    
Erika Miranda
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Username: Holographicerika
Post Number: 1
Registered: 07-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - 10:06 pm: | |
So I have a similar story as many parents on here. My daughter will be 3 in Nov. and I have tried off and on throughout the past year to offer her potty training. It was always determined she wasn't ready and since I wanted to let her "decide" and train when she was ready- I let it go and reintroduced it again months later.
Anyhow- we have gotten to a point where I'd like her to start preschool in a month and she must be trained. Being determined to meet this deadline- I decided to try the "all or nothing" approach. I started just yesterday. I explained to her that we'd have no more diapers and that it was time for her to use the big girl potty so she can start school. Well, she had a few accidents on the floor and I'd rush her to the potty after she was done- to be expected...
By the evening she was getting frustrated and discovered how to hold it in. Well- unfortunately... she took this as a cue to not pee or poo at all! Not on the toilet, potty, or even in diapers!
I was so sad by night time that I put her in a diaper because we were miserable and she kept saying owie and holding herself but she wouldn't let it out anywhere. Well I thought at least relief would come with the diaper, but she persisted with the holding! Whenever she couldn't manage to hold it, she'd only dribble bits out and not fully empty the bladder.
I worried myself sick all night that she'd develop a UTI and that I was a horrible Mom for trying to force her to do something that she was seemingly emotionally unready for. She had a dry diaper in the morning... and then finally let some out after being up for an hour (in the diaper). Then she went 8 hours today before letting herself pee in her diaper (she was in panties all morning until we went out). We had plenty of potty visits and she sat there and once she felt the pee coming would just complain that she didn't want to pee and cry.
I keep thinking I did something wrong and now I don't know what to do to backpedal her away from this fear if it's even possible.
HELP!!! I'm on the verge of tears that have come and gone all day... |
