u/sevendayhigher

Hey everyone,

We’re on day 11 of the oh crap method and I don’t really know what to think. To cut a long story short, our son has plateaued at two accidents every day. He doesn’t self-initiate and sometimes the accidents are a pee and poop, mostly two pees - but always two, except for yesterday. They’re never at the same times of day or anything, but to be honest it makes me feel a bit hopeless about improvement.

He’s fairly resistant to the potty or toilet and needs bribing a fair bit.

Today I was really disappointed because he had only one accident yesterday and only one this morning, so I hoped we’d keep the streak but he’s just wet himself again… At this point it feels like we’ll never get back to our normal life!

Can somebody give me a virtual shake and tell me I’m being impatient about this? Or does it sound like it’s really not working for us? I don’t even know anymore!

Hey everyone, I would so appreciate your advice!

We’re on day 5 of the oh crap method and put our son in trousers/pants but no underwear on day 3, the day after it seemed to “click” for him.

Yesterday (day 4), he had two wee accidents in his trousers/pants.

Today he’s had one wee accident and one poop accident in his trousers, plus a wee on the floor while naked after getting out of the bath.

He’s doing the classic resistance to prompts now but we are getting him on there with a mix of small bribes/telling him he’s got to go before meals/bedtime etc.

What’s worrying me is that he’s never once self-initiated a potty or toilet trip while in trousers, and only did it once when he was naked on day one and two. It’s stressing me out that he never seems to know when he’s about to go until one second before the pee starts. There are truly no queues at all before the shocked look on his face and he starts peeing. He does recognise verbally that he’s peed his pants/trousers once he‘s done it.

Should we go back to naked while he learns those signs in his body and self-initiates more? Or is the most important thing of all to make sure we have the dry pants/trousers thing down before that, as the book seems to suggest?

Desperate for advice please! Thank you!