Need encouragement/advice for potty training 27 month old son
Hi all. Could just use some advice/input as husband and I are feeing clueless. We are on day 5 of potty training our 27 month old son and I can’t tell how things are going. We’re doing the Oh Crap method, did a couple days of naked and now on day 3 of commando. Son picked up being naked rather quickly and by day 2 was peeing on the toilet on his own without any accidents and with only a little prompting. Also managed to have him sit to poop once he started to standing up.
First day of commando was harder, had 2 pee accidents he seemed unaware of in his pants, but managed to pee in potty at least 8 times. Day 2 of commando had no true accidents (a couple slight leakage incidents that were about a quarter size that we were able to whisk him to potty once noticed and he would then pee) but son relied on all prompting and did not ever self initiate using potty on his own. Did poop again in potty but he didn’t realize he was done and finished a little bit once his pants were back up.
Now day 3 of commando he was immediately in a bad mood about the whole thing this morning. Refused to pee for about 3 hours this morning, even when he started to leak and we would run him to the potty he would shout no and refuse to sit on it. This went on for about an hour with him holding his crotch and dancing until he finally sat and peed. The second pee of the day came a couple hours later and went much better with no refusal, but required prompting.
Does this all sound about on track for potty training? Is it normal at this point for them to go into a phase of refusal/ be relying solely on prompting? I feel like while he is mostly doing well at home, I can’t imagine when we’ll be able to resume normal outings which is making me spiral a bit.
I feel so torn because it seems like he’s doing great with minimal accidents but then wonder if we’re doing this way too soon and stressing him out. I feel like he’s a bit young, but we are on a slight time crunch- he is starting preschool in the fall which requires potty training or at least close to. We also have a baby due in the fall and I don’t want to do any big changes too close to that.
Thanks for any input!