Okay so no I didn't get him potty trained over night or anything like that. But I do want to explain a little something. I have heard that children can potty train at 18 months is the reason I am going at it at all. And I have seen him go in the potty several times... he just can't tell me yet, which to me is a sign of holding off until he can.
MY main concern is my back. It feels like it is going out. I have been to the chiropractor several times but it is more a muscle thing it feels like; maybe, I am not sure. I am going to make a dr. appt soon to figure it out. I thought it would go away in time but it is getting worse.
There are two little boys,both of which are NOT SMALL, in diapers! Bear just weighed in at 28 lbs and Moe is at least 27. It is getting way strenuous to lift them anymore and potty training at least the oldest one would help tremendously! I think for now I am going to move diaper changes to the floor. Maybe that will work. In the meantime if you think of it please say a healing prayer for my tortured back.
Thanks for all your information and tips. You have been most helpful. We will definitely be working on technique as soon as he figures out he has to go! haha...oh I love my boy!
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...can this 18 month old little boy NEVER have to pee? I have tried the lemonade trick-glasses full! I have left his diaper off for him to run free and go every 15 minutes. Nothing (I am glad that there have been no puddles... but COME ON MAN!) He will just hold it forever!
This morning from 7:45 to 10A I gave him a sippy of sugar free chocolate milk and a sippy of lemonade (barely diluted). I took him potty at least 6 times and then in the second to last 15 minute stretch he was looking out the window and I heard a splat hit the wall and the floor. Just a little gush and then he noticed and stopped, looking down at his accident, then he looks at me. I said "YAY...okay let's go pee, pee in the potty. Come on honey let's go to the potty. Run, run, run; hurry, hurry, hurry." And he did. He got all excited about it and ran to the potty. He gets on it and NOTHING! He sits there cheering, "yay. poopoo"
"No honey... you didn't go yet" "go pee pee".
I put his hand in a cup of warm water, I run water, I go pee pee so he can hear and understand it. NOTHING!
Finally in the end; the last 15 minute try before his nap. I put him on it and we sit there for a bit and then the flood gates open up...
"YAY BEAR, YOU ARE GOING PEE PEE..... SUCH A BIG BOY!!!!!"
in his little voice "aaayyyyy, poo poo"
well okay it's a start!
We have recently taken away his potty seat too due to his "free hands, are troubled hands" theory! He does great sitting on the big potty all by himself. He is even learning to get up on his stool and get onto the potty, and in turn get down.
Now if he would just have to go it would be a lot easier to train him.
Any suggestions from you seasoned potty trainers? I am taking them all at this point!
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6 comments:
It sounds like you are doing everything right to me! I PT lots of kiddos and a couple of ideas...use a special reward that he only gets when he pee-pees and maybe use big boy underwear with special characters and talk about keeping spiderman (or whoever)dry. It is great that he is able to hold it! I bet once he goes a few times he will get it!
He IS kind of young...you'll know when he's ready!
I don't envy you and this is one thing I do not look forward to again. I had the opposite problem with my last son. He peed all the time. I'm not sure what's worse. Hang in there. If he can hold it so long maybe he will be an easy one once he realizes how to make it work. :) Put some cheerios in the potty and tell him to shoot them.
he'll get it! he is pretty young, but my friend's kids were potty trained that early! And it sounds like he can hold it, which is kind of key to being able to hold it until getting to the potty- he just needs to figure out how to go every time he's in there!!
Mine were a bit older- the boys were about 2 yrs, 4 months- my daughter was just about 2.
Good luck! He'll get it!
All my friends did the reward thing with their kids. I have always heard that boys are hard...so good luck!
For a boy 18 months is too young. It is usually recommended that boys be at least 3 years old. I trained both my boys at 3 and it took about a week.
If your back is sore, just have them climb up on a bed and change them there on a matt. He is probably not physically nor emotionally ready yet.
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