u/Pretty-Flatworm2388

My 22 month old daughter had her first ever dry night last night and just had a dry nappy this morning. Last couple of days she is showing she needs a wee by pulling on her nappy, we whip it off and get her on the potty as soon as we can but she refuses to wee on the potty, she will happily sit on it with no nappy but will stand up and wee next to the potty.

She comes to the toilet with me, wipes herself with me at the toilet and knows the general ins and outs of toileting but I just can’t get her to go on the toilet with a seat or on the potty, she’s so close! I’ve tried bubbles while she sits on it, some tv she loves like Ms Apple, Mr Tumble, even tickling her 😂 how do I get her to pee??

TIA x

I know that sound obvious? Just work, that’s the problem, I am working, I’m 25 (f) and work part time so I can look after my child the rest of the time, child is only 1 and only have childcare available 3 days a week, in these 3 days I work a part time job (the only days I can work, I don’t have a village to raise her, just me and my partner).

My partner works full time 40 hours a week (25M) and brings home enough of a wage so we can pay the bills and get the shopping, I do pay some bills too, water, council tax, tv licence, WiFi, both our phone bills. The problems comes with my little one, she is often ill, luckily only minor illnesses, coughs, colds, stomach bugs and I’m not one of them parents to send her in when she’s ill, I keep her at home and look after her myself, this has meant missing work 4 times in total since October when I started, now my job has been threatened. I can’t afford to not work, but I am a parent first of all. If I stop working, we can’t afford the basics, the bills will be paid and our child will be fed but we wouldn’t be able to feed our selves. Why is being a working, contributing mum so difficult? Any advice is more than welcome, fed up of being skint a week after pay day as it is, don’t want to sink into debt if I get sacked for looking after my child.