Baby Squared

And so it begins.  Good luck and thank you for sharing your experience!

Good luck with the rest of the weekend!  Fair warning: my good friend just did the boot camp with her 2y3m son.  Worked just as advertised and they're very happy, but she said they hit a major wall on the 2nd day.  The accident situation wasn't that bad, but they were just lower on motivation/enthusiasm/adrenaline, so it was a much more emotionally trying day.  3rd day was awesome.

Anyways, I always find it helpful to know that other people hit a wall, it helps me push through it.  Hope you have excellent news to report by Monday.  I look forward to hearing all about it, since I think this is the approach we'll take with our kids!

-Liz

I'm going to nominate you for the Nobel Pee Prize!

Sorry, that was bad.

We just started training our 2 yr 1.5 mo daughter.  You are an inspiration, I have no idea how I'd maintain the enthusiasm to encourage TWO toddlers at the same time (though, I'm first trimester pregnant, and I have little inspiration for ANYTHING right now).

If you have any hints or tips for getting past the hump of pooping on the potty, please, please, share.

Oh man, our time is coming soon!  Can't wait to hear how things go on Day 2.

I'm thinking about asking my mom to come help potty train, is that crazy?

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We are not attempting this yet with Cooper. He is almost ready but I think girls are generally earlier with these things than boys. Are you assuming you will not need those diapers at all? Most of the moms I know still used them at night and during naps for a period of time even though the children in question were fully potty trained while awake. At night is another story all together. Good luck! And we refuse to watch any Steve in our house. It is Joe or no Blue's Clues at all. Which makes me sad, because I prefer Steve myself.

We had a brief moment of poop success on Thursday, which has not been repeated yet.  We went through the whole day today in regular unders. Two poop accidents, but since I caught them early, they weren't too traumatic.  

It's getting better though. I think we can switch to underwear all day now.  At night we use Pull Ups.  I'm going to give away whatever diapers we have left. Pull Ups are basically the same thing.

Wow, Brenda invented a reward system.  Sort of like inventing common sense. Sure, I'll pay for that (as long as I can get one FREE).

Really -- that was exactly what I was thinking. ;-)  

Guess people really will buy anything if you package it up and call it a "method"

Uh, it's an ADVENT CALENDER, I think I have one of those around from LAST christmas! Perfect!

Good luck with the the potty training.

I've had success with potty proficiency, my daughter turned 2 this month. I had her go naked at first, and I put her potty in the same room that she was playing in, once she got good at using the potty, knowing when to go, etc. I started to move the chair back and back and then onto the big potty. Then I went for the big girl panties.

Good Luck!

@Amy: We didn't do potty training boot camp with my 3 year old, but we did have a poop in the potty problem.  She was completely dry during the day for weeks before she would poop in the potty.  She held it as long as she could, but would poop willingly in her pull-up, which we put on her for naptime.  If we didn't put a pull-up on at naptime, she would wait until she got one at bedtime.  This lasted for weeks, and then one day, she just...pooped in the potty.  And then did it again.  And we haven't had any accidents since then, which was a couple months ago.  I think we did stuff like demonstrate pooping on the potty (sorry, possible TMI), wave bye-bye to the poop as it flushed, offer small rewards for poop (which never worked).  I guess my suggestion would be not to sweat it too much, continue suggesting poop on the potty, talk it up, but don't push too hard, and your child will ultimately decide to work it out him- or herself.  I think if they have the basic idea of going potty down, it will just take a little longer to get over the poop issue.  I think I also read that toileting is a huge control thing for kids (understandably!), and your child might just be exerting control over his or her body in this way.  It doesn't make much sense to a grown up mind, but this is the way your kid is having some mastery of the potty situation on his/her terms.

If you're potty training for a deadline, like to get your child into preschool or something, you may need a more aggressive approach, but just kind of waiting it out worked pretty well for us.  Good luck!

And good luck with the twins, Jane!  I hope boot camp went weel.  Looking forward to updates when you can.

You can do it!  Just remember night training takes much longer. I read the average age of night training is 5.  I wasn't night trained until 7 due to urinary reflux. I have a guy friend who wet the bed up to age 11.  Totally normal guy now, just had a hard time with it.  I would still put some kind of protection on them at night as it takes a long time to master that.  

I think you will be very successful with the day training. You sound like you got a good routine and attitude about it. :)  Good luck sweetie.  I am rooting for you and taking notes. Our boot camp will be sometime in January.