Just checking back in now that this group is 3/hitting 3...how many of the kids are PT'd? Or close? Or not even trying?

Colin is not trained. He has days when he's interested, days when he's so not interested and against it that it will hurt more to push it so I leave it alone. Aidan was like that too, and about 3 weeks after turning 3 he was ready. I'm not holding my breath, but I'm hopeful! Colin has his zamboni all picked out for when the diapers go away, and he does like to talk about that all the time. A start, but a long road ahead.

We are officially 100% potty trained! So freakin happy. We just gave up the nighttime pullups this week! She will be 3 at the end of March and it was my goal that she be there by age 3.. she did it!

Patrick is potty trained during the day and only has had a few accidents in the past month. He is still in pull ups but I am planning on putting him in underwear during the day by the end of the month. He still wets at night so I continue to put him in the diaper. Christopher didn't get trained until he was a few weeks past age three so we are ahead of the game with Patrick!

Lora

Julia has been potty trained (both day and night) for coming up on a year now...wow, I can't believe it's been that long!! :eek:

We are pretty much there during the daytime with Abby but Drew has no interest whatsoever... his standard answer over the last few months was that he was going to go on the potty when he was three. Big birthday yesterday but no sitting on the potty yet. Hopefully we will get there soon. I would LOVE to be out of diapers before #3 arrives but I'm not holding my breath!

Go see my thread...

http://www.onceuponalife.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25544

I'm at a loss...

Dylan is fully potty trained during the day and has been wearing undies for a few months now. He has even started standing up to pee, still wears a pull up at night but I'm not pushing the issue at the moment. (Especially with a new baby in the house)

Anna is in the "not even trying" category. :blue: I think I'll give her a nudge in the next month or two. She doesn't care about being wet, and will pee and poop anywhere but the toilet. She agreed not to wear diapers anymore, but not to using the potty. When I asked her where she would pee and poop, she answered "the carpet." She'll strip naked if she gets a drop of water on her shirt or pants, but she'll be wet from her knees to her armpits with a leaky diaper and just doesn't care. I honestly don't know how this child will ever potty train. *sigh*

Alex has been day pee trained since the middle of October-he goes standing up. Sometimes he wakes up dry in the mornings and other times he's soaked. Like some others, he refuses to poop on the potty. He'll usually hold it and do it at bedtime after I put him in his pull up. Or he'll run around holding his bottom telling me "it hurts mommy, it hurts" during the day. After several, several attempts at taking him to the bathroom and trying to make him sit, I'll eventually give him a pull up to take care of it. I don't want him to be in pain, but he's got to learn. I would rather keep taking him and making him sit, but I can't interrupt Christian's feeding 20 different times. He'll tell me he has to pee and then we'll go in there, he'll stand for 2 seconds then tell me he's done. My other problem is that he won't pull his pants/undies down by himself. He CAN and has before, but now refuses to. He'll just stand there and tell me "help me" or "i can't" or "mommy do it". This is what we are going to work on next.

Gabrielle has been day trained since early fall, but not even close for bedtime/naps. We need to work on taking the sippy away at bedtime, but we're working on no tears/tantrums at bedtime first.

Aubrey has been daytime trained since July, I think. Sometime last summer. She's been mostly nighttime trained for quite a while too, although she does have an accident at night every few weeks. I think we stopped using pullups at night about three months ago.

I still have a boy left to potty train next year though. :crazy:

ugh. Emily is still not potty trained. She wears thick training panties with plastic pants during the day, but if we are going out for more than an hour she wears a pullup (and for naps/overnights too). She does fine wearing panties to my mom's two days a week, and that's a little over an hour. Refuses to use public toilets, so that's why I keep her in a pullup. Still will not initiate a potty visit...it's all by our prompting "Emily, let's go potty!" We've had some really good days with only 1-2 accidents, and some really bad days where she pees her panties every 45 minutes. :blue: This has been going on since mid September, and I'm feeling like a total failure. However, she will poop no problem, and twice in the last two weeks we had HUGE progress....she got up during her nap, went potty (once to poop, once to pee) and then back to bed all on her own!!! :woo:

Molly Kate on the other hand is ready now. She can put panties on correctly by herself, loves wearing pullups (even over her diaper) and has been asking to go potty at least once or twice a day, and is generally successful. She doesn't like to sit there long, unlike Emily who would sit there all day if she could. Molly will sit for about 2 seconds, then jump up and say "I peed! I so pwoud of you!!" and clap, whether she peed or not. :lol: It's quite funny. So I think I'm going to start with her over my spring break and see how it goes...maybe Emily will get the push she needs by seeing that Molly goes potty.

