My daughter is 20 months old and I am in the process of potty training her. The only problem is, she doesnt tell me that she needs to go to the potty until after she has done it in her diaper. I tell her that she has to let me know ahead of time but she doesnt. Then i try to put her on the pot after she eats for about 30 minutes. She does nothing. Then right when I take her off and put the diaper back on, she uses it! AGGGHHH! im frustrated. I hear a lot of people saying not to get pull ups and just get underwear and plastic panties. Does that work? I need help!
Well I already have a potty seat that fits over the toilet. I put her on it and sit in the bathroom with her to keep her from crying. I explain to her that big girls use the potty all my themselves and they dont need mommy to change their diapers. She has used it to pee pee a couple of times in the past, but then she stopped using it in the last few months
I definitely think that big girl panties work because kids don't usually like the way it feels.
My boy is 37 months old and he is still not 100% potty trained.
I wish you good luck! People have told me in the past that they will let you know when they are ready.
But, I also think a little patience and persistence on the parents part helps too.
I had the same problem with my son,he'd even hide. I finally bought him a potty seat that goes over our toilet seat and put him in real undies,not even a diaper over the underware...but u could try that also. Pull ups are like another mother said on here,a "glorified diaper". They still dont feel wet, it just wets the visiual characters they put on the pull up that dissapears when it's wet. Lets us know that we didnt catch them in time but doesnt do anything for the child but creates another reason to want to stay in the diaper. I highly recommend trying to put her in real panties and buying her a $15-$20 dollar potty seat that fits over yours. I think I paid 15 for mine at wal-mart, in the baby section. The have different characters like spongebob or dora..or just plain white ones.
I bought pull-ups and they did not seem to help, even the new ones with the cool alert or whatever it is, it did not seem to phase my daughter. I finally put her in panties and it took about a week of "accidents" but for the most part she is completly potty trained.
Go straight to underwear. It is a messing clean up most of the time, but the only way my son learned when he needed to go was by having accidents. Rewards for using the potty are good too, however, I don't suggest giving big prizes. The first time my son pooped in the potty I bought him a new toy, so he expected one every time. I have heard that keeping m&m's or tootsie rolls on hand as reward works. Good Luck!
The same thing happened with my son. I will tell you what my peditrician told me. Sometimes Children need to take the lead with potty training. She will make up her mind when she wants to - both of you have to be ready to train. At any rate though I think when he started to wear "big boy" underwear that he was more proned to want to do it correctly. But there were several days of laundry that followed - however once he got it he had it we haven't had any problems with wet nights or anything like that.
My little girl just turned 2 last week, and we've been trying the potty training thing for about 4 months now. As far as putting her in big girl panties? It doesn't matter. She wets them and just keeps right on going... the wetness doesn't bother her at all. She's pretty predictable about pooping, though, and will "hide" when she does it, so I can usually catch her and put her on the potty to do it. She's just about trained as far as poop because most of the time she'll tell me that she needs to go, but with pee-pee, she tells me just after she's gone. I wish I had some epiphany to offer, but I just don't. Let me know if you find something that works...
Oh, and I've read that until kids can go about 3 to 4 hours and stay dry, then their bladders are not developed enough. I try to put Emily on the potty about every half hour or so and she goes every time, and most times wets in between when I take her. She's 2, but I just don't think she's ready yet.
Hi S.
She is still very young and maybe not ready for potty training. Give it a break. I agree about using real underwear and not pull ups. I waited with both my sons until they asked to have no diaper on and they were going to the bathroom on their own with hardly any accidents in the week. They were both 2 1/2 at the time.
Good Luck
A.
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I say put her in panties! She won't like being wet. And praise her every time she does go to the bathroom in the potty. That's all it took for mine and she was 18 mths old. Good Luck!
She doesn't appear to be ready to potty train. I would say try again in a few months. My daughter did the same thing and she just hadn't developed the ability to sense when she was about to pee or poop. But when she turned 2, she potty trained in less then a week!
I also think big girl panties are the way to go. Mine both didn't hesitate to wet their pull-ups but did much better in underpants. That said, she just might not be ready to recognize yet when she needs to go. I'd wait a little while...
Hi S.,
My daughter is 4 yrs. old and we just successfully trained last week. It's all about them being ready, in my opinion. She was doing the same as your little girl one year ago, so we tried to train for 7 days. We did the without diapers, no pull-ups. It didn't work. This time she wore pull-ups and I made a chart for multiple times a day to go to the potty. She put a sticker on each time she went. There were little treats here and there. By day two she wasn't wetting anymore. Day 5 in panties. You have to do what is right for your child, not what was right for some elses. Good luck.
Laura
