Potty Training HELP!!! - Brenham,TX

Try the three day potty training on line book. For me it was a great place to start and I love the ideas. Don't get excited though for us and most others I have talked to it takes longer than three days, but it will give you a good starting point. Sounds like it may be easy going as she has the basic idea down. Congratulations!

Go to the library and get yourself a book. But here's a general idea:

1. Put your daughter on a schedule: pee first thing in the morning, after breakfast, before leaving house, before lunch, before nap, after nap, before dinner, etc.

2. Empty her dirty diaper into the potty and tell her "pee and poop go in the potty."

3. Never show any negative emotion, but when she has a "hit" jump for joy.

4. when she has a 90% success rate, move to gerber trainer undies, save for nap and bedtime.

Most importantly, be patient and give her the time to learn the rest of the concepts: she already knows wet/dry, now she needs to learn control and timing. This requires a lot of practice, so give her the opportunities to learn.

For my kids, I potty trained them in about 3 days each, didn't know there was a book, just did what my mom and grandma told me. They said that on the first day, to put her in underwear, with plastic underwear over it, then corduroys or sweats, and 2 pair of socks. This way when she pees her pants, it's likely to get absorbed before it hits the carpet or floors. On that first day, set a timer for every hour. Since she's already peed in the potty, chances are you'll get her to go quickly for you. There was atleast 1 time with both of my kids that I was playing with them while they sat on the potty for 2 hours before they went pee!! Anyway, when she pees, act very excited, and let her pick a sticker of her choice to put on the sticker potty chart. I made mine out of poster board, and decorated it with letters and numbers using just markers. I had picked up about 6 packages of stickers to let her pick from, but to make it easier for you, only let her choose from one page, otherwise, you'll be waiting for her to pick out a sticker for 1/2 hour!! Anyway, only put pullups on her for naptime and bedtime. But make sure you are taking her potty right before and right after, and then starting out with the once an hour routine again. Since your daughter is already used to going pee/poop on the potty, you shouldn't have any problems with her, but for me, on the second day I did the hour thing again, but on this day my kids both peed a lot faster. On the third day, I took everything off but shirts so that mine wouldn't poop in her pants. That was the day for both of mine where they were telling ME when they had to go potty, and also the first time both of them pooped in the potty. They wouldn't poop without underwear on, so after many many tries and not wanting to, they both finally got to a point where they finally pooped, and at that point, I had a bag of toys from the dollar tree that I let them reach into for a "Poop award". Oh, and another important thing, you want to start cutting off fluids at night. I cut them off an hour before bedtime. Once your daughter has dry diapers for a few nights in a row, you can get rid of pullups altogether. For my daughter it took a few weeks, but for my son he went from being not potty trained, to being fully potty trained and completely out of pullups even at night, in 7 days.

Wow! She is VERY young for potty training. You are a lucky one! My daughter is 2 and a half and started doing the same thing. It sounds like she's already, using the potty, right? If that is the case, put a plastic potty in the back of your car, numerous change of clothes, plastic bags and wipes. Just go for it. Start at the house for a few days. Reward her every 20 minutes if she stays dry. Don't use pull-ups, just put her in undies. Take her to the potty every 20-30 minutes, if you can. Once she is having fewer accidents, try taking her out in public. Never ask if she needs to go, just take her. It's a real pain in the rear, I can tell you that. The thing about potty training that I never knew is that they have accidents for a while but they are still considered "potty trained." I've been taking my daughter out in undies for nearly a month now. It takes a good 6 months before you don't have to take them all of the time. They just get better about communicating with you so you don't have to be so diligent. We have 1-2 accidents a day but she knows what to do (it usually happens if I ask her if she needs to go instead of just taking her She'll be so involved in play that she doesn't want to stop). She's getting better at it by the week. There's no turning back for us now. Don't worry about potty training overnight. This will come in time. Lastly, my son showed the signs at 2. Someone advised me not to push it and let it happen naturally. I regretted that because then it became a control thing and he didn't potty train until 3 and a half. I had to bribe him to make it happen. Oh, one more thing. She is abnormally young for potty training; if it just becomes frustrating and their are too many accidents, just drop it. Don't pressure her or she will regress. If that happens, just let her run around naked at home as much as possible but keep the diapers on her when you go out.

There's some good basic info online. Check out WebMD and the Mayo Clinic websites - they sketch out the basics. It sounds like she's ready, and you may have it really easy!!

Here are 2 articles on potty training that may help:
http://blogs.goddardsystems.com/Cedar-Park-TX/2009/12/13/...
http://blogs.goddardsystems.com/Cedar-Park-TX/2009/09/22/...