potty training

[rani]

Rads,

He's still young. I tried to potty train D shortly after his 2nd bday and he wasn't interested. We tried again a few months later, he would scream everytime I showed him a brief and insisted on wearing a diaper. So we left him and tried again at 2 yrs 8 mths whe he was home for Easter break. Within 2 weeks he was potty trained.

 

[MickeyMom]

Rani-
I plan to do the same with my son, he is 2 years and 7 months and has just started showing signs of "readiness". He goes to a kindy and is away from home on most days so I plan to wait till summer break so that we have 1-2 weeks of training only.
Mickeymom

 

[Loon]

My son is 3.5 and totally P.T trained during the day and has been for nearly a year but still wets at night. I asked his Doc and he said if he is a sound sleeper it might take quite awhile for him to learn. Any ideas how to get him to wake at night to wee? We already limit fluids in the afternoon/evening, and praise him in the am for drier Pull Ups, any other ideas?

Thanks

 

[Valencia]

I'd like to ask the same question as Loon's, since my daughter is 4.5 yrs and wearing Pampers pull-ups XL. I wake her up every night to the toilet before I sleep but she still wets her pull-up in the morning, because she sleeps very sound. And Pamper's has recently reduced it's 32 package to 24, but keeps the same price.:tantrum:

 

[loupou]

My daughter was like this for some years. Our paed. said in some kids it takes a while for the hormone that makes your body hold in pee at night to start being secreted from the brain.

What we did was:

1) Stop fluid in-take w/in one hour of bedtime (at that point she went to bed at about 7:30pm)

2) Every night before we went to bed (~10:30 or 11:00) we would get her out of bed, take her to the toilet for a pee-pee and then put her back in bed.

We did this for about 3 years, maybe more.

 

[Joyce]

My daughter is nearly 3 and has went from nappies to the big toilet (by passing the potty), but still asks for a nappy to poo. I know she can poo on the big toilet because she has done so on a few occasions, but it seems like she hasn't got the patience to sit on the toilet.

I'm I right in thinking that this is just a passing phase that she will grow out of?

 

[Valencia]

Thanks, Loupou. That means I'll have to wait.

Btw, Rani, I can't find the normal smile smilie sign used within the text.

 

[odm_post]

What we did was:

2) Every night before we went to bed (~10:30 or 11:00) we would get her out of bed, take her to the toilet for a pee-pee and then put her back in bed.

We did this for about 3 years, maybe more.

....so, how old was your daughter when she actually got up to pee on her own?

My daughter is 3y 9m now, but still occasionally wets the bed. Now I put her back on pull-on nappy. 'Cause there are days she'll stay dry until the next morning, but there are also days that we have to wash her bedsheet 3 days in a row :bawling:

We'd tried 'your' technique (of waking her up before we turn in) for a while, and she was dry. So after a few months, we stopped waking her up. But, I think, she sort of relied on us to wake her up to pee.
FYI, we've also limited her drink before bedtime.

Her sister was totally off-nappy when she's 3y 6m. I know I shouldn't compare, but......:eyesroll:

 

[Loon]

Thanks for the advice, I will try to wake him before we go to bed but will hope he just grows out of this phase.

Joyce-my son was the same way would not poo on the potty, in fact he would ask for a Pull Up to take a poo in, it drove me crazy, but people had told me it was just a phase and in truth it was. It lasted for about 6 months after he was fully pee potty trained. One day he just did it on the potty and that was that. Now we just have to tackle the nights and we will be set

 

[rani]

The last couple of nights D has refused to wear a diaper at night. I've been taking him to the loo before I go to bed, which is quite late (12) and so far we haven't had any accidents. I'm just worried once it gets warmer it will be difficult to control his fluid intake in the evening and we might have a few accidents.