Potty Training Day #1

[corbysmom531]

My son is now two years and three months.  To the day actually.  It is time for potty training. 

This morning, he woke up with a dry diaper.  I immediately put him on his little frog potty.  He sat there for one hour and forty minutes without going pee.  He ate his breakfast and drank his juice.  I ran the water, read him books, turned on the TV.  You name it, I tried it.  He finally went!  But just a little.  Turns out, that was how it went all day. 

- He peed a little in his potty.

- We clapped and got all excited, then poured the pee in the big toilet.

- We washed our hands, then we put a sticker on his chart.

- He'd play for about five minutes, then have a tiny accident, and he'd be put on the potty.  He'd stay on the potty for about an hour or so, then start the whole process over again.

He ate his lunch on the potty.  At about 12:30, I put a pull up on him and put him down for a nap.  When he woke up at 4:45 (much later than he normally does) he of course had peed in his pull up. 

The evening went the same, except he peed every 20-30 minutes instead of every 90 minutes or so.  He'd get up and play bare butt naked, then start dribbling and sit on the potty on his own.  YAY!  He still only went a little at a time, but at least he's learning!

He took a bath, and even in the warm water he never finished peeing.  I put a pull up on him for bed, and he immediately peed in it.

While I'm a little upset that he never emptied his bladder, or even tried to go poo, I'm very happy he recognized that he needed to sit on his potty! 

Hopefully tomorrow he will give in and empty his whole bladder.

I'm not exactly sure what to do for bedtime.  I've heard that I'm supposed to keep him in underwear, but when he's in underwear he thinks it's okay to pee - at least till it comes down his leg.  I know he'd be sleeping in his pee, and I don't want him doing that. 

It's 10pm, and I'm exhausted like it's past midnight. 

Day one totals:  Eight stickers for going on the potty.

                           Four accidents larger than a dribble

                           One pair of underwear soaked

Tomorrow, day #2!

[proud2Bmomma]

Sep. 1, 2009 at 5:02 AM

Could not disagree any more with previous poster.  My son was trained WELL before age three.  My brother was trained at 18 months. 

You're doing fine.

[proud2Bmomma]

Sep. 1, 2009 at 5:03 AM

And my oldest girl was much harder than my son.  It depends on the child and how early you start.

[Craftymomof3]

Sep. 1, 2009 at 9:52 AM

Sounds to me like he's doing great! You might want to try actually putting him on the bigger toilet and see if he won't "pee" there... With billy we would put him on his frog potty and he wouldn't go right... but when we started putting him on the big toilet he would "let it out".. LoL! something about the water i think.  

Anyways, sounds like he's doing great! Keep going mama! =) I would put him in a diaper at night too though.. I would hate to have to be cleaning sheets all the time and worrying about the pee. 

[Laura2U]

Sep. 1, 2009 at 10:26 AM

I agree with Eve, my friend's son was afraid of the sound his pee made on the plastic in the little potty. But he was okay with the pee hitting the water. So if he does the same thing today, you could try that. But good job! And at night you can still put him in a diaper or pull up, until he gets the day thing down!

[cbx3mom]

Sep. 1, 2009 at 10:46 AM

Sounds like he's doing great! If he's going to sit on the potty himself it definitely sounds like he knows what he's supposed to be doing. He'll get the hang of it!

I agree with proud2Bmomma, too. Each kid is different. All 3 of my boys were trained well before 3. Just stay consistent with it and he'll get it.

I'd also keep him in a diaper/pull-up at night/nap until he has things down a little more. When they stayed dry more than not is when I went to undies with the plasitc pants over. They usually started with nap time then progressed to night time. It's not worth changing sheets several times a day! :)

[corbysmom531]

Sep. 1, 2009 at 11:03 AM

Thanks for the encouragement ladies!!!!  I'm praying he'll learn more today.

The problem with the big toilet - he's scared to pee on himself.  In the frog potty, he knows that he won't.  The guards for the big toilet aren't high enough to stop it. 

So what do I do for that?  If I push him down, (you know what I mean) he gets upset with me. lol

As for the first poster - I deleted your comment because while you said you weren't bashing you most definitely were.  My husband, brothers, my BIL's, even my dad, were all potty trained between 18 and 25 months.  There are only two moms that I know (not on CM) that had trouble potty training their two year old boys, and one was because of lack of discipline and consistency.

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