serious potty learning. you know the stage. you stay at home because they are doing so well you are afraid to mess it all up. almost every conversation, if it isnt about going potty, is interrupted with "do you need to go potty? are you sure?". the preferred clothing is babylegs (or homemade) and a tank top.

its one of those days where i wonder if i will ever be able to have a conversation again, that doesnt revolve around the toilet...

although i should be happy and hush up, if this keeps on she will be the only childe of mine to potty learn before age 3.

i know exactly what you are talking about! we've had 2 straight days of "boop" in the potty & most "bees" make it there too.

journey is mostly naked all of the time. if she has on a diaper, she uses it. if she has on undies, she dribbles in them & then asks to go to the potty.

and yes, every conversation or meal is interrupted by "do you need to potty";)

Well if you want I can send you a 3 1/2 yo and you can convince him that he can poop on the potty. If you do so you will have my eternal gratitude and my dh will probably throw in some cash. :lol:

:joker:

My boys were both 3+ before they would even consider using the potty. Olivia is almost fully potty-trained and she is not even 2! I am stunned. She is naked most of the time at home and that seems to work best. She is more prone to accidents if she has clothes on! She hasn't worn a diaper in a month...except when we go out and I put a mother-ease trainer on her. We went out yesterday and it was hours later, after we got home when I decided to check her to see if she was wet and needed to go to the bathroom...and she was dry! She stays dry through the night too! Astounding! My older one still wets the bed sometimes. Funny how they are all different.

Ahhhh.... yes! We've been very lucky in that DS caught on very well to putting tee-tee's in the potty - he was pretty good at it by his second birthday. But he has only now realized that poop can go in there too!

And he's the same way - if he has a dipe on, he'll use it (though he has more recently removed a dipe a coupla times to use the potty instead) but if he's naked, he'll use the potty. Naptimes are definitely still diapered. We are just now experimenting with taking these habits on the road as we run errands, and so far with fair luck. The poop is still way unpredictable though, and I HATE having to clean up poop when he's only wearing undies and shorts!!! (I really should purchase some cloth trainers... I'm refusing to spend money on "pull-ups." (I do have some PUL and fleece and such... anybody have a pattern recommendation?)

And also so far, not much deviant potty behavior - except that I did catch him pee'ing in the salad spinner and in a mixing bowl once... hope that's the end to that experiment!

And LOL - his proud Daddy has already taught him to pee standing up! His aim is very impressive, except if there is music on and he feels the need to dance mid-stream...

we are so with you Branwyn! Sully has yet to poop on the potty but he's doing splendid about peeing!

I'm gonna have to try the no diaper or undie thing...i'm so paranoid about it getting on the carpet that I haven't..Yes..it's all about potty over this way, too. Eli now changes his own diapers..talk about annoying..if he would just take it off and go potty instead of take it off, hit the floor and get a new diaper..I'd be so freaking relieved. Never thought toilet training a little autist would be such a chore..

ITA
there for a while she was telling me she needed to go now she doesnt
i put panties on here and she paid right in them.
and when i ask her if she needs to go its always no no
i hate to force her to go to the potty?
shew im at a loss feeling

Grant did good on the potty for a little while, but he down right refuses now. I am hoping that being around his bud Levi will help him to go again. I am soooo ready for him to be out of diapers.

then you need this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFVoLz88hiU&mode=related&search=) for yer kiddo to watch!

warning! does have subtitles saying poop and such!

:hahaha:

I am there with Mark right now. Yesterday I called dh and actually left a message saying Mark pooped in the potty. Dh called me back with his co-workers clapping and screaming in the background "GO MARK!!! GOOD JOB!!" It was then that I realized I needed a hobby of some sort. At any rate, Mark is making progress or I'm timing things better...maybe both. But with the attention that Miss Abby needs, I'm not sure if I picked the best time to potty train. My 7 yr old even obsessively asks him if he needs to go potty. Such a leetle momma.

I am there with Mark right now. Yesterday I called dh and actually left a message saying Mark pooped in the potty. Dh called me back with his co-workers clapping and screaming in the background "GO MARK!!! GOOD JOB!!" It was then that I realized I needed a hobby of some sort. At any rate, Mark is making progress or I'm timing things better...maybe both. But with the attention that Miss Abby needs, I'm not sure if I picked the best time to potty train. My 7 yr old even obsessively asks him if he needs to go potty. Such a leetle momma.
:lol: man...there are some funny threads today..i'm laughing out loud literally. b/c we have had several phone calls like that...calling daddy, granny, nana, our little buddies.! haha!

jackson stayed dry all day yesterday and all day today except for nap time. so..here's hoping it continues.

i would like to get him some cloth trainers like i had for savannah (hers are way too small for him).

Julie - what kind of cloth trainers did you use with SJ? I keep thinking I'm going to make some for Levi, but not getting around to it, and then thinking I should just buy some...

So far, we've still used dipes when he's at church, and undies otherwise. He's doing rather fine with the undies, but since he's still not great with the pooping in the potty, sometimes we have more of a mess than I'd rather deal with.

I also wonder if the trainers might come across as more of a diaper to him too - since he's been wearing undies - and it might be a backtrack for him.

Julie - what kind of cloth trainers did you use with SJ? I keep thinking I'm going to make some for Levi, but not getting around to it, and then thinking I should just buy some...

So far, we've still used dipes when he's at church, and undies otherwise. He's doing rather fine with the undies, but since he's still not great with the pooping in the potty, sometimes we have more of a mess than I'd rather deal with.

