Holding it in till nappy back on?

[Charlyfrog]

Not sure what to do here............

Although DD will sit on the potty, even taking her pants/nappy off herself etc, nothing comes out. We were doing regular toilet trip reminders so as to try a 'catch' that inevitable wee which inevitably came out between toilet trips and soaked her through

Tonight in the bath, she was busting and squirming so sat her on the potty and a little dribble came out but then she must've had stage fright as nothing more until we put her nappy on and then she relaxed and of course filled her nappy right up!

Its like she doesn't like the sensation of 'free' weeing......??

What did you do? Did anyone have the same thing and is it something she will just pick up on? How can we help her transition from holding it in to being ok with doing her wee in the potty? (btw, we've got the star charts all set up )

TIA

[Celsie]

Ah Charly - this one I do know!

Is this DD #1 or DD #2? Either way, do nappy free time and allow DD to feel wet. Most disposable nappies draw the wetness away, so they don't actually get to feel wet, so you need her to get used to that feeling. Also, if it's DD #1, it's going to be that much harder, because we train babies to go in their nappies, then they turn one or two and we change our minds and say, no... do it in a potty. It will just take some time for her to understand that wet feeling. When she does do it, you can say "Wee wee" or something else and use baby sign to give her a signal for wees. That way, eventually she'll put two and two together. And either tell you when she needs to go or sign.

We've been doing this with Caeleb and are having huge success.

Try getting DD # 2 a potty too, so they can do it together. Might encourage DD #1 to do it if baby sister is too.

HTH

Celsie. xoxox

Also...

She's holding on, because that's what she's been trained to do, so when you ask her to go somewhere else, she's like What the?!?

Also, try holding her over a sink or on the grass for a start. The potty may be a little too intimidating.

[Phteven]

Have you tried turning the tap on when she's sitting on her potty?
Often the running water will stimulate some action...

Yasin wasn't keen on the potty and it wasn't until I bit the bullet and put him in undies and resigned myself to cleaning up messes that we had any progress. The first day he peed on the floor every time and each time he peed I just took him to the potty and asked him to sit on it even though it was too late to build the connection. In the afternoon I saw that action was imminent so I plonked him on the potty in time then rang his Dad and praised him and so on. Since then he's being going great.
I just praise the success and ignore the misses and he seldom has an accident now.
I still haven't braved the outside without a nappy on him. That's the next frontier.