I know, if you think it’s too early, just don’t reply (please). I would love comments from others who have had success at this age or earlier.
Our daughter is 20 months old. She’s very used to using a potty. She’s had only one poop accident (while on FaceTime to me when I was traveling) between 17 months and today.
Speech wise, this kid has absolutely no problems telling us when she needs to use the potty. She says more words than we can count, can count to ten herself (while counting objects), can ask for what she wants and question things (“more chocolate muffin please,” “more mushroom please,” “what’s the cat doing there?”). She usually says potty please while peeing.
She pees regularly in the potty, sometimes all day no accidents. But we are still getting like one or two accidents every few days. Like she will go three days absolutely perfect and then have one day with two pee accidents.
Today, I knew she had to pee before we left the house, but she kept refusing our prompts. She peed five minutes after our last potty attempt. She said “potty please” mid-stream and finished on the toilet.
At lunch for her next pee, it had been 2 hours since her last pee and we had taken her on arrival to the restaurant, after the appetizers, and then two bites into her main course, she said “poo poo please” and peed as I carried her to the potty.
We are in underwear during the day. We go out a lot, so I was putting her in a pull up for activities. I just decided three days ago to stop the pull ups. I just read “Oh Crap.”
She has pull ups at nap and at night. She doesn’t pee during nap (maybe once a month, so I think maybe we should officially kill pullups). She has gone a full 12 hours at night with a pull up with no wake ups a number of times. If I wake her around 1am for a dream pee, she will have a dry nappy the whole night.
Do I need to start all over again with a naked day, then no underwear, then underwear? Do we just kill all pull ups and keep going and accept the occasional pee til she’s older?
It’s really stressing my husband out that she’s “a ticking pee time bomb.” But sometimes she does go like three hours without peeing (usually when she has to poop).
Shes so amazing and I don’t want to set her back, but I don’t really now if we can expect perfect potty training at this point? How do we get her to have fewer accidents?
She’s home, no nursery. I love taking her out on adventures daily though.