Potty question for boy mommies

I have only potty trained boys with autism, and the list of "readiness" cues I use with parents are the following:

Dry for long periods of time/through the night
Indicating the need to be changed, awareness of being soiled
Going somewhere to hide to make #2

Those are the 3 off the top of my head. However, at 2 years old, Cailen still doesn't show signs of ay of this. He wakes up SATURATED every morning, and everytime I change his diaper, he is always holding a heavy diaper. He will poop anywhere, and will only tell me he has a poop if its uncomfortable in there Most of the time, if I smell something, and ask if he has poopy, he will tell me no. If I ask what's in his diaper, he will tell me "dinosaurs" and then his smelly butt will roar at me, but thats another story.

Is he ready at all????

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The cues are basically the same. DS wasn't interested in the least until after 3yo. DD is going to be 3 this month, and also shows little desire to train. If you look at a lot of the potty training threads here, you'll see that 3yo+ is fairly common.

I'm never a fan of rushing the training. When they are ready, they'll let you know.... even if it's much later than you would like...

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I would love to hear some advice on the potty training question too...I have read up a lot of it but having some BTDT advice would be great.

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sounds like he may not be ready but it is worth a shot. Put him on the potty a few times a day and see what happens

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I would say the cues are the same....poo-poo came easy for us...he started early....but I was so lost on how to start pee-pee....then he woke up for 2 nights in a row with a dry diaper, so I knew he was ready....this was the first time he did pee-pee on the potty.

Now if only mommy could get it together, he would totally be potty trained

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just a quick question for you...when you pooty train, how often do you take them to go pee-pee...every 30 min, 40 min?

Thanks!

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i was going to post almost the exact same thing. josh tells me before he poops that he's got to poop (but he doesn't want to sit on the potty then), then he squats in his spot, he tells me he's done and to change him. he peed on the potty 2 days ago and yelled "i did it!" BUT he is completely saturated in the morning his diaper is HUGE and often leaky.
so i don't think they are ready yet but as long as josh thinks it's fun to try to sit on the potty, i'm going to try 1-2 times a day just to ready him for hopefully the near future. just keep things fun with zero pressure.

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Noah sounds like Cailen and I know he is not ready. I'm not even gonna try for at least another 6-8 months. And see then.

Its gonna make the difference between training every day forever till they get it, or once they are ready, having it happen quickly and not waste all that time and frustration kwim?

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DS is 2 and he tells me when he pooped, but AFTER he pooped

He wakes up with a saturated diaper

I am waiting a bit

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we have been potty training since DS was 15mths old. At first he would go on it all the time. However, i think he regressed a bit because we introduced it too early. We are trying to get him to go poopy because he does go and hide, he does tell us when did poopy,and sometimes he tells us beforehand (but that is rare). His father is actually better at potty training than I am.

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I don't think he is ready yet, and I wouldn't push it either, it just makes everyone miserable.

DS tells us when he pees and poops, we need to get a potty and we will see how he does, but I don't plan on really trying with him until August.

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What's daycare's take on it? I'm sure they are training others in his class, no? Is there a classroom bathroom, does he seem curious as to others?

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Lol....LOVE THE DINOSAUR THING:) You could buy a potty and introduce him to it so he gets comfortavble. He might start by sitting on it with his clothes on and then with his doaper and then maybe you can get him pon there without a diaper. I personally would say that he might still be too young but...............I know that there are mommies that won't agree so it's a personal opinion.

My son is 3 and we were doing well. But, we have regressed and he wants no part of potty training, My little guy doesn't like to be changed in front of people because he doesn't want people to see. He get's red and still doesn't want to go on the potty. I think out issue is that there is a new baby coming in early July and he has a litle brother as well who just started to walk.

When he was 2 1/2 I let him run around without a diaper and he would go all by himself. Then one day.....it stopped. My pediatrician told me that you will know when he is ready and not to push the issue . Most boys do not piotty train until they are 3 - 4 years old. Good luck. I know that I would like for my little guy to potty train too.

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We started putting the poop from his diapers in the potty and showing him that it is where the poop "belongs".

Then he started to tell us when he had to go so he could do it on the potty.

Pee came a little easier for us for some reason. He will grab his crotch and say "Potty mama"!!

But daycare was a HUGE help with it - not that they did anything special, but he saw the older kids doing it and wanted to do it too.


ETA: he is NOT totally potty trained - some days he's great some days not so much. The only time I "make" him go is right before bath time. Other than that it's at his own discretion because he's not quite two yet.

Message edited 5/11/2009 1:33:47 PM.

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