Potty Training Issues - Houston, TX

We're potty training our almost two year old right now and it's going so much easier than when we trained her sister last year. The main thing we did differently is no pull ups in the house! We put her in panties with the plastic covers that you can get at babies r us on over it. We're still having different potty training issues because I'm just not very good at potty training but not using the pull ups have really helped. She can have a pull up when we go out somewhere and usually she stays dry in them for a long time if not the whole time we're out. If I were you I would not give in and let her have a pull up. Just put her in panties and let her know where the potty is. If she has an accident in her panties, make her change her clothes since she is old enough to know not to do that. I hope it gets better soon.

I put big boy underwear on my son 3.5 years old and then when he had an accident, he had to clean it up and change his own clothes. (I only started this after about a week of thinking my hair was going to start falling out from cleaning up all the peepee and poop in the house and in the underwear!!)

I supervised of course, but he had to take off the wet/soiled underwear and clothes, he had to wipe up all the poop (I would step in after about 10 wipes or so to help him finish up). He had to put on the new clothes. The first time he wiped his own poop he started gagging and telling me it was yucky and gross. I told him mommy thought so too and that putting it in the potty was so much nicer than having to clean it up. He had to clean it up two or three times and then decided to use the potty. Of course I really think it was having to clean himself and the fact he didn't want poop on his "animals" the ones printed on the underwear. (He would poop on Thomas the Train and Spiderman, but not the animal ones (go figure!).

Anyways, just my two cents on what helped at our house. I understand your pain I was there just 4 very short weeks ago!
Good luck and a big {{{{hug}}}}}

We also put our daughter in big girl panties all the time. We went totally cold turkey. Even at nap and bed time. Here are some things we did to make it easier.
-CROCS! Taking an extra set of clothes is easy especially in the summer. Shoes were a pain. She filled her shoes once and I bought crocs. They rinse and dry quickly and easily. She had one accident in public, but several at preschool. The teachers really liked this though. To really sanitize them, you can wash them in the top rack of the dish washer, just be sure to wash an empty load again before more dishes.
-Two mattresses. She was still in a toddler bed. We bought an extra mattress and had it already made up. I there was an accident, we switched mattresses. She went back to bed, laundry went in the wash and mattresses got bleached down and aired out. You will save the money on diapers in the long run. This only happened 2X. I couldn't be happier.
-We also had her clean up after herself. We of course cleaned up after her when she was done.
Pull ups didn't work for us at all. She knew they were diapers because we had to use them since she was about 14mo old. She would not stop playing long enough to lay down for a diaper change. They were great. She learned to change her own diaper around 18 mo. She needed help wiping but she did the rest herself, including throwing it away. LOL. She has always been more independent then I like.
My dd has a cousin that is 3 mo older then her. my daughter is now 3yrs old but she has been compleatly traied for nearly a year. Her cousin still uses pull ups, so she has continued to withhold. By all means, If it comes to tummy cramps and sever withholding, give her a diaper. She will do it in her own time.
Good luck.

Being consistent is the key. I have a three year old, and I use to work in the toddler room at a daycare where I potty trained quite a few little ones. Keeping your daughter in panties is the way to go. It's definitely not as fun to clean up, but your daughter will feel when she has an accident instead of the pull up protecting her. Try not to make a big deal out of it when she does have an accident but reward her or give her lots of praise when she does make it successfully to the potty!

M.
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This advice was given to my by my son's doctor.

She told me to put him in big boy underwear all the time. At first he had many accidents. After the 3rd day he started telling me when he needed to go. We started this last week and his is 99% potty trained! The idea is thay they get tired of being wet/dirty so they learn to tell you when they need to potty.

I modified this and would put him in a Pull Up when we would go out in public just for myself (I didn't want to clean up in public).

Now the only time he has an accident is when he is too "busy" playing and forgets to tell me.

Try using this method on you daughter. You never know it might work. It does cause a lot of work on your part (wet/dirty clothers all the time) but in the end if it works...all is well!

GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!

Leave her naked. You may clean up a little pee and poo, but we did it with both of ours. 1 accident with my daughter and 2 with my son. She was 2 and he was 2 1/2. They will get it. They have to get diaper "untrained". Her whole life she has been going in her pants and now it is habit and she doesn't even realize it until it is too late. Leaving them naked for a few days will make them more aware. Pull ups we only used when going out and at night because I don't want to wash bedding every day. But he has been dry at night for awhile. And with my son, he would wait to poop until he went to bed so I would wait until he was asleep and then go in and put it on him. I agree pull ups are not good for training though. But if you go right to underwear you may be cleaning poop out of them which I refused to do. Crocs are also a great idea like the other poster said! good luck.