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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For a week now, We've been potty training our 19 month old daughter. She'll go sit on the little potty for fun for 10 seconds then get up without peeing. She holds in her pee and poop until.she has an accident. 
When we initiate trying to get her to sit on he potty every two.hours she resists and cries.

What went wrong and how.do I fix it now?[/quote]

She has no idea what she's supposed to do. Just wait a few months-you are going to stress you and her out by making her resist and cry. Her little body needs to mature.[/quote]

This. You potty trained her too early. I hate the O Crap book with a passion. I used it with DD when she was 26 months. She wasn’t ready. Her teachers told us she wasn’t ready and we went on and forged ahead. She basically held her pee all day in daycare from 9 am to 5 pm. Refused to drink anything. Didn’t have an accident. This went on for a week and a half. After that she started developing constipation issues as well. I was so desperate I actually paid for one of Oh Crap’s “potty consultants” (I think that’s what they are called). She had no idea what she was doing and actually kept telling me she’ll get back to me. Apparently there is some message board she would keep going to to ask questions. There was a Facebook group too. One of the moms had trouble with her daughter who was refusing to poop. Her doctor said to give the daughter miralax. The Oh Crap consultant insisted that she doesn’t and give her daughter a suppository instead. Mom said daughter would be screaming while being given a suppository but oh crap consultant kept insisting that she continue. It was painful to read their conversation. We finally went to our pediatrician who said they deal with a lot of issues from kids who were potty trained too early. He told us to just put her back in diapers and to not worry. Told us to give her miralax for the constipation. Eventually she relaxed and was fine. We are still dealing with constipation issues today and she’s seeing a GI at Children’s. We were very relaxed during the entire potty training period. We didn’t yell at her once, didn’t hover etc but we still dealt with issues. With my second we waited until she was ready. Like really ready. She kept sitting on the potty before her second birthday and we encouraged her but didn’t actually potty train her. When she was two and three months she kept peeing in the potty so we her preschool told us to put her in pull ups. We would praise her and encourage her when she used the potty and change her whenever she peed in her pull ups. After maybe three weeks preschool told us she was dry all day and using potty so to put her in underwear. We did. She had a couple of accidents. Worse were the poop accidents but then the accidents went away and she was fully trained. I didn’t night train either of my girls (oh crap recommends night training but says for some parents it’s too much so they can deal with night training later). Well we didn’t night train at all. Put them in pull ups and kept them in pull ups even when they were mostly dry. Took away the pull ups at around 4, maybe younger.

OP I would talk to your pediatrician and see what he/she recommends re the holding. Dont punish her. Don’t force her. The holding with only get worse. You can always put her in diapers and try again later when she’s older. Good luck! [/quote]

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