One thing E does is say "I want to be a baby" and she likes to go on the little potty here at home, but it's cracked and I really want them using the big toilet with the Dora seat. I think the little potty is going to have an "accident"....ooh, tomorrow's trash day...I should run it outside right now!!! :bolt:

One thing E does is say "I want to be a baby" I keep asking Colin if he wants to be a big boy like Aidan or a baby like Colin. His response: I am a little boy. Well, hard to argue with that logic. :dunno:

That's great MK is nearly as ready (or more!) than Em. Train them together!!

Brooke is PT'ed at the babysitters, but not at home. She won't poop in the potty though yet. But, the babysitter puts her and the other kids on the potty by the hour, and I am not that great about it. And, with her still not talking consistently, she won't tell me when she has to go, but she will tell me after she has gone in her pants. I am not pushing it as much as I am the talking...

Stella

Nick is the oldest in the group and is still struggling with nighttime-I still have pullups on him at night and I cant seem to shake them! He is loving his underwear but is afraid of night and going to sleep in them. :( And Nick still insists he is a baby! So so frustrating!!

Denise - not to worry. Matthew finally gave up overnight pullups just before Christmas and he'll be 7 in a few weeks. We had to wake Matt up at 11pm or so (enroute to bed ourselves) and he would pee and then be fine the rest of the night. After 2 mths of this, DH went away and I was alone with all 4 kids and I went to bed early and didn't wake him up but I heard him around 2'ish and he did it all on his own (finally). Took another month of being dry before he was comfortable giving up his pullup (we had cloth training pants on him).

Charlie is just starting PT'ing. But most of the time, he goes when we take his overnight diaper off and say time for potty and he goes and pees and he might do it once more during the day but he doesn't yet tell us. Maybe in a few weeks, we'll stop the diapers, bite the bullet and put him in training undies and take him to the toilet every hour. He's another one who will only stand up to pee but he's certainly tall enough and I'm not going to force him to sit - if he pees and gets it in without a mess, I'll be happy! LOL Maybe I can do this next week when my parents are here helping out so he'll be trained before DH goes back to work and then I'd only have one in diapers during the day. I might not know what to do with myself considering I had 3 in diapers until just this past Sept?! (And 4 in diapers overnight until just before Christmas!).

Nick is the oldest in the group and is still struggling with nighttime-I still have pullups on him at night and I cant seem to shake them! He is loving his underwear but is afraid of night and going to sleep in them. :( And Nick still insists he is a baby! So so frustrating!!Aidan was day trained in October (04) and I think it was about 6 months until he was night trained - so he was just over 3.5. I didn't care that much to push the night training...I mean, I wanted it, but I was way more concerned with having day training totally down.

I am realizing just how L-U-C-K-Y I was with Julia and PT!! But then again I paid my dues with her screaming non-stop for the first 4 months of her life... :rolleyes: :eek:

Jackson is still in diapers at night. We are NO where near ready to get rid of those...I don't feel like washing sheets every day.

call me crazy, but DH & I decided today to chuck the pullups cold turkey. :eek: Put her down for her nap at 2pm in panties and plastic training pants, and have decided to go for it!! This PT thing has been going on for 6 months and we are both done. I'm even going to do it overnight tonight...wish us luck!! I remember Dori saying that it finally clicked with Lauren after they chucked the pullups, so here goes nothing!

On another note, MK asked to go potty before her nap, and peed on the big potty!! :yippee: Am I maybe going to have them both PT'd by vacation???? :crossfing: 15 weeks to go.....

ok, so we chickened out. She did OK at her nap, and peed the bed which woke her up. Did the laundry, and she wore panties the rest of the day. We had 5 kids under age 4 here last night :errr: and she did have two accidents shortly before bed, likely due to the excitement of all those kids. We did put her back in a pullup for bedtime. :blush:

someday...I keep telling myself I've been blessed with INCREDIBLE sleepers and that she WILL be PT'd before kindergarten.

