It feels like I failed potty training my son
I keep getting downvoted in the Potty Training sub too like 🙃🙃🙃
My son is almost 25 months old and we are on day 3 of the naked potty training method. I tried a very calm, no pressure approach too. He liked to play with his potty, climb up and sit on it, and he would laugh too.
What's happening is when he has to pee, he starts FREAKING out and panicking. Crying, screaming, and begging for his diaper. I've never seen him like this, its pitiful. When I know he has to go, I try to sit him on the potty and he screams, hits and kicks his legs screaming "OFF, DOWN."
He holds it (for hours) until he starts to pee on the floor, and we pick him up and put him on potty to pee the rest of the way. He has never started and finished a pee on the potty, only finishes after an accident.
Im 27 weeks pregnant and wanted to get him trained before baby comes, but I feel like physically he COULD do it but mentally, he isnt ready. He has this terror and panic feeling about initiating the pee on the potty.
I see so many moms saying they had their kid potty trained at 18 months, 20 months...24 months, and now I feel if I stop and wait to try later, that I failed him and myself. I've been crying over it, he has been miserable during the day and he is usually SO happy...
I just feel bad, or behind, or like im doing something wrong and the Potty Training sub hates me because I put a diaper back on him so he could poop (he was holding it and becoming constipated).
I think I want to wait and try again when he is 2.5, but it feels wrong.
Did anyone here stop and try again later with a complete 180 flip and success???