Potty training boot camp??

[Cumberland]

Let me tell you my issue with the all naked all the time method.. We have been doing that with my DD for months now. She is 100% potty trained when naked. However, the minute I put a pullup, big girl panties or a diaper on her, she pees in it. I have been stuck in this rut and am going crazy. I realize I am no help in the matter-sorry!

Let me tell you my issue with the all naked all the time method.. We have been doing that with my DD for months now. She is 100% potty trained when naked. However, the minute I put a pullup, big girl panties or a diaper on her, she pees in it. I have been stuck in this rut and am going crazy. I realize I am no help in the matter-sorry!

We had the exact same problem and went on like that for months. If only she could go everywhere naked. She would have loved it!

After months of that, we took her to Target and let her pick out her big girl undies and she started wearing those. We got the real undies too, not the padded ones. It took a few times but she figured it out. I think the minimal absorbancy helped.

Wood floors make it pretty easy, IMO. Especially because you can have her help you clean up. Poop from diapers goes in the toilet and we let her flush. I think that helped too.

Good luck!!!

2 years? Your pediatrician would have me committed w/my 3 yr 3 month kid still in diapers. I did the naked thing w/DS #1 (the boys LOVE the access BTW), but we haven't been able to do it w/DS #2. When I tried it, the puppy found it too attractive and tried to nip ... and DS thought it was funny and was teasing in that general direction with ....

Anyway - I figured it'd be a tricky one to explain at an emergency room.

That is so dang funny!

[Vanquisher]

Annie, what's the big rush?

Your dd is only two. Is she ready? Does she know before she needs to go, or only after?

I don't know. The naked method is one way to go, but I say you do what works for you. I waited till my son was 3, and he is fine. Really. We didn't do the naked method.

That method just sounds yucky to me. I don't like cleaning up urine all day long. Maybe it's just me.

If you feel your dd is ready, and you want to do the boot camp, then go for it. Me, I couldn't do it that way.

Good idea to go for it and give it a try. It will give you an idea of where she is at the the potty spectrum.

Just to clarify....I didn't go out of my way to try the nekked method. As with so many things in my first child's toddlerhood, she handed this method to me as an option to dealing with her aversion to clothing. She could take her clothes off by herself quite handily and liked it. Therefore, naked child at home. I reminded her she was without and diaper and needed to pee in the toilet. A few accidents but it worked, with much credit to her determination. (It wasn't quite that simple and required a lot of deep breathing and patience for me ). But, like I said, the trick was transferring this skill to undies. She only liked the big toilet -- getting her a seat to fit on that helped a bunch.

Looking forward to your potty journal!

[Cumberland]

We use cloth diapers, and so I have always given DD lots of naked time since birth-before she could crawl it was on a big waterproof pad. She started going on the potty at 17m, but only bc I could tell she was about to pee and would put her on it. So maybe our holdup is due to the fact that she is very used to being naked all the time.

[Vanquisher]

Change of subject here, but Heidi, how was your son's birthday? Did you survive? I was thinking about you.

Thanks!

We are in party prep mode right now. I will let you all now how it turned out.

[HeartRN]

DD will go at preschool but not really interested at home. Apparently she has to sit on every mini toilet they have there!!! :!

The funny thing is, she apparently pees more than once, too! Good luck! I am admittedly very lazy about it at home, esp. when I ask and she blows me off, I figure, she does it a school, she'll want to go here eventually, too.

Man oh man am I jealous. DS#2 could not care less about sitting in a nasty diaper. He'll pee in the potty (when he darn welll feels like it), but pooping in an entirely different story.

[PrincessFiona]

Conclusion from this unofficial study: I think this pediatrician probably smokes crack.

Viva la diapers!!

:> I wondered how long this experiment would last...does that make me a bad person?

I actually tried to start Andrew (now 11) at potty training when he was about 20 months old (don't laugh!). I bought a little potty and some pull-ups...and thought I'd start slowly. Anytime he'd watch tv, I'd sit him on the potty. Needless to say, everyone that I knew laughed at me..and within 2 weeks, I felt like an idiot. Also...I don't know if it has anything to do with my early, early attempts to potty train..but he took me the longest of all of my children to potty train.

I've tried a few times with Aidan now (also 2) thinking it would be sooo nice to have the potty training thing out of the way before baby #5 springs her little self on us...and there are always the initial successes....but in my heart of hearts I know he's just not ready and we'll likely...no, certainly, be doing double diapers in about 10-12 weeks or so....

kris

[SueC]

Well, it was worth a shot! I do think your ped might smoke crack, does she by any chance not have kids over the age of 2??? I was a little depressed to realize the other day that I've been changing diapers for 6 years now and will be changing diapers for at least another 3 or 4 years that I was almost a little tempted to try to potty train Mitchell before the new baby comes.

[mommax3]

All of my boys were 3.5(++) when they were trained, and I changed diapers for about 10.25 years. I really was so used to it that nothing much about it bothered me anymore. If I somehow ended up with another baby or child that wasn't potty trained, I would not feel any more confident about potty training now than I did when my oldest was a baby!
I agree with Tara.....they will do it when they are ready. For my youngest, that point came when he couldn't go to summer camp last summer with his older brothers because he wasn't potty trained......a week later, I dropped him off, in big boy pants, at summer camp, and that was the end of that!

Conclusion from this unofficial study: I think this pediatrician probably smokes crack.

You learned something about your DD and your pediatrician!

The pooping in the toilet is a major accomplishment, IMO. DD was into undies around 2y 9m. She was doing the nekked method for while before that.

I made a few attempts before but the successful one was relatively painless with very few accidents.

Better luck next time!

[Flynn]

Does DD have a dry diaper at night? Does she tell you when she needs a fresh diaper??

I think two is REALLY early -- BUT it completely depends on the child. We transitioned DD to a big bed at 22 months to get ready for DS and I thought potty training on top of that would be too much change.

My daughter is VERY verbal and her potty training went really well. She does use pooping as a control issue and when she "is a bit miffed or wants to add control to her world" she will hold her stool for up to 5 days. Um, that's a little wacky in my book but she had two accidents her whole life so I'll deal with her control issues. After all, she's my daughter. She probably got "those particular issues" from me anyway.

Good luck and keep us posted!!!