If you would've asked me prior to potty training, I would have said that I'd be sure we'd still have accidents at 26.5 months. If you would've asked me the same question around the time she turned two, I would've said that she would be fairly accident-free by now, based on the trend she was showing at that point.
Unfortunately, I was right when I said she'd still be having accidents. It's not horrible, but I think the root of it is that we're giving her a bit more independence with determining when to use the potty. We aren't asking her every 15 minutes if she needs to go to the potty anymore and I think that's leading her to have more accidents.
When she first potty trained, she was immediately dry during naps. I was so proud and impressed. And then, for some reason, about a week ago she started having accidents during naps. She may be sleeping more soundly. She had naptime accidents last Wednesday through Friday at the sitter, but stayed dry during her naps at home. The sitter put her in a Pull-Up every day this week and she's stayed dry all week during naps. We don't know if it was a fluke or what, exactly, it means. We're still taking the laid-back approach with her since she's still only 26.5 months old.
She's still peeing in her diaper/Pull-Up (just depends on what we feel like putting on her) overnight. She hasn't shown any inclination to wake up in the middle of the night and she rarely staying dry overnight. We have a suspicion that she does the majority of her overnight peeing while she's waking up in the morning, as it's usually warm when we go to her in the morning. I've always heard that night training is purely physical and not mental like daytime training, so I'm not surprised that she's not ready for it yet.
Generally, though, things are going really well. We've gotten her transitioned away from the convenience of her little potty in the living room and she's only using the big potties. She doesn't even use her potty ring most of the time--she's comfortable holding herself up. I guess the next task is teaching her how to wipe?!?!
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Good for her! It sounds like she's doing AWESOME. I'm taking the laid-back approach with Andrew too, and he's three...is that bad?! LOL He's doing pretty good, though. Still not dry at night.
Will, on the other hand, woke up two mornings this week with a completely dry diaper. ?!?!?!
Wow! Way to go, Will!!!
With Carson, it was just be patient and praise like never before. He was three. Millie hasn't started yet, although we are taking it slow with her because of the move. She is ready to go so we officially start in a few days. But with Bug he just "got it" and knew what to do from that point on. E will get there soon. She's already doing so well! :)
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