Toddler not communicating potty needs
I’ve started potty training with my toddler (21 month girl) after doing lazy ec since she as about 4 months old. We were getting really consistent pees and poops in the morning on the potty for a long time, and then suddenly she just got really inconsistent. Sometimes pee, sometimes poo, sometimes nothing at all on the potty for days. I chalked it up to my getting pregnant and not being consistent enough with my morning sickness, and her sensing the changes happening. Well, we’re out of the thick of that now, and I decided it’d be nice to have her potty trained before baby #2 comes along.
We’ve been going at this for about a week now, and if I happen to put her on the potty when she needs to go (usually every 2 hours, sometimes every hour), she will happily go on the potty. If I don’t get the timing right, she does not tell us she needs to go and just goes in her pants. We’re using chocolates as treats for going in the potty, and she is thrilled and understands that if she goes in the potty she will get one, because as soon as she starts peeing on the potty she requests her treat.
Does anyone have any recommendations about how to communicate to their toddler that she needs to tell us before she goes? No amount of ‘tell mama when you need to do a pee’ seems to convince her to tell us before the fact.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Caroline