Potty Training!?
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Is she interested in big girl underwear? If you haven't taken her shopping for special Big Girl panties, do that. My son liked some with dinosaurs so we bought them. If they love the underwear they can understand they're not supposed to pee or poop in them.
Go light on breakfast on THE day you want to start, then serve pretzels and salty crackers to get her drinking lots of liquids. I also offered my son strawberry flavored milk, any liquid to get the pee flowing! Any juice or drink she likes and will drink a lot of is what you're looking for.
On THE day we started he had to pee and had an accident in his dinosaur undies. So we went to the bathroom, stood in front of the toilet to see if he could pee even one drop into the toilet. I did that EVERY time he peed his pants and told him just one drop in the toilet was using the potty! Small progress should be treated like a full blown bathroom trip in the beginning.
Also we had a great deal of success with the Flip N Flush, it attaches to your existing grown up toilet so there's no potty seat involvement. Why train them to pee on a potty then have to train them for the toilet? That's twice the work! Here's the link so you can look at the Flip N Flush - I installed it in 3 minutes flat and I'm not handy but I did that with no trouble at all.
http://www.onestepahead.com/jump.jsp?lge...
I was always with my son when he sat on top of the toilet, or stood on his stool in front of the toilet to pee. Keep books in the bathroom so you can read while you're waiting for her to go. There are good books for kids to read about using the potty but don't be surprised if she's not interested in them at first.
There will be accidents, there will be days when you want to scream because you've cleaned up 7 puddles of pee, but she'll get it. They all get it. I also went from diapers to undies, no pull ups. But if you're already in pull ups my girlfriend swears by this method...no more pull ups, buy diapers again. She doe NOT want to lay down to have her pants changed and that will boost her toward using the potty. But nothing was done to shame or embarrass the child. She told her they didn't have any pull ups so she would have to wear a diaper or pee in the toilet. Her little girl chose the toilet!
You and your baby will do fine. It's a skill and it has to be learned. Tiny bladders have to go often so she'll have lots of chances every day to get better at it! Best of luck to you and take care.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/parenting/your_kids...
http://www.practicalparent.org.uk/potty%...
Get her some pretty panties or panties with her favorite characters on them. It worked with my daughter. Good Luck.
Make it fun and LOTS of Praise. Buy a potty and keep it where they place the most (living room for us and yes you can put it away when you have company but it is important that it be close by and within sight).
Next, go buy a baby doll that wets. For the first five days just play with the doll. About 5-6 times a day feed the baby doll and then say, oh baby needs to potty and then have your daughter take the baby to the new potty take off her panties and go. when the doll goes clap and yell and make a big deal out of it "YEAHHHHH".
You probably wont even make it the 5 days before your daughter wants to try it herself. Start by waiting 30 minutes after breakfast. Feed the doll and then take the doll to the potty. PRAISE THE DOLL and then say YOUR TURN. Take off her diaper and sit her down. Wait a few minutes and then let her up. The point is to get her use to the potty and not to pressure her. Keep up with the doll and soon she will get the idea. Lastly, limit her drinking but not letting her carry around a sippy all day. This will help you know when she has to go. Good luck and HAVE FUN WITH IT!
Make it fun. No yelling . Put it where you got to the bathroom. That helps. I don't know because my daughter is only 1 but this is what people tell me.
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