Need some helpful advice please!
Sorry yall, this is a long one. If you have the time, I would greatly appreciate any help!
We started potty training my daughter last Monday. She has been showing all signs of readiness for a while, and we thought we would give it a try. By day 8, she was doing extremely well. She was asking to go potty every time she needed to go, except sometimes she didn't want to poop on the potty, but she was asking for every single pee. Even during her bath for two nights now, she has been in the bath, asked to go pee, got out of the bath, went to pee in the potty, then got back in the bath.
Here is my question-
I am pretty certain that my daughter is asking to go to the potty just to get out of doing something, like going to bed. BUT sometimes she really does have to go. Here is how the past three nights have gone-
1st night- We laid down and soon after she asked to go pee pee. Even though she just went before bath, she had never asked to go at night before, so I said okay. Sure enough, she immediately peed. We laid back down and she asked again like 5 mins later, I said no since she just went, and she just laid down and went to sleep.
2nd night- She peed in the middle of her bath, so I knew she had just peed like 20 mins prior (she normally goes 2.5-3.5 hours between peeing), but she asked to go pee pee, I said okay since she really did go the night before. She went on the potty and just tooted. So back to the bedroom. She asked like 5 more times, I said no. Then she asked again and I took her again, just in case. Nothing. She asked at least 20 more times, I kept saying no. She went to bed and woke up dry (she hasn't peed overnight in over a month).
Last night- She asked to go pee shortly after we laid down, even though she had just went shortly before we came to bed. I told her "Okay, but only one more time, then it's time to go to sleep". She seems to understand the " one more (time), then it's time to ____" in other aspects of our day, like when we are at the park, "1 more time down the slide, then its time to go home" and she will often ask "one more?" for other things, so I really do think she understands this concept. So, I told her this and she said okay, I took her to the toilet and she just tooted. We go back to the bedroom and 5 mins later she asks again. I told her no, she asked again, I said no. Then she started crying, then I could hear her peeing in her diaper. She started crying harder and pointed to her diaper and said "pee pee".
I. Felt. Awful.
Like, she has been doing SO good, then I tell her "no" when she is telling me she needs to go. I also can see now where the "one more time" thing can't apply to this, because then realizing they need to pee is a 'right now!' thing, not something they can plan like us adults can.
BUT, the night before where she asked me a MILLION times to go pee, just because she wanted to get out of bed, and she woke up dry-so she didn't really need to go. I don't want to reinforce this manipulation technique.
I just don't know what to do when this situation arises again?! Any advice? Tips? Tricks?
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