We've had some major breakthroughs with my daughter lately.
For example, there's a "family room" bathroom at our mall. Which is basically a large single toilet room with a change table. It's huge. Big enough to bring your cart into, with still plenty of room to walk around. She will instantle pee on this toilet. Several times now, she will leave the house dry, pee at the mall, come home dry, and pee in her potty as soon as we get home.
She's been coming home dry for months now (if we're gone for less than a couple hours), but peeing in public toilets is new, as is the taking herself on such a regular basis.
If left naked from the waist down while at home, she will take herself to the potty for poops every time, and pees the majority of the time. We still have misses but they're almost always outside, or after 2-3 successful pee catches if she's had a lot to drink. Poop misses are almost non-existant (though they do happen).
If she's got ANYTHING covering her butt though, a miss is guaranteed if we don't offer pottytunity. She will not tell me if she's wet.
Last week we were outside when I caught her doing the "riding an invisible horse" stand, so I asked her "peepee?" she shook her head no and said "that", then signed for poop. I rushed her to her potty and she pooped immediately. After dumping it it the toilet (she does this herself), she immedialy followed the poop with a pee (also in the potty).
This was not only the first time that she signed poop, but it was also the first time that she told me (ever) that she needed to use the potty. She's 21 months old, but not very verbal at all, so this was HUGE for her.
So now (because we've been having such great success) I want to start offering the toilet more, and weaning away the potty (which btw, we keep in the living room). We do put her on the toilet, but that often ends up with her refusing to sit. Sometimes she'll pee, but she will quickly ask to come off. At this point, I would just be happy with her using the potty in our bathroom.
We always take her with us when we need to use it (and sit her on her potty -we have two. The bblp stays in the living room, the bbpc stays in the bathroom). If she needs to, she will use it.
She has never in her life pooped on the toilet.
So how do I go about the transition from potty to toilet? She's doing so well all by herself that I'm afraid that she'll take dome steps backwards if I try to control when and where she eliminates.
Suggestions?
For example, there's a "family room" bathroom at our mall. Which is basically a large single toilet room with a change table. It's huge. Big enough to bring your cart into, with still plenty of room to walk around. She will instantle pee on this toilet. Several times now, she will leave the house dry, pee at the mall, come home dry, and pee in her potty as soon as we get home.
She's been coming home dry for months now (if we're gone for less than a couple hours), but peeing in public toilets is new, as is the taking herself on such a regular basis.
If left naked from the waist down while at home, she will take herself to the potty for poops every time, and pees the majority of the time. We still have misses but they're almost always outside, or after 2-3 successful pee catches if she's had a lot to drink. Poop misses are almost non-existant (though they do happen).
If she's got ANYTHING covering her butt though, a miss is guaranteed if we don't offer pottytunity. She will not tell me if she's wet.
Last week we were outside when I caught her doing the "riding an invisible horse" stand, so I asked her "peepee?" she shook her head no and said "that", then signed for poop. I rushed her to her potty and she pooped immediately. After dumping it it the toilet (she does this herself), she immedialy followed the poop with a pee (also in the potty).
This was not only the first time that she signed poop, but it was also the first time that she told me (ever) that she needed to use the potty. She's 21 months old, but not very verbal at all, so this was HUGE for her.
So now (because we've been having such great success) I want to start offering the toilet more, and weaning away the potty (which btw, we keep in the living room). We do put her on the toilet, but that often ends up with her refusing to sit. Sometimes she'll pee, but she will quickly ask to come off. At this point, I would just be happy with her using the potty in our bathroom.
We always take her with us when we need to use it (and sit her on her potty -we have two. The bblp stays in the living room, the bbpc stays in the bathroom). If she needs to, she will use it.
She has never in her life pooped on the toilet.
So how do I go about the transition from potty to toilet? She's doing so well all by herself that I'm afraid that she'll take dome steps backwards if I try to control when and where she eliminates.
Suggestions?
At least not yet. I would wait till she's more consistent with it, especially when clothed.
Congratulations 
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