This is part two to How I potty Trained my 15 month old son.
Well, as I left off in the last post about potty training, I had a 10 month old daughter who was still in diapers due to my pregnancy sickness.
This is what happened next. We started renovations on our house in NC, which sent our lives into upheaval again, and so I really was inconsistent with the potty. We packed up our house and moved to NY. Once we got there and got settled, I tried to get consistent again with the potty, but it was off and on for months, until I finally had baby number three last September, and my daughter was then 17 months.
As soon as I had that baby I got dilligent with my daughter about the potty. I rewarded her this time with Skittles, since she already knew what to do with a potty, but was not motivated enough to give up the diapers for good. Boy did those Skittles work wonders. Suddenly she was interested in putting her pee in the potty. I spent a good two months undoing my inconsistent training of her. I put the Baby Bjorn potty chair out in the living room again. But after those two months of really taking her to the potty, asking her if she needed the potty, and having a couple accidents (more at home than out and about) she was finally ready for training panties all day long at 19 months.
We had two or three accidents outside of the house. Mostly during times when I was unavailable to help her. But then at 20 months, no more accidents. Now she is 21 months old, and has been a month in big girl panties. I taught her how to pull her own pants up and down, and now she takes HERSELF to the baby potty all day long while we are at home. She holds her pee up to 2.5 hours now, and really becomes distressed if she has to hold it longer. She also does make her poopy in the potty too.
She is gaining ground in the night time training. As I did with my son I am just letting it take its course. I put her in a pull up for naps and night time and she wakes up from naps dry half the week. The night time diapers seem to be less wet too. I am very excited to declare her day time trained. I cannot wait to see night time training too!
On to baby number three. She is five months old, and any day now, I plan to start training her. I wonder if I can finish HER by 12 months?? I have noticed a few things about her already however… she doesn’t go every fifteen minutes like my middle child did. In fact many times I go to change her and she is dry. Then I wait a bit longer and she is soaked. So she seems to already hold it a bit. This makes it harder for me to determine WHEN to take her to the potty. Also, she already thinks that the diaper is for the pee… and holds back when I do put her on the potty when she wakes up dry… up to fifteen minutes or more, after a two hour nap and waking dry! WHOA.
Well, new baby, new challenges. I cannot wait to embark.
MRs. Meg LOgan
P.S. if anyone has specific questions about this please feel free to post them or email me (if that is available on my site I can’t recall). I would love to address them for you.
