smoochy12
01-10-2009, 01:32 PM
hey gals...
have been on and off lately, mostly lurking but i had to get your opinions and BTDT advice on potty training.
molls is doing GREAT. we started out by having "nudie bum time" before and after meals where we would undress her and let her tear around with nothing on. a couple accidents ( i think two...) and she was pee trained on the potty. yay!
we have increased the time that she is doing this on days that we are home ( obviously we clothe our child when we are going somewhere...:)lol)
here are our problems and where i need the help. we have just in the last few days added in wearing either a dress with no dipe, pull up or undies, so she has to pull up her dress before she sits down. has done great. no accidents.
she still gets pullups for car rides and sleeping time ( naps...another time. really it is quiet time in her room reading as she has given up naps just before christmas...sigh)
1. as soon as we put something on her bottoms like underwear or a pullup she will wet through it. it's like she knows she doesn't have to concentrate on it. i'd like to do underpants at home now and while we are at other peoples house or out running errands, but she has not had any success with that yet. it's not an option to just have bare legs and bum under a skirt right now of we are going outside for antoher few mos.
(actually that is a lie, we have had a bit of luck in that this am i put her pj pants back on. they are very loose and still felt like she was wearing nothing tight in the underwear region i guess...no accidents , although she is working on pulling her pants up and down quickly enough. she has the dress down pat!!)
do i just do the loose pants with no underwear until she gets used to the down action? what about when she is wearing the skirt? i can't have her flashing her girly parts to EVERYONE everywhere we go, ya know?
2. POOP. we have had 2 kinda successes with poop since this adventure began...both were near misses. first one seh asked for a pullup and then as i was going to get one she pooped some on the floor on her way tot he potty but got the last little bit in. much rejoicing.
second she was downstairs and tried to go up the stairs to the big toilet instead of using her potty downstairs. ( which is strange, as she has yet to want to use the big toilet at ALL and i'm not pushing it. potty is fine with me until she gets the hang of it.) so she knew that she did it and she was on her way to getting herself there to do it but didn't make it.
the rest of the time she is holding it in and will not poop until naptime, when she knows that she gets a pullup. will not try on the potty before she goes into her room, even if i know she has to go? any ideas?
she has gotten a little constipated because of the holding in over the past few days, but i am reluctant to give her TOO many prunes as i think a blowout would happen and we are spending lots of time with no dipe on. white carpets...you understand.
any thoughts? potty training is seriously the most stressful thing about parenting so far for me. gives me shivers. BUT i think i have been doing really well working myself through it and it has been positive so far. i'm just stumped on these issues.
thanks in advnace. sorry so long. just wanted to give a complete picture of the sitch. oh and btw, she is going to be 3 in april and very verbal. we are ALL ready for this :) she is very proud of herself too,which helps. we have done rewards and stickers and m&ms...ceased that and she is now happy with just a lot of praise.
have been on and off lately, mostly lurking but i had to get your opinions and BTDT advice on potty training.
molls is doing GREAT. we started out by having "nudie bum time" before and after meals where we would undress her and let her tear around with nothing on. a couple accidents ( i think two...) and she was pee trained on the potty. yay!
we have increased the time that she is doing this on days that we are home ( obviously we clothe our child when we are going somewhere...:)lol)
here are our problems and where i need the help. we have just in the last few days added in wearing either a dress with no dipe, pull up or undies, so she has to pull up her dress before she sits down. has done great. no accidents.
she still gets pullups for car rides and sleeping time ( naps...another time. really it is quiet time in her room reading as she has given up naps just before christmas...sigh)
1. as soon as we put something on her bottoms like underwear or a pullup she will wet through it. it's like she knows she doesn't have to concentrate on it. i'd like to do underpants at home now and while we are at other peoples house or out running errands, but she has not had any success with that yet. it's not an option to just have bare legs and bum under a skirt right now of we are going outside for antoher few mos.
(actually that is a lie, we have had a bit of luck in that this am i put her pj pants back on. they are very loose and still felt like she was wearing nothing tight in the underwear region i guess...no accidents , although she is working on pulling her pants up and down quickly enough. she has the dress down pat!!)
do i just do the loose pants with no underwear until she gets used to the down action? what about when she is wearing the skirt? i can't have her flashing her girly parts to EVERYONE everywhere we go, ya know?
2. POOP. we have had 2 kinda successes with poop since this adventure began...both were near misses. first one seh asked for a pullup and then as i was going to get one she pooped some on the floor on her way tot he potty but got the last little bit in. much rejoicing.
second she was downstairs and tried to go up the stairs to the big toilet instead of using her potty downstairs. ( which is strange, as she has yet to want to use the big toilet at ALL and i'm not pushing it. potty is fine with me until she gets the hang of it.) so she knew that she did it and she was on her way to getting herself there to do it but didn't make it.
the rest of the time she is holding it in and will not poop until naptime, when she knows that she gets a pullup. will not try on the potty before she goes into her room, even if i know she has to go? any ideas?
she has gotten a little constipated because of the holding in over the past few days, but i am reluctant to give her TOO many prunes as i think a blowout would happen and we are spending lots of time with no dipe on. white carpets...you understand.
any thoughts? potty training is seriously the most stressful thing about parenting so far for me. gives me shivers. BUT i think i have been doing really well working myself through it and it has been positive so far. i'm just stumped on these issues.
thanks in advnace. sorry so long. just wanted to give a complete picture of the sitch. oh and btw, she is going to be 3 in april and very verbal. we are ALL ready for this :) she is very proud of herself too,which helps. we have done rewards and stickers and m&ms...ceased that and she is now happy with just a lot of praise.