Potty Training in One Day - The Potty Patty Doll

I bought this doll after reading the much recommended toilet training in a day by Adrian and Foxx phds. They specifically indicate you get a doll that wets and simulate it using the restroom and having an accident. On the outside Patty looked like the answer, especially since shes the only doll that is supposed to function as needed for this important milestone. I'm angry that I paid almost $50 for this doll that doesn't even do what is advertised. The manufacturer and seller must know this and they know they don't have to improve the product because they have no competition. If you want a doll that actually pees then these are the only ones I could find as of July 2014. I give this item 1 star because it did not work as advertised out of the box and $50 is a rip off. It is not worth the $36+$9 shipping they are asking but they don't care, they have you over a barrel.Our Potty Patty DID NOT WORK right out of the box. I opened it when my daughter was asleep, read the instructions, and then followed them to fill and test the doll over the course of 3 days. No matter how slowly or quickly I filled the doll she would not produce a stream of "urine" and just made drops, if that. I even pressed the leg with much full body weight and nothing came back out the pee hole but it did the mouth. Then when she was supposed to be staying dry she leaked anyway!With the big day all prepped for and no other dolls to be found I decided to just do what another poster did and squeeze one of the bottles behind Patty's back. We started today and it seemed to work ok but I didn't get to finish the child trains the doll part because Patty didn't work and my 19months old caught on that something was funny behind Patty's back. She didn't totally figure it out because I let Patty end on a high note but we should have done more. Over all my daughter will need one more day because she is young and we got a really late start. It's ok the book has instructions for this...So with my daughter off to bed and being an architect I had to know what was up inside the doll and why it didn't work. So I firmly and gently pulled her leg off. As soon as the leg with the water tank was off she urinated like a champ! I looked and the doll is poorly designed. Unless they make her bigger it is highly unlikely your patty will work out of the box. Why? Because the legs rotate too closely to the tube that water comes out of and they pinch it into a crimp. Just like your garden hose, it doesn't matter how much pressure there is some crimes just won't pop out. The one in Patty is like that. I will upload photos tomorrow. Once I saw this I tried to open the tube up and sure enough under slight pressure on the leg she went a nice stream. Then I put the leg back on and it crimped back up, no more water coming out. So I took the other leg off to try and see what I could see and that's when I realized if the leg is rotated too much, more than 180 degrees, the hoses will tangle too tightly inside and crimp. I also discovered that the leg with the water was pressing the tube into a crimp. So I grabbed some tweezers and squeezed the tube open perpendicular to the crimp. I put her other leg back on and she seems to work! I will be trying her again in the morning and see how it goes. I will update this review then too.If your party doesn't work my advice is to take off the leg that doesn't hold water, for our doll that was the doll's right leg, and make sure the tubes aren't crimped. I still think they are asking way too much for something you have to hassle with this much just to fill and get working. If it was $10-20 I could give a better rating for the effort I had to put in, but $40-50 is way too much.

I looked and looked for a wetting doll as we planned to used the potty training in one day method. The cheaper ones all seem to be babies. I took a deep breath and forked over the cash and bought Patty. She worked. I don't have any complaints. We used her for about 20 minutes and don't plan on taking her out again until our 2nd daughter is ready to be trