After I thought DD had mastered the toilet (wees at least), we are now back to being even worse than when we first started. Im so over it!! Going through at least three, if not four or five pairs of undies/pants a day, and she doesn't even seem to realise or care that she has wet herself. Getting her to sit on the toilet is a battle if she doesn't have to go, I ask all the time if she needs to go and the answer is always no.
What can I do?? So sick of it I'm just about ready to put day nappies back on her :/
Persevere with it. I know DD took a good three times with regression before she mastered it. Perhaps my DD wasn't quite ready when I thought she was but I didn't go back to nappies/pullups. I know it is a PITA to constantly wash but stick with it. Just keep reminding her to use the toilet & don;t make a big deal witht he soiled undies. I think I did that a few times & I think that contributed to DD being worse.
I am in the throws of TT regression with my DS. He initiated it and mastered it beautifully & within a day (daytimes) and then BAM along comes DS2 and every single wee/poo was in his jocks. He would rip off his nappy/pull up and refuse to wear anything but jocks. It has been an absolutle nightmare!!! I have tried absolutely everything - sticker charts, reward chocolates, over the top praise, ignoring the accidents, making him put his wet jocks in a bucket to take responsibility, over the top praising of DD, DH & myself. You name it we have done it. It's been 3 1/2 months now and we are only just starting to get somewhere again.
I would have put him back in day nappies but like I said he would just rip them off and put them in the bin.
How old is your DD? Has anything major happened in her life which has upset her enough to regress?
What are you feeling you want to do? Perservive or give it a rest for a while?
DD did exactly the same thing, it generally happened just before a tooth, new level in speech or something else like that ticking away on her brain. Its so frustartaing, isnt it Just take a deep breathe and know that it will happen eventually!
I was just about to start my own thread on this very thing. DD has been fine for months (not poo but that's a whole other thread) and in the last 2 weeks just keeps wetting.
DS1 has been TT for during day for a month for wees with only 2 accidents with wees in all that time, for a week we had no poo accidents either and bam this week we have had 4 (2 a day for last 2 days), I have been putting him in pullups as I am sick of scrubbing poo out of jocks as he doesn't tell me has done it he waits till I realise and by then all soft ans squished and FERAL.
DS2 did this for 6 months! He would go from being totally TT to totally un-TT for weeks at a time. It drove me insane. I wanted to go back to nappies so many times but persevered with it, and now almost 8 months after we started TTing, I can say he is fully TT with only very occasional accidents. What a battle it was though. As the others have said, you are not alone.
Ugh yeah, I hate pooey undies!! We have only had one little poo in the toilet so far though... I just wish she would go back to wees on the toilet! Been through a few pairs today, including pj's, and she was sitting on my lap at the time :/
Either she doesnt feel it, or she doesn't care.. Had a MAJOR tantrum at bedtime when I was trying to get her to just sit on the toilet to see if there was any wee there, which turned into a screeching contest and flat out refusal to let me clean her teeth as well. *sigh* I am glad she is in bed now...so sick of silly tantrums over everything!
There haven't been any major changes in her life..no new babies, no moving house or anything. DF & I have been/are going through a rough patch, so at first I thought it might be a result of that and all the tension in our house (crap parenting tip #101..). But she just seems to be getting worse and worse.
Feel like a failure..DD is back in nappies for the moment. I really didn't want to, but it was stressing me out so much having 5 or 6 pairs of wet pants a day, cleaning up puddles and not wanting to leave the house in case she had multiple accidents..plus we had a busy weekend and mum suggested I put a nappy on her just to alleviate the worry. Even worse I bought some disposables..she used to be in cloth nappies but they were just terry flats and if she does a wee in them now they leak as they just can't hold the volume...
She is refusing to use the toilet, and just seems to have no idea when she needs to go (no pants on she is mostly ok, but alas one cannot go pantless all the time!). I have to basically force her to go, and that's no fun for anyone, I don't think to going to help in the long run as it becomes such a battle.
We are off to Sydney for a few days at the end of next month, I'm thinking I should just leave it until after that to try again? Maybe she'll be more accepting of using the toilet after a break from it.. Just frustrating since I thought she was toilet trained (apart from poos, but I was happy enough to deal with them as at least she was out of nappies), and now we're going right back to square one, or even before square one since she's not even remotely interested in sitting on the toilet
I feel like I've broken her, but I dont know what I've done?!
How old is she? My dd2 was very stubborn so I put all the toilet training things away, potty, special seat, undies etc all went into the attic and she went back into nappies. Then one day she said she wanted to use th potty and she just did it. I had to wait if her to be ready and want to do it herself.
She'll be 3 in July (the 12th). She was going so well, had no accidents for at least a couple of months, then started
Going a bit up and down, then backwards and now we're here. She was quite happy to use the toilet before, told me when she needed to go, got lots of praise and made up silly songs, now nothing apart from 'we won't go and do xyz until you sit on the toilet' will get her to sit on there.
She seemed ready to do it, and 'got' it, and now it's like we never even tried! Might just have to suck it up and go back to nappies, was hoping she would be right by winter..and I was woo hoo'ing about much less washing/folding since I no longer had day nappies to wash, not to mention having to remember nappy changes and packing a nappy bag to go anywhere!
We had it here a couple of weeks ago. It did my head in because she had been so easy with training in the first place. We put her back in night nappies (still using them) and just started making a really big deal whenever she did make it to the toilet. It passed eventually.
Would a sticker chart help? maybe even just for trying, for sitting on the toilet?
DD1 (may 09 bubba, so nearly 3) is doing something similar. This morning she went into the backyard, squatted, and did a poo with the chickens. But we have at most 50% success at the moment, when she used to be in the 90%'s. Frustrating.
It is so frustrating! I think she has done one wee on the loo in the last few days?!? I really don't know if I should just forget about it for a little while, or keep pressing on, making her wear undies and sit on the toilet.. Stickers might help, she loves stickers, I don't know if that would be enough motivation though. Cant hurt to try! What's going to be better for her in the end though? And what do I do when we are out? Even when she has wet herself she doesn't seem to realise, and if I ask 'have you done a wee?' the answer is always no, either she doesn't realise or doesn't care..
(I think we may have had something Maruschke! Quite a while ago she was out the back with no pants on and told me she'd done a poo. Whether that was true or not im not sure, I never saw her do it or found the poo, but then sometimes our dog eats his own, so maybe he decided to eat it too.... *spew*
Wees outside I don't mind, I was brought up on a farm so 'bush wees' are familiar to me, I just wish she would tell me she needs to go!)
Last edited by ss_storm; April 10th, 2012 at 08:06 PM.
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Just take a deep breathe and know that it will happen eventually!
you're not a failure. Isaac did the same thing. He was doing really well then one day it just fell apart.
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