I also wonder if the trainers might come across as more of a diaper to him too - since he's been wearing undies - and it might be a backtrack for him.

we used the motherease trainers. they are just pull on elastic waist with a terry inside and a very soft absorbant outside. basically it was something that were she to have an accident it would help the mess on the floor or whatever not be as great.

we're just using pullups right now and he'll wear 2 a day...one during the day (that gets peed in at naptime) and then one he wears after nap into bed.

Yeah - I just bought our first pull-ups yesterday - mainly for church use.
If he would only get the pooping down, we could quit spending money! (well - except for those nighttime dipes - those Huggies overnights are the only thing we've found that don't leak during the night).

He is pooping in the potty more, but last Thursday while he was at Lacy's, he finally admitted it out loud... she let him sit on the potty for a good while before his nap (when he often poops) and he finally told her "don't want to poop in potty." So she put a dipe on him and 5 mins. later he pooped.

Yeah - I just bought our first pull-ups yesterday - mainly for church use.
If he would only get the pooping down, we could quit spending money! (well - except for those nighttime dipes - those Huggies overnights are the only thing we've found that don't leak during the night).

He is pooping in the potty more, but last Thursday while he was at Lacy's, he finally admitted it out loud... she let him sit on the potty for a good while before his nap (when he often poops) and he finally told her "don't want to poop in potty." So she put a dipe on him and 5 mins. later he pooped.

yea...i hear that's pretty common though for my kids that's been the first thing they'll do on the potty. go figure.

with savannah i put her in panties earlier and was more conscious of accidents and taking her to the potty more vigilantly...but with jackson...i'd rather just have him in a pullup and not worry about it. he seems to be learning just fine in a pullup.

well now shes refusing to go unless she has a diaper on...stubborn. wonder where she gets that from?

{{{hugs}}}

well shes started peeing on the potty again, but she still will only poop in the floor or she waits until we put on her nighttime diaper....

the trials and tribulations..sophie will now pee on the potty but not every time. I've gone thru about 6 pr. of undies today..and she took off the diaper earlier today and pooped on the ground outside..that was kind of messy..

SHE POOPED IN THE POTTY! wahoooooooooooooooo

yeah i know it wont last, but we are still excited :D

awesome - sully still won't do it , almost a month later and he's been prefering a diaper too.....

WAY TO GO,Sarah!:D:D:D:D:D:D

Sophie is worse..she misses the potty, removes her diaper and goes to dump the poop in the potty..makes a huge mess across the floor every time..ugh..

so its been a few days and shes been consistently going on the potty (except at night when shes sleeping of course). wow. its weird. my youngest has learned the potty during the day. time to go and by some panties.

Sophie is just getting there, herself. I was just coming to post that I'm a lousy mom for letting her wear boy undies because I haven't bought girl ones yet :D
Yes, I'm that cheap..I figure we'll go get girl ones after she poops on the potty..

we went over to ciaras house today, i had sarah in panties outside of the house for the first time and no accidents :D

You're so lucky! I asked Anna when she was going to stop using diapers and be a potty pooper and she told me, "Maybe when I'm seven...or when I drive a car."


She's so incredibly, incredibly stubborn. It doesn't help that her bowels are as stubborn (or more ) than she is and we have to keep giving her Miralax all the time which makes it difficult for her to guess when she's going to need to do business.

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he he..this morning I got up a little later than usual..Sophie got up at 6am and I put TV on for her so I could take a nap..I got up to a bowl full of pee and poop RIGHT NEXT to the potty..I said to her, "What happened to the poop?" she replies, "I sorry mommy, I missed"...

Could have died laughing had I not been so tired hehehehehe

Sophie is just getting there, herself. I was just coming to post that I'm a lousy mom for letting her wear boy undies because I haven't bought girl ones yet :D
Yes, I'm that cheap..I figure we'll go get girl ones after she poops on the potty..

:lol: journey loves wearing cole's old "nunnies" as she calls them. some have race cars & boats & busses! they're the gerber ones, but i think we're ready to ditch them & get pretty big girl undies!!! she's been accident free for a few weeks now, only wears a dipe at nite/naptime. & if you tell her not to wet the dipe/pullup she says "i wo-ont" (2 syllable word there;)) & ask her where her pee pee & poo poo goes & she will tell you that it goes "in that yah yee"!

We are not quite that far..but I did go buy her some undies today because she refused to wear boy undies anymore :lol:

Yay! Yay! Yay!

So I was talking this over with SouthernLace... about DS not wanting to poop in the potty. Their seemed to be 2 reasons for it: he seems to like privacy when he's pooping, and he always gets into a deep squat to poop. So SL suggested I show him how to sit on the big potty in a squat position - in a way that he can safely climb up there himself.

So 2 times today I showed him how to do this - not at points where I thought he needed to poop, just showing him how to if he wanted to. After his nap, I was ironing when I heard the potty lid go up. I snuk in there, and sure enough! He'd climbed right up and was sitting there pooping!

Wow - I see the end to dipes and trainers. I even see the end to cleaning up the "little potty."

haha...great!

we don't do little potties here...too ew to clean up. just the big one. make sure they have a stool to put their feet on too.

The one child I used a little potty with, I lined it with an old grocery bag and 2 folded paper towels. Easy clean up for pee or poop and I was using the zillion bags I refuse to throw away.

I don't mind cleaning the little potty that much. It was actually really easy until DS started getting creative with his aim. (He always pee's standing up). I don't think the one we have was made with that in mind... there's lots of little nooks and crannies that pee gets into from a standing-up position. The little potty has been a HUGE contributor to his potty learning - he's such a busy boy that there's NO WAY he'd stop what he was doing to go into another room to pee. With the little potty in the living room, he doesn't even have to put down all his toys to run over there and go pee LOL!