The Smell of Little Pong

Potty Practice

I have started about 3 separate posts now on how I have finally got round to potty training Freyja, but I'm not getting very far with them - in fact, in the time it's taken me to half write 3 posts, Freyja is practically out of nappies.*

We started about a month ago, it's gone much, much better than I expected - not difficult, given that I was convinced my daughter couldn't even tell when she was weeing and would never be toilet trained. Turns out she just hadn't felt the need to share it with me.

Anyway, she's pretty much dry at home. But at home I often leave her either with nothing on - in which case she goes to the potty herself - or with just knickers on and keep reminding her that she might need the toilet. I hadn't yet braved fully dressed and out of easy reach of a loo.

So yesterday we had the first trip out. I chose to go to the toddler group at the Ackroyd community centre, armed with 3 spare pairs of trousers, because it's very child friendly and has little child-size toilets. We left at 9.30am, got home at 11.45am, with Freyja still wearing the same pair of trousers she went out in - hurrah! And today we went to the park and she managed to stay dry again. I do have to keep asking her and reminding her that she doesn't have a nappy on but she is slowly starting to tell me when she needs to go too.

Unfortunately this morning she did wee on the sofa. Not the new sofa though (relax, Adrian!)

* not at night or for naps - we're a long, long way off from even trying that!

posted by solveig @ 9:07 AM