Potty training

[Hollyadmin]

Has anyone with a toddler successfully potty trained? Sammy is almost 3.5 and totally uninterested in it. I should probably just do it (throw out the diapers), but whenever I've tried to PT him, he has screamed and refused to even sit on the toilet. Sigh...

[sheeshoo2]

I am NOT looking forward to this!

[civano]

Holly, I am also struggling with potty training with my oldest son. He's going to be 3 in April and while he'll go pee on the potty (usually only if I remind him or have him running around without a diaper) he will not have a BM (bowel movement) on the potty. If we try and put him on the potty to have a BM, he screams and/or cries and gets very upset. When we did this once, he then held it for a few days and we had to give him Miralax to help him go over a week because the doctor said he stretched his colon.

In fact, potty training has turned into him not telling me he has gone in his diaper and running away from me. He definitely turns everything into a challenge. We've backed off hoping he'd have a BM in the potty and instead have him tell us to put his diaper on to go. Changing an almost 3 year old's poopy diaper is far from appealing when out and about. I do hope he'll be more open to potty training soon.

[sunshinebaby]

My daughter is about 2.5 and I am not looking forward to it at all.  She has no interest in the potty (I do have a little potty for her).  She's freaked out the couple times I've tried to get her to sit.  I'm sure that poops will be a problem.  She is definitely a private pooper, she rarely poops anywhere other than when she is alone in her crib.  That is probably the ONLY reason I'd want to PT her. She is prone to diaper rashes because she poops and won't call for me.

[fbsurvivor]

We're just starting this (my daughter is 18 mo).  I have absolutely no interest in it, but my daughter does seem interested.  We see her squat like she's pooping and we ask her about going to the potty and she wants to go.  She sees other kids at daycare, so I think that helps.  We just started having her sit on the potty, clothes and all, just so she has a good association with it.  She hasn't actually had anything land in the potty yet, but we're just setting up an association.  That's all I've got so far.

[Hollyadmin]

Just wanted to say Sammy is potty-trained! I thought it would never happen but it finally did.

About a week ago, I finally decided to plow through (not sure why) and just do it. We said good-bye to diapers, and just dealt with the inevitable accidents (partly because he's already 50+ lbs and size 6 diapers barely fit anymore!).

The hard thing about PT'ing a kid like Sammy (and some of you may find this too), is you can't MAKE them do anything they don't want to do. With my daughter, you'd say, 'OK, now go sit on the potty and try to pee', but with Sammy, he didn't want to be told when to sit on there. So, we had a couple of days of LOTS of accidents.

He still won't usually sit on there if you tell him to, and even if you do tell him, nothing will happen.  BUT, when he feels like he needs to go, he will go. As usual, he's in charge of himself, and knows when he needs to go.

Nothing's easy with these little people!!

[jiwel]

fbsurvivor,

We are in the same boat with one of my 18 months twin daughters.  We have been considering starting to try her on her potty but have been worried that she is just too young to start.  She comes and tells us now after she poops and has given us some signs that she is ready.  My other twin daughter (who is older by an hour) has absolutely no interest but likes to sit on her potty with her clothes on.

[fbsurvivor]

jiwel- I think mainly I'm lazy and don't want to start potty training.  She's sort of half interested I guess, and I'm sure that means I'm supposed to go with it and start training.