Potty Training 2 Yr Old Girl

That is great that you are paying attention to her "signals". My daughter was completely day trained at 21 months and night trained shortly after and I really did nothing except follow her lead.

Try setting a timer, not only for her, but for you. Set is for, say 45 minutes and each time it goes off, have her sit on the potty for no more than 2 minutes. If she goes, great, make a big deal, give her an M&M treat or reward of some sort (you can weed these out later). Put her in underwear (no going back) and if she has an accident, help her clean it up, put her on the potty, and keep trying. If she understands that the expectation is to go on the potty, she will learn to go there and being in underwear and going there is uncomfortable.

Just stick with it, you're doing great!

K.

Lots of patience and repetition and praise. I have a 21 month old that does her bowel movements in the potty or potty chair. I would say take your daughter with you when you go to the bathroom and have her sit on her potty while you sit on yours. Give her a potty time book to read. Use words to show that she's doing a good job, like good girl go tinkle in the potty. When you tinkle go huh, like you gasp a bit at the sound and say something like Mommy tinkled in the potty. Some kids need to hear the water trickle to help them go. I know you will have lots of answers on this subject, there are some sites on the internet that say how to do it. It's going to be work for you and your daughter, which I am sure you know. I was recently reminded to not reward kids with food or treats for doing things like going in the potty. Do to the increase in health risks now. Talk it over with her and see what she thinks, some little ones at that age can communicate a lot, others are still learning. maybe use the big girl wear panties and let her choose the pattern or character when you go shopping. I think the hardest part isn't so much getting them to pee it's the other part the bowel movements. Hope these ideas help. Good Luck! Congrats to the big girl for staying dry at night and nap times :o)

First let me say congrats on the new one to come in April.
I am a daycare provider and have been for the past 15years, I have 5 kids of my own and am single.
Here are my thoughts...(my own opionions and views)
Get rid of the lil' toliets....why? Do you take them to Wal-Mart, McD's, your realatives, or will they have one is pre-school? Chances are NO....then what? Maybe she'll be afraid of the BIG potty. And no don't worry they won't fall in....OK maybe a time or two. But they learn to hold on.
Second, you are doing right by not forcing her or using pull ups. What a waste of $ and a diaper is a diaper right? If you haven't already go to the store and buy underwear together. When she wants them on let her...as long as you don't mind ACCIDENTS, and that is what they are. Set the timer for every 30min. After she pottys then set it for one hour. Give her TIME on the potty to relax, I give my kids at least 10min each time. Check on her...but give her time.
Also on last thing....she may go backwards for a bit when the baby arrives...just for alittle attention. No worries though.

OH I forgot, one thing I always tell myself and my parents. Potty time is one of LAST things our lil' people can totally control all by themselves. And they will....we BIG people control everything else.
Good luck and remember WE MOMS AND DADS are ALWAYS doing a GREAT JOB

Everyones advice has been really good. The only thing i would add is to give her a candy reward everyime she makes potty in the potty. I do daycare and have found that even the most stubborn child is willing to sit for a piece of candy. i use either one smarty(not the whole package) or one m&M something that is small but that she loves. My son was potty trained and in underwear just before he turned 2 but we kept giving him treats after potty for about 6 months because every once in a while he wouldn't want to be a big kid (I was also pregnant at that time). Keep it up it sounds like you are doing good.

I think what you are doing is great!! I would also, if you havent already, put up a "POTTY CHART" in the bathroom and evry time she goes in the potty give her a sticker, or let her choose one, and have her put it on that day on the chart!! That worked for our stubborn little girl!!!
If she isnt making any progress I wouldnt push it, especially with a new baby coming. We were trying & like you I was pregnant and we decieded that it just wasnt working and didnt want her to regress when the baby came so we just waited and when we had the baby she was excited to be the BIG SISTER/ BIG GIRL and was willing to go all the time on the potty and the stubbornness went away!! Good luck its always an adventure!!

just keep doing what you are doing!!! great job!!!!

Keep doing what you are doing! I think it's great that you are not using Pull-ups; things will go so much quicker for you.

The only other thing I can recommend is to set a timer or an alarm, and when it goes off, she has to try to go potty. So she doesn't feel singled out, you (or whomever is taking care of her) go pott, too. At this age, a good starting point for the timer is 1 hour.

I just finished training my 2 1/2 year old..we tried the stickers, big girl pants, ect...the only thing that really worked were little tootsie rolls. She got one for going pee and 2 for poop. We are still working on night time, we have cut liquids back right after dinner and that is lightening up her diaper a ton, plus she has enjoyed big girl pants, so that is her own incentive. Each morning she checks her diaper to see if she has a lot of pee or little pee, so far this week we are at 2 dry diapers.

Four our 2 year old, what worked was using real underpants - no pull-ups or diapers (except at night for a while). We also used stickers as a treat. She got one sticker for #1 and 2 for #2. Worked like a charm. Good luck!