toilet training anyone?

well done Jake! Vincent has started using the potty again. He started a couple of weeks ago telling me he was doing poos. by the 2nd time i realised he hadn't done it but was about to so out came the potty & he sat down. Within a couple of mins there it was. i was so proud! Since he was done 4 wees on it too. We told him 5 times & he could get a new train for his thomas track. So yesterday #5 wee so out came a special "Jack" for his set. Now he wants more tracks so he know she has to get 5 more times. am finding if he is going to do it, usually it will be there within a few mins. YAY! still not pushing it but taking it easy.

OK, so we started potty training over the long weekend. We managed to get all poos over the 4 days on the potty. Its was a bit of a rush when he told us he needed to go sometimes, and he got a little stressed a couple of times, so held on to me while going ... but I think we did pretty well overall! (He had been telling me for a few months before he poo'd, so I knew he was ready).

As for wees .... we did managed to get one in yesterday, but that was it. On the first day he said potty or poo (not wees) a couple of times, then after sitting on it, stood up and wee'd next to it (so kinda got the idea, but I think he only goes standing up normally!!). And alot of the time I think he didn't realise til it was too late (or at all?!).

Hes a bit too young to understand treats, ie: as soon as I mention he gets one for going, he is up trying to get his treat and forgotten about the wees/potty! I did give him a new car on the first and 4th day for doing all his poos on there though ..... but its not like he really made the connection (or expected it the other 2 days).   SOOO ... do I just persist with putting him on every now and then, and telling him if he wees in his undies that he should be on the potty?? Or just let him do poos on it for now and try again with wees in a few weeks?

Also, hes in daycare (4 days at the mo, but it will drop to 2 in may) .... do you think that will disrupt things? They said to me this morning they wait til the child tells them they are wanting to use the toilet (no pottys there, just baby loos) .... so I'm worried he will freak out when he needs to poo (and I'm not there to help him on the potty), after 4 days of doing it in the potty!!! Or will he go back to thinking its OK to do it in his nappy if he can at daycare?

Sorry for all the questions - I'm new to this!!!

Talking to someone else there, they do have a potty but try to change them to the toilets quite quickly. Unfortunately his key carer has been away this week sick and they have said I need to discuss it all with her to come up with a plan. We're still doing OK with poos at night (even though he is going in his nappy at dc) but haven't even tried again with wees.

i would take that as meaning she knows & deffiantely worth introducing her. especially since you newly preggy, worth doing it now rather than closer to bubs arriving. congrats by the way.

I decided on Saturday to bite the bullet & start tting again. Working pretty well. We now have a toilet seat that we call the potty seat. He thinks it's great. also have a GREAT toilet training star chart book from total learning (thanks sunnyhoney!) that he loves us to read to him whilst he is on there. usually by the third page he is doing his little wee. had poos in the undies today, but that will come i believe.

Jakes regularly doing pees and woos in the potty without being prompted. We take his night nap off and he sits on the potty straight away and wees then runs around all morning with a bare bum. We have maybe one accident a day ATM.
He doesn't quite manage the potty if hes got pants on though so need to work on that I guess. Got him undies and using them to start off with to get him used to taking them off when hes gotta go.
He gets a choc button or part of a snake lolly (I break them into bits) when he uses the potty and hes quite clever coz he pees a little bit then comes to get a lolly then promptly sits down and pees the other half out lol then wants another lolly! Its so funny!! He gets his lollies too coz hes using the potty! Little smartypants!

This may be a really random question, but has anybody else's little one decided that they want to be using the potty since everybody else does at 11 months?????

I'm still using nappies full time, but she HAS to come into the toilet if I'm in there, and will climb onto her potty while I'm on the loo. This started about 6 weeks ago when she bacame the "toilet stalker" - she wanted to watch EVERYTHING. I'd shut the door, she'd open it, crawl in, stand up in front of me and try to look into the loo to see what I was doing. So I told her I was using the potty because big girls don't need nappies. And, well, now she wants to sit on her potty every time DP or I go into use the bathroom.

Hi ladies, thought I would come hang out in here. Spencer today told me "poos" whilst grabbing the front of his nappy, he had done wees but doesn't seem to realise that that is a different word to poos. So yeah am hoping this progresses and then we can start TT in the spring.
We have a potty, he knows what it is for and sometimes likes to sit on it but so far no action on the potty. Mostly he is clothed when he sits on it though!

Oh for anyone going that route I saw that bumbo have a seat for on the toilet, looked very comfy. I always think the plastic potty looks really uncomfy, so if Spencer goes of sitting on it I think I will get the bumbo one for the loo.

well we are back on the TT bandwagon again as Mr T has decided that he wasnts to wear "undies" without a nap, nap. No worries there but when he wets he then comes crying to us. Sometimes he says toilet other times he gets really distressed. We ask him if he wants to go toilet and he also asks to go but nothing happens. Also he doesnt like sitting on the little toilet seat hes starts crying even with some distraction ie singing of songs etc and begs to "get off" then promptly does wees inhis undies and gets upset. We have told him that once he does wee, wees on the toilet he can have a present but still no joy...

Any suggestions?

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We've started TTing this week and so far its not going well.

She loves her panties but doesnt care one bit about going in them and is happy to sit around wet and soiled rather than letting us change her

She's always gone and hidden when she wees or poos and never tells us when she needs to go... and if you catch her she screams at you to go away.

I have no idea why she's this odd about it.

Hope next week goes better.