Let me tell you that the thing I dislike the most about being a mother is potty training. That is right, it is NOT my forte and my children will be the first to tell you so. Bailyn started potty training when she was 22 months old. She decided she needed to go potty one day and she went on the toilet that whole night without an accident. After about a week she got lazy and didn't want to do it anymore. I didn't push too hard because she wasn't even 2 yet. We kind of tried off and on until she was about 2 and 1/2. By that time I was pregnant again and didn't want 2 kids in diapers. So we aggressively started potty training. She had it down a couple months before Trev was born and guess what? Major regression... :( I didn't know what to do, but cry my eyes out and pretty much want to pull my hair out with that. Finally I decided, "You know what? I do not care! Wear diapers, be lazy, but I am done." My thoughts were that I would give her some time to realize that she was not a baby and hopefully she would want to go for it. I took her panties away and she just wore diapers. So as soon as I stopped caring, she stopped wetting. She kept asking when she would get her panties back and I just told her that I didn't know. I think after about 3 weeks of no accidents day or night she finally earned them back. Yippee right!?!?! That is what I thought until about a week or two ago when she started going in her panties again. I tell you what, this is what I get for being a critical mother that said my children won't act that way...my children will be potty trained by the time they are 2 and 1/2...my children will do what I say and won't act out like those other children, huh? So needless to say I am a clueless mother who really does not know what to do with this situation, but I have taken Bailyn's panties away yet again. I did this behind her back and last night she asked, "Are my panties a lost treasure?" This is what I mean...how could I not laugh at that. But I have spent hours crying over this situation too becuase nothing seems to really drive her to be a big girl. Any answers? Who knows, but for now Bailyn's panties are a "lost treasure" sitting on top of a shelf in the laundry room, but she doesn't know that now, does she?!?!?
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You are not alone. Allie was potty trained for over a year. Dry night and day! Don't know what happened. By this point my baby was about 6 or 8 months old (Could have been delayed onset regression right)? It started with her peeing on the bathroom floor or the stool in there. Wasn't even trying to make it to the bathroom. It then later spread to everywhere else in the house. I tried time out, treats, diapers, stickers, etc. You name it I tried it. Nothing worked. I just kept her in her diapers and stopped asking her if she had to go and told her she was in charge and when she was ready to be a big girl I would help her go potty in the toilet. It took some time (MONTHS) but we finally made it (AGAIN!).
Not a fun thing to have to deal with once. Really not fun dealing with it twice. GOOD LUCK.
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