After 3 Day Potty Training-Now Can We Leave The House?

So 3 Day Potty Training is over.  Did it work?

Potty Training Day 4

It’s the day after 3 day potty training.  I’m so happy.  This morning I was a little nervous. Was he dry through the night?  Was choosing to do day and night training at the same time a good idea, especially since he's still in a crib? My son woke up around 6am and I wasn’t sure if I should take him out to go pee, but I had committed to not going in unless he said he called for me.  I waited, then at 6:20 am,  I hear, "Mommy pee pee".  I rushed in and took him to the potty.  Underwear all dry, crib all dry.  He had made it through the night.  Yea!!!    Is he potty trained now? We'll see.  


A few hours later, I knew it was time again, but now it’s up to him.  I had to use the bathroom and asked if he wanted to go.  He said no.  I reminded him to tell me if he had to pee.  15 minutes later he said mommy pee pee... and off we went and he did it again.  Pee and Poo with no accident.  He still is not into pulling up his own underwear and pants. We’ll work on that.  So far so good.  Now for the real test in a few hours we are leaving the house.  I’ll give you an update later.

So we left the house and it was fine.  I asked him and he didn’t want to go in the bathroom, but later we ended up using the portable potty in the back of the SUV.  The rest of the day went great-no accidents!

Potty Training Day 5

So this morning I heard him stiring around 6am, but I didn’t go in.  I wanted to see if he would call if he needed to pee.  He didn’t and when I went in a little later he was wet. That’s okay.  He finished peeing in the potty when he got up.  So is it going to be like this from now on?  Should I have used pull ups instead?  Since he’s still in the crib.  I guess I’ll just have to get him earlier to go pee.  No more sleeping in.  So the trade off for potty training right now is he’s getting less sleep.    It takes him longer to go down.  He’s  usually out by 7pm.  Now it takes until 8pm, because we want to make sure he has an empty bladder.  We have a few false alarms and I have to go back into his room several times before he  finally goes to sleep.     Now the real test.  Today he goes to preschool.  Will it work with all that activity and other kids around?


So he had an accident at school, but was fine the rest of the day and told me when he needed to go.  We're also getting the hang of the portable potty.  He got a little distracted, but were getting there.  So I’d say 3 day potty training is a success. 


But stay tuned.  Potty training is not over yet.  Tomorrow I will give you the wrap up now that 4 months have passed.