Potty Training In One Week

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Others will tell you to do low-demand with your DD but you have to reduce the demands (expectations) on yourselves too. Many parents experience a long and bumpy ride along the road to a nappy-free existence. Advice on offer from grandparents, friends and professionals is often conflicting, leaving parents unsure of how and when to potty train their child. For us the first day was a nightmare, second was better and by lunchtime on the third day she was dry and fully potty trained. The case studies felt like the same thing over and over again which made it predictable and unrealistic feeling.

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Can’t offer much in the way of advice but would she go if you lined the potty with the nappy instead or her wearing it? Might be a gradual step and then remove it when she’s comfortable? Potty training is really hard in my experience, but she will get there 💜 Any consolation- my son was just shy of third birthday and first day did nothing but wet himself; second day we were about 50:50 and then day three we had one accident.

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I would agree with everyone who has said that if your little one is ready then it will be relatively straightforward. I am not a fan of Gina Fords baby books ? but this one worked a treat for ds1 and now has again with ds2. I thought it made a lot of sense and was a very reasonable, gentle approach. (e.g. If your child does not already do x,y or z then wait a while before starting, they might not be ready. Give them small rewards when they do something on the potty. Give them lots of praise for trying and don?t tell them off when they have an accident, just encourage them) Your main job will be soaking small wet underpants every night because your 18-month-old didn’t quite get what was going on in the Bear in the Big Blue Mountain Potty Training Video. The good news is she can sing every note of the weird rap in that video (look it up); the bad news is she often does this while wetting herself. 3. You Put Your Botty On The What? I didn’t know where to start with our potty training journey so this was a great book to get ideas! my DCs were both dry , day and night within a week but that's because they were ready to be 'trained'

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DD possibly has PDA but not diagnosed. we had a potty in the bathroom and plonked her on it after her bath. Used to ask her what noise a wee made and make a sss-ing sound. She took to weeing quite easily as we'd made it a game. Poos were a bit more difficult, but she started to name them, and we had elephant poo, and after a two-tone one, tiger poo! It was nice to have step by step guide, especially since I'm clueless when it comes to babies, kids and all things related. Just like her "Contented Little Baby Book", you have to be committed and willing to spend a lot of time and effort in the beginning to get any reasonable results. Be strong. IMO pull ups are confusing and a bit grim, once you can see in a potty why would you want to wear a nappy?In fact we've just trained Ds2, we're 10 days in, and no accidents for 3 days, so it has worked for him, so far. My middle son took 6 months and was a complete nightmare. He's nearly now and only recently reliably dry at night. It’s like one of the 10 Commandments for Kids reads ‘Thou shalt never willingly step away from running water.’ Bear that in mind as you bask in the glow of a child doing his first poo in the potty. You are now going to have to spend ten minutes trying to lure them away from the sink. And then another five minutes mopping the bathroom floor. 8. Do You Need To Go? Bear in mind that all your partner’s friends will have the same idea when they read the book – I can do better than that. That’s why you’ll find women showing Elmo’s Potty Time video to their four-hour-old baby in the maternity hospital. Like I say, competitive. DD did it in three days at 18mths (I know that sounds ridiculously early but she wat showung all the "cues" so thought I'd give it a go)

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DD2 did it in a few days at nearly 3, but I'd waited until she was more than ready after the horrid experience with DD1. I've just started potty training my 2.8 yr old DS, having read the Gina Ford "Potty training in 7 days" book. Basically she says that you should have more successes than accidents by the end of day 1, and fully trained within 7 days. So far this has NOT been my experience. He's done one wee in the potty and 207,000 (seems like) on the floor. Wow! You even potty train other children! I really hope she will do a poo soon but tends to do it near bed time when we have out nappy on. I hope she's not holding it TMI sorry. As long as the child is ready it's a breeze. I was dreading it with my first dd but it was so easy I remember wondering what all the fuss was about. Same with second dd, no accidents after a the first few days. children in general are physiologically ready for traning by 18mo - it is a cultural concept of readiness that interprets 'readiness' otherwise. Plenty of (widely ignored) evidence for that.

We had this - I went to the extremes of cutting a hole in the nappy so it would fall through into the toilet but she was still "wearing it". Gina Ford has helped thousands of families resolve challenges over the years and her bestselling New Contented Little Baby Book has sold over 1 million copies around the world. Depends on the child really. My daughter was potty trained in 5 days at just under 2.6 and was dry and out of nappies at nighttime a few months after that. Smarties helped! Just because you don’t wash your hands after going to the toilet doesn’t mean you should pass that habit on to your kids. The bit you never tell you in potty training school is that you will also need to teach kids how to wash their hands. The good news is it’s very easy to get a child to start washing his hands. The bad news is virtually impossible to get him to stop. DD1 wouldn't potty train, kept trying again, with all sorts of methods, and she finally got it at 3+4.