Potty Train Your Toddler in 3 days: DAY 2

Day 2
I was actually excited for Day 2! Day 1 (or the 1/2 day) had gone much better than I had expected and Day 2 was a Saturday! That meant I had a potty training partner!!! Woohoo!

I had to leave for a dentist appointment before baby girl woke up, so the night before, I gave my husband a quick guide to potty training! And from what he tells me he actually followed it!

When she woke up, he made sure to take her diaper off and let her play in just her pajama shirt for the morning.  First place they went, however, was the potty.  He sat and read stories with her for a little while, but she seemed as if she didn't have to go.  ( I am thinking she probably went in her diaper before she got out of her crib or else she probably would have had to go pretty badly).  So, potty in hand, they went downstairs and Alissa played while Daddy made some breakfast.  Before eating he had her sit on the potty to try to go pee pee again, but had no luck.  So he put her "big girl pants" on her and they sat and ate breakfast.   After that they played and he made sure to remind her about going potty, and took her to sit on the potty several times.

As I arrived home about 2 hours later (made sure to do a little shopping and get my Starbucks after the dentist), she still had not gone to the bathroom on her potty.  I knew by this point she was probably getting close to the point that she had to go.  And I also found out that my "potty training partner" had some fire company duties to attend all afternoon!

So as he left, I had her sit on the potty and we played Mrs. Potato Head, read some books, and even managed to do puzzles all while she sat on the potty.  Not sure if playing while she is sitting on the potty is again the best idea, but she doesn't seem to mind sitting there, she enjoys my attention, and she gets to play with her toys.  As we play I keep asking her if any pee pee came out or if she can try to go pee pee while she is sitting there.  She will sometimes stand up to check what is in her potty, and if nothing is there, I often ask her if she wants to sit down and try again or if she wants to take a break.  We spent a few minutes going through the motions and she eventually pee peed! Had our big Hurrah Party, put our Elmo sticker in the Saturday Column, and did some more cheers!

This climbing stuff is so much easier without a diaper

I then decided to head outside before the rain started so we could get some fresh air.  I only put some capri pants on her and nothing else.  We played outside for about 45 minutes.  I did keep reminding her she didn't have a diaper on and to tell me if she thought she had to go pee pee.  I also joked with her telling her she could pee pee in the grass if she had to, just like Star and Joules (our dogs).  But she stayed dry the whole time we were outside.

When we went in the pants came off, and we tried to pee pee before we sat down to have a snack, which was unsuccessful.  As we sat and had our snack I noticed she wasn't eating a whole lot, and was getting very antsy sitting in her chair.  Took her out of her chair and walked over to her potty with her.  She sat for a little while reading a book, and I could tell the pooping had begun.  Went through the same steps, hurrahs, sticker, more hurrahs.  I let her have 2 stickers this time since she did pee pee and poo poo on the potty.  After this potty event however she remembered that we empty the potty and flush the pee pee and poo poo, so she actually asked to go back downstairs and "flush the poop, Mommy!"

I did put a diaper on for nap time,  I think she went again right before nap, she took a good nap, and when she woke up (with a dry diaper), we went right to the potty.  We again had to sit and read for a little while, which she loves, but she did go again! At this point in the day she was using the potty so much more than I had expected and hadn't had any accidents! But, I had really been prompting her so much and making sure she was sitting on the potty a lot, so I decided for the rest of the afternoon and evening to back off a little bit and see how she did.


SHE WAS AMAZING! Pretty much followed the same routine as Day 1.  Let her play, would give her a few reminders, but I didn't take her over to her potty nearly as much as I had done all morning.  She went back and forth on her own. We took the potty all over the house with us.  Even bounced in her bouncey house for awhile which I thought might make her have to pee pee and may cause an accident, but she stayed dry! She went poop and pee so many times on the potty I lost track and I realized I didn't have to be "in her face" like I had been.  The evening was relaxing (well the potty training part), and she stayed dry ALL DAY!!!!

Putting her Elmo sticker on her chart

We did take her to the potty and sit with her a few times, but there was maybe one or two times that she went and sat down on her own.  But as bed time was getting closer, she wanted to watch a TV show and have a snack.  I know how distracting that can be and thought it might be a good idea if we put her pajamas on with her diaper while she watched TV.  She had her snacks and juicy and I knew after that she would probably have to go pee pee before bed.  Sat down on the potty with her, read her a few stories while she sat, and she peed AND pooped before bed time.

This day has been completely different than I had expected! I had braced myself for clean ups, planned on doing lots of laundry, had the towels and cleaning supplies ready to go,  and never needed any of it! I am so incredibly proud of her! However, I am now realizing how much I really did prompt her or take her over to the potty throughout the day.  I think we spent like 1/2 of the day sitting on the potty.  Although, we read MANY good books, I feel like I needed to just let her be a kid a little more, and accept the fact that accidents may happen and not constantly be reminding or asking her about the potty.  Good thing I still have Day 3 to work on that! :) She has also not gone potty at all when my husband is with her.  I am not really sure why exactly, I think it has to do with patience (his, love you hunny), or maybe she just hasn't had to go at those times! But unfortunately, he has some more fire company duties to attend to tomorrow too! I am hoping to have him take over completely in the afternoon and see how it goes (maybe I can even get out of the house by myself for the afternoon :) :) ) But so far the progress is great! And it seems like (fingers crossed) we are headed in the right direction!

End of Day 2! 

At this point, I don't see her being completely potty trained in 3 Days (have to go back and reread parts of the article about that).  But I feel like we are off to a great start and I really am not concerned if it takes more than 3 days.  I really just wanted to "test" the theory and see if it would work.  And for the most part seems to be.  We'll see how tomorrow goes!