Potty Training - Tyler, TX

Personal I would wait until after the baby is born. I have my kids close in age and we were potty training my oldest and she back tracked and started to have accidents and acting like a baby again. So I would wait until she is a little older and more comfortable with her new sister being around. She did much better when she was 3 yrs old and than her 2nd little sister came. All my kids were potty trained when they turned 3 yrs old and I think they got a better understanding of when they should go to the bathroom. We just finished potty training my youngest little girl and she turned 3 yrs old in February.
Good Luck!

I have to agree with some of the others on here, don't stress over it, don't compare you kid to others and all kids are different. I was told the same thing by my mother~ about how me and my brother were potty trained by 1 and a half. With both of my kids I pushed it at 2-3 and had no luck. Everyone else told me they would start going when they got ready. My grandmother got a cute potty chair made for my son when he was 3 and he would sit on it and nothing seemed to come out. Finally at about 3 and a half to 4 he just decided to start going. So it seemed with both of my kids, they decided to start going once I stopped pushing them to. Well good luck.

don't stress about it!! i completely understand how you would want her out of her diapers before her little sister gets here, but in reality she MIGHT regress a little bit anyway when the new baby gets here... so i'd wait until way after the baby gets here and she has "adjusted" to the baby getting the attention! i hope that makes since! My youngest is 3 1/2 and she has FINALLY been COMPLETELY done with diapers/pull-ups for about 4 months now! yeah!! Just be patient with it...she'll be ready when she's ready!
good luck!

Hi J.,

Firstly, don't compare her with anyone else's child...each child is different (even you at her age), so don't put any unnecessary pressure on yourself.

Second, perhaps it is best to wait awhile. I understand not wanting two in diapers, but it sounds as if she's just not ready. Perhaps when the baby comes, you can work on it again after she gets that's what babies do. She can see the differences between herself (a big girl) and the baby.

Don't rush it and make yourself and her miserable in the process. Relax and know that every child gets potty trained and it will happen when it is supposed to.

Gerber has some waterproof training pants, I believe you can get them at Walmart.
http://www.gerberchildrenswear.com/products/subcategory.a...

This may not help much, but I'd just let it go for now. My oldest son was very stubborn and hard to potty train. He was pushing 4 before he was trained during the day and 4 before he was a night. Because of the headaches I'd had dealing with it from the point he was 18 months old, I guess I was in denial about having to train my second. I never made an issue out of it. If he asked, we went, but it wasn't often. I figured he'd be a nightmare too. However, 1 month after he turned 3, he told me he needed to go potty, so we went. Well, from that moment on, he never had an accident, day or night. I didn't do anything. No bribes, no nothing. It was totally on his own. To me, if you wait until they are ready and don't make it a struggle, it is completely simple. Sounds to me, like she's in a power struggle with you over it. Even if you do make any headway, she'll probably regress when the baby does. If I were in your shoes, I'd wait until after the baby comes and try again as she has gotten used to being the big girl.

Also, just my two cents, I don't believe kids are truely potty trained until they stay dry on their own intiative and go to the bathroom without urging from you (aside from, it's time for bed, let's try and go potty). Kids that are "potty trained" as such young age, is more like the mom is potty trained and taking them potty every half hour. It's the mom's intiative, not the kids. Kind of like people saying their 12 month old knows the alphabet when they are really just singing a song as they would "Itsy Bitsy Spider." They don't really have an understanding of what it means. (I hope that makes sense)