RIGHT??? :lol:

Amy, don't be so hard on her or yourself. She's not even a month past 3!! I know it might be a bit harder for you since they say girls can be trained earlier, but this is not at all an unusual point for a child to not be PT'd. Hang in there!!

I am realizing just how L-U-C-K-Y I was with Julia and PT!! But then again I paid my dues with her screaming non-stop for the first 4 months of her life... :rolleyes: :eek:
That's exactly what I tell my sister. She doesn't even say that she potty trained her son becuase she didn't do anything - he just did it all on his own. Then again, he's nearly 3.5 and I don't think he's slept through the night yet. It's just the universe keeping things in equillibrium. :lol:

Amy, don't be so hard on her or yourself. She's not even a month past 3!! I know it might be a bit harder for you since they say girls can be trained earlier, but this is not at all an unusual point for a child to not be PT'd. Hang in there!!

Alyssa, thank you so much for that!! Just this morning (DH had the kids all day while I was at school) I guess she had a huge poop in her panties, and then peed tonight after dinner while we were coloring. I keep thinking that she's getting it, slowly, but because we started pushing her too early. His take? He said it's because we waited too long!!! :fado: I just want to scream.

Lindsey is 100% potty trained, day and night, and has been for a few months now. :biggrin:

Zachary is no where near ready and we aren't pushing it. We offer the potty occasionally but often he says a firm NO, he hasn't pee'd on it in months and the one poop he had on the potty a couple of weeks ago was a total fluke (but waaaay cool!). With all the constipation issues we have with him we figure we shouldn't push the potty stuff besides we can offer the potty but short of duct taping him to it, we cannot make him sit and pee.

I'm no longer as stressed as I was. At E's 3 yr checkup this week, our ped asked how it was going and I rolled my eyes. She laughed and said "oh, about like my house then?" Her son is a week older than Emily, and she said there are days when Jack says "No Mommy, I don't want to be a big boy today. I don't feel like going potty" Some days he will do fine, others he flat out refuses. We hugged and had a good laugh.

Molly on the other hand is likely going to be PT'd by summer! She will stop playing to go in a pee, and she has to sit on the big potty. Last Saturday Emily was going, and Molly had to go. She started pushing Emily off and yelled "Emmy! you 'posed to share!!!" :lol2: I was laughing to hard I was almost in tears. Most days she only goes through one or two diapers, the rest of the time she pees on the potty. :yippee:

So I'll have ONE kid PT'd before vacation...just didn't think it'd be Molly Kate! :lol:

Wigs was doing pretty well with peeing last summer until Alex was born then he wanted to be a baby and stopped completely. And I can try to take over for Bob in a lot of ways but I can't pee standing up! :lol:
Now Wigs is totally potty trained for peeing, even at night. He was right at 3 years. Pooping is something we're still working on. He holds it for a while then finally poops but not until he tries not to poop for hours! :rolleyes:
Still, he's mostly poop trained but is always afraid it'll hurt. Stop holding it, then! :crazy:
I thought I'd never be at this point tho'.
One problem is the going when we're out. Sometimes there's nothing to stand on for him to pee. And pooping is tough because the seats are too big and then they are open in front so they aren't even comfortable!!! I saw those folding ones (on line) and they say they aren't for up to 3 year olds.
What are you guys doing?

Kaden will go to the potty at times but I'm not actively training him. He sits on the big toilet with his legs open really far apart (so he doesn't fall in) so it's easy for him to sit on any toilet. I'm sure he can learn to pee standing when he gets tall enough. I don't look forward to the extra mess that bad aim might cause so I'm fine with him sitting.

I would prefer to wait until he's totally ready and trains on his own than to push him or even try to train with underwear. My mil seems more anxious about it than I am. She's tried to train him a few times but no long term success because I don't think he's ready for it yet.

I never really trained Kalyssa. I would suggest it and she would go. Once she got the hang of it (just before she was 3) I told her that I would sign her up for ballet class if once we got rid of all the diapers. She agreed and never looked back and never had an accident.

I would rather let them wear diapers until they are fully ready than to clean up accidents. I guess if it comes down to it and I really need to get them out of diapers I might try to train but so far that hasn't happened.