potty training advice.

**Myself** · 06-29-2010 06:02 PM

My daughter is 15 months old. She is my first and only child. Im looking for any advice or tips from other Moms out there on potty training.

I started to potty train her at 12 months old. And I know, a bunch of you are going to instantly say that that is way to young, but hear me out. She was walking well, talking well, and could accurately tell me if she had a wet/dirty diaper by 12 months.

I am a stay at home mom, so I have all day every day to devote to this process. The day I started potty training her, I put panties on her instead of a diaper, and introduced her to sitting on the "big girl potty". She took all of this very well, and it was a matter of hours before she came to me and told me that she had to "pee pee". I rushed her to the toilet and she proceeded to go. Lots of praise and general fun times when she successfully used the potty resulted in her telling me fairly regularly when she needed to go.

Within about 2 weeks, I would say that she was 90% trained. I still wore a diaper on her at bed time and when we went out, but the rest of the time she wore panties. She was doing miraculously well, in my opinion. She maintained this level for about 6 weeks.

Then, about 3 weeks ago, she just stopped wanting to use the potty at all. She screams if I try to set her on the toilet, doesnt ever tell me that she needs to go, and in fact seems to hold it if I put her on the potty until I let her off. Within seconds of getting off she will proceed to wet her pants. I am at a complete loss. I dont know what went wrong. I am unaware of her being scared by a toilet at any time. If anyone has any advice, I would appreciate it!

**LadyC** · 07-01-2010 09:33 PM

I am actually in the same boat. To be honest I was getting ready to post the same question until I saw you had posted first!!

I have tried postive and negative reinforcement. My daughter still does what she wants. She has good days and she has bad days. Having her pee on the potty is not really a problem she absolutely refuses to do #2 on the potty. It is so frustrating. I noticed in your question you mentioned you put panties on her in the beginning. Did this help? People have told me toddlers can tell a major difference between the two. My daughter is still in her Pull-ups, but I am nervous on the transition to panties. The only thing I can recommend is keep pushing and doing what you are doing. Keep taking her to the potty at regular intervals during the day. We can only hope that this will push our little ones to go. To me it sounds like you are doing a good job, but again if anyone has been here and done that PLEASE help!!!!

**Myself** · 07-02-2010 04:39 PM

Glad to know that Im not the only one in this boat. LOL! LadyC, yes panties seem to help. When she wets herself in a diaper, she doesnt react at all. But when she wets in panties, she clearly feels uncomfortable and will even try to pull the panties off herself. That being said, this discomfort is not enough to get her to use the toilet. And when wearing panties, if she wets, there is a wet spot left on the floor, chair, etc. So that is something else to take into consideration.

**aljs** · 07-03-2010 10:36 PM

I trained both my kids at a year old and found that staying away from diapers (except for sleeping) seemed to speed along the process. I know some people that every time their kids have an accident they put a diaper or pull up on them and for some it took them 6 months to potty train - just for day time. (not sleep time)
When my daughter was little I had plastic pants that went over the panties (think these were used more for cloth diapers back in the day) With my son I couldn't find these so I invested in a carpet cleaning machine!