Calling all potty trainers

Re: Calling all potty trainers

feeds@yuku.com (ChicagoRN2) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:42:18 GMT

Funny...I said the same thing. I swore my daughter was going to be potty trained before my son...but he won! Thankfully! Everyone says I should start on her potty training...but I just can't bring myself to begin again just yet. Try the chat forum with Dr. Greene. I think you'll find it helpful. Arrive early and you'll be the first (or second) one on the agenda and the you can ask your question and leave if time constraints are an issue. I've read the spirited child and even...

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feeds@yuku.com (Shadow cat) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:08:21 GMT

Thanks Chicago! I have never used a chat forum before but I am certainly open to it. I'm hoping I will be available for it... I will probably send you an e-mail too. The more advice the better, I guess! My son is 18 mos & potty training is the last thing on my mind with him. Although at this stage, it feels like he may be potty trained before his sister!! LOL!

Re: Calling all potty trainers

feeds@yuku.com (ChicagoRN) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:45:02 GMT

Shadow Cat...I feel your pain and frustration! I know where you're at, because I've been there. I hope that you use Dr. Greene's chats as a tool as you see fit to get guidance for your individual issues. You can also email me if you want to discuss further as I've lived it and read so many books about it that I could probably teach a class on it by now! I have a 2 year old daughter that I haven't even thought about potty training because I'm still so traumatized by...

Re: Calling all potty trainers

feeds@yuku.com (Shadow cat) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:18:36 GMT

I'm new to this forum and desperately looking for some guidance.

Chicago, I read your story & got goose bumps. My daughter, who will be 4 in December, was a colicky baby as well and it started to ease off when she was about 5 months old. But I always new she was "different". She fought naps, resisted change, very sensitive, extremely observant, cried over seemingly minor things, fearful and cautious but very affectionate & caring. I don't deal with...

Re: Calling all potty trainers

feeds@yuku.com (ChicagoRN2) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:40:03 GMT

Tamyra...it sounds like you and I headed down the same path. Great advice! I, too, got the whole preschool/pottytraining nudging because my son HAD to be potty-trained in order to go to the preschool. I couldn't make him, so I opted to put him in the class with 18 month - 2.5 year olds (when he was 3.5) to allow him to still get the preschool experience rather than hold him back and punish him for being a little slower than others to accomplish it. He LOVED that class. It's so...

Re: Calling all potty trainers

feeds@yuku.com (3b1g) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:56:56 GMT

First of all,

You've found the right place for help and we will work together to help you succeed.

Have you seen Dr. Greene's article "Learning to Poop in the Potty"? It discusses this very issue:

http://www.drgreene.com/21_762.html

AND...

Re: Calling all potty trainers

feeds@yuku.com (ChicagoRN2) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:27:47 GMT

Hi Angie... I know how you're feeling. I had a neighbor who's son also held all poop until bedtime and then did his pooping. Hard to break that pattern. Her pediatrician actually had her use an enema for her son. One enema was all it took for her son to stop saving the poop until bedtime. However, her son was 5 when this happened. Your daughter is still rather young. You've got time to work on the pooping....slowely...at her pace. My son poop trained at 4 years and 3 months....and...

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feeds@yuku.com (KUAngie) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:08:00 GMT

My daughter turned 3 in April. She has been pee trained for over a year. She won't poop, except in a diaper. It really is a control thing for her. She will poop when we put a diaper on at naptime, or bedtime. Recently, for about a month, we kept her in panites for naptime- she stayed dry, and didn't poop. So she'd poop at bedtime, or during the middle of the night, and wake up with horrible diaper rash. Even with the diaper rash, she refuses to poop on the potty. Then...

Re: Calling all potty trainers

feeds@yuku.com (3b1g) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:54:57 GMT

Luke was an amazing baby, once we figured out he was lactose intolerant. Super smart, cuddley, was ready to potty train at 18 months, rarely cried....I mean just amazing all the way around. The type of baby that people with difficult children would say "if I had just one like him I would have had a lot more". We did, two more times. All of my kids are intelligent, Adam is by far the best behaved so far...Kathryn oddly enough, is my most mellow, Jason is EVERYWHERE but was easiest...

Re: Calling all potty trainers

feeds@yuku.com (Gortday) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:30:21 GMT

rebecca53183 wrote:
Somehow I managed to get the pretty good baby all around...she has always been the one to decide to do it on her own regardless of what it is and 9 times out of 10 it was sooner than average. She is 19 months today and pooped twice in the potty today, she has been peepeeing in the potty for a month with a few accidents and many false alarms (she fibbed and said she had to go but just wanted to destroy the...

Re: Calling all potty trainers

feeds@yuku.com (Truddlebug) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:16:34 GMT

Whoooo Hoooo that is great news!

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feeds@yuku.com (3b1g) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:57:08 GMT

cross your fingers...second day no poopy pants...

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feeds@yuku.com (Truddlebug) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:53:11 GMT

With my kids my girlss were far easier than my son - but thankfully no major issues with any of them. Pure luck I am sure!

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feeds@yuku.com (rebecca53183) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:50:11 GMT

Somehow I managed to get the pretty good baby all around...she has always been the one to decide to do it on her own regardless of what it is and 9 times out of 10 it was sooner than average. She is 19 months today and pooped twice in the potty today, she has been peepeeing in the potty for a month with a few accidents and many false alarms (she fibbed and said she had to go but just wanted to destroy the bathroom) admittedly she was a bit difficult the first few weeks but she has gotten...

Re: Calling all potty trainers

feeds@yuku.com (Truddlebug) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:46:49 GMT

What an amazing story Chicago, and one that will bring hope to many parents facing this struggle themselves. Thanks so much for sharing, and Welcome to our discussion boards!

Re: Calling all potty trainers

feeds@yuku.com (ChicagoRN2) — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:20:57 GMT

I feel for you and I've been there! I bought a treasure chest full of potty toys, maze books (which he loves!) and even promised him a poop party with balloons/cake/ice cream....he just didn't care. It was control with him. The pull ups worked very well for me but they're not for everyone. Since he's on medication for stool holding, there's no way in heck I'd be cleaning anything like that off my carpets. The hole in the pull ups was actually pure genius! It shocked...

Re: Calling all potty trainers

feeds@yuku.com (3b1g) — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:59:39 GMT

Thanks Chicago!

My guy, Jason, is in the 2yr old room and he's officially 3 1/2. I think what is most frustrating is his twin sister is trained. I'm working on the timer right now. I also will not do pull ups. But when he poops his pants I make him clean it up. put the poop in the toilet then take the plastic pant/training pant and put it in the washing machine. All I do is wipe his hiney. When he pees on the floor he has to get a towel and 'clean it up'...of course...

Re: Calling all potty trainers

feeds@yuku.com (ChicagoRN) — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:35:11 GMT

I know your level of frustration. Check out my story in this same category called "The Long Road to Potty Training...My story". It might give you some ideas or at least some hope!

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feeds@yuku.com (ChicagoRN2) — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:43:15 GMT

Let me start out my story by stating my son Matthew is probably a bit more difficult than the average child. He was born VERY colicky. All the books told me colic should pass by 3-6 months, however, Matthew's didn't pass until 8 months. He's never been textbook at anything. He's more sensitive, more high-strung, and needs more of a set schedule than the average kid. He's also not a fan of change in general. I've always known that any time a big change were to occur,...

Re: Calling all potty trainers

feeds@yuku.com (3b1g) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:32:11 GMT

I'm trying something new...crossing my fingers it works. I set the alarm on my cell phone. It's the 'potty' alarm. It goes off every 20 minutes (it's a countdown thing). When it goes off I tell Jason it's the 'potty' alarm. Yesterday was 'mostly' okay.

You may not like this, but.....

You need to ditch the pull ups unless it's overnight sleep. Jason called them "diapers" and I knew OIY it's a bad idea.

Try...

Calling all potty trainers

feeds@yuku.com (3b1g) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:25:53 GMT

Hopefully several mom's I've tried to help out in AAL will be joining me here. Let's all jump in...everyone interested...and get these little ones potty trained together!

Lets share idea's and successes. Join in with WOO HOO, he went poopy today! even if it's just one day.

What have you found that is working. What is backfiring??

I sincerely hope you AAL ladies are checking this out and PLEASE join in. It will help to know I'm not...