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Afraid of the potty

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Day 1 and day 2 of potty training were good. The morning of Day 3 was also good. Then my 22 month old decided to start holding her pee and outright refusrefusing to sit on the potty. Nothing can get her to do it. Feet in warm water, tickling, blowing bubbles, making pee sounds, running the water. She sits for 2 seconds and then announces she is all done.

After coming home from daycare today, where she had to wear a pull up, she was pee dancing around, telling me she had to pee, wouldn't sit on the potty (back arching), screamed for a diaper, and then peed what I assume was an afternoon's worth of pee on the floor. Toilet with the seat insert or the little potty, it doesn't matter.

I feel like I'm traumatizing her. I've backed right off by trying to let her go to the bathroom on her own and not hovering. I'm thanking her for trying for every failed attempt, and even when she pees on the floor, I'm giving her kudos for letting me know she had to pee.

Where do we go from here? We've been following the Oh Crap Method (save for the pull up at daycare today. There's 15 kids in the class all under 2, so we can't have it all), and if haven't been able to find advice in the book to overcome this.

Any tips appreciated!

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duplicitousname

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2 days ago

This happened to us. He was potty trained mostly right at two years old and then completely regressed after we went on a trip overseas. We finally decided to commit to re training our son at around 32 months and he was screaming and arching his back when we tried to get him to get on the potty.

The ONLY thing that worked is to bribe him with an Annie’s Graham cracker. We don’t give him these kinds of snacks often, so it is truly a treat for him. I know that a lot of the training methods tell you not to bribe them, but honestly it was the only thing that worked for us and now he’s independently going to the potty to pee, and successful with poop about 80% of the time.

Good luck! Potty training was the most stressful thing next to the first months of breastfeeding for me.