as soon as I put them in a diaper or pull ups they are really bad about the potty...

Plus move up the time... start shecking her every 1 to 2 hour instead of 2 to 3.... she is growing and as she grows and eats her potty time line and bladder will change...

Good Luck

One of my friends did this.
She bought her daughter the panties to DIE for :) and when her daughter peed in them, she made HER throw them away in the trash. She dug them out later, of course, but it definitely got the point across. I never did hear if it completely fixed the problem, but I'm inclined to believe that it was pretty effective.

congrats on such a beautiful blessing! I was 37 and thought I was perimenopausal- turned out I was 10 weeks pregnant after 15 yrs of infertility- Amazing what life throws at you!
She's only two, they all take their own sweet time- You're lucky it is summer- so much easier to do the naked thing! But it does work. I realized my son had a penchant for temporary tattoo's- and everytime he made it in the potty he got to pick one and we put it on. Much like a sticker system, but they get to carry it with them till it wears off(or you baby oil them off). The funny thing was to see him asks tatooed folks if they went on the potty too! People were cool- and most of the time went along with it! You can get easy to remove ones at AC Moore's in little $1 booklets (although with the prices of EVERYTHING rising could be a little more now)and in those 50 cent machines at the exit of grocery stores-although they are of a longer lasting quality. Good luck!

Try to relax. Your daughter may very well be a little young for potty training. My son and daughter were close to three before we really started.

Kids all move at their own pace. Just keep in mind no kid ever went to high school in training pants so it will happen eventually.

Given how amazing your experience has been just having her you might want to be aware of any hyper responses you have to her stages of development and behaviors. Talk to your pediatrician etc. Take care, N.

If your daughter is 15 months, she is too young to be potty trained. I know some people advocate starting this young, but I do not feel a child has good muscular control especially of the sphincter muscles until between 21/2 and 3 years old. You may be seeing her respond to the training postively because girls are generally easier to train than boys. However, I think you will see her regress many times at this young age.

A.

Is she 15months or 2yrs old???
You can either stick w/ it for a couple more months and hope she gets the hang of it. OR you can quit and start again in say 3months. Start all over w/ underwear and pull ups at night. No pull ups during the day. I think that pt'ing for 2months is a little excessive. It normally takes a couple weeks give or take...IF they are ready.
Since she was a preemie, maybe she isnt quite ready. I find that some preemies can fall behind about 3-6months. And it doesnt always correspond w/ their gestational age.
And btw: congrats on your little miracle, thats amazing.

Hi C.,
I too had this same problem with all 4 of my daughters. They seemed to go through what I called "the newness of it all has worn off" potty training isn't new and fun any more and they seemed to rather be lazy and go in whatever they had on. My youngest daughter (just turned 3) took quite a while to get back in the habit but seemed very excited at the prospect of wearing big girl panties so we went to the store and bought regular (dora or princess patterned) panties, she had a couple of accidents in the beginning but didn't like that she had gotten her new special undies wet, and quickly learned what to do. Of course we use the pull ups at bedtime. I personally don't care for using pull ups "just in case" during the day, if it feels like a diaper, it must be a diaper and they become comfortable using it rather than the potty. In the beginning, we used the thick training underwear with the plastic pants over - which I ended up having to wash a load every day. The regular panties worked much better although the messes were worse there were very few of them. Good luck!!!

Dear C. C.,

I wish you luck on Potty training. Every one of us is different and go through stages - you daughter is not ready from what you are saying. Of course you want to reward her good behavior and not do anything to make 'potty time' negative. It may well be that you need to back off and give he a couple of monthes and try again.

I am so thrilled for you and your husband having the baby you dreamed of and longed for. It just shows (to me) that a higher power is at work in our lives.

I work with someone who just had her daughter that she longed for. However, my friend had decided that her two boys were too old to disrupt every one with a new baby - and it would probably be another boy...So - she had her tubes tied. It was not long after that when she discovered that she was pregnant with a baby girl!

Hi,C. -- I'm a little confused. You mention you're potty-training your two-year-old but your biography says your daughter is 15 months. Not sure which is right?

Anyway, even at 2, that can be a little young for some children to be fully trained. Certainly keep it up, but a lot of kids aren't fully trained until 2 and a half or more, sometimes quite a bit more. It can take quite a while for children to be able to truly feel the urge to go in time to declare the need to you, get to the potty, get down their pants, sit, etc. What seems like a quick process to adults is a lot of steps for a kid who doesn't yet feel the urge until it's almost overwhelming.

I would just keep on with the training pants and taking her regularly to the potty. The sudden change she has made to "going" in the training pants, after things were going OK, could be caused by outside things -- has she been sick, stressed, is she in day care or a playgroup where there may have been changes/new kids/new adults, has she been babysat more than usual in recent days or even eaten or drunk new things that might be upsetting her system, etc. etc. -- lots of reasons for a little backsliding. She may just be getting so into her playing that she simply doesn't hear her body telling her to go.

Don't get discouraged but maybe slow down on the expectations and just keep taking her. If she's old enough to grasp the idea, a reward chart might work, but if she's just recently turned two, that may not compute for her yet.

Hi C.,

Here are some resources about potty training:

http://www.thediaperfreebaby.com/

http://potty-training.suite101.com/article.cfm/eliminatio

http://www.parentingtoddlers.com/pottytraining.html

Hope these help. Good luck. D.

We had to let my son run around naked all the time, in the house of course. He would only tell us he had to go potty (he even went by himself) when he wasn't wearing any clothing. As soon as the underpants went on he thought they were just like a diaper. It has been around a month of nakedness and is pretty good about not making accidents when dressed. We still let him run naked around the house to reinforce it though. I think you should just let your daughter run naked for a while and she will get it eventually. I was really thinking my boy would never get it but is making progress. Hang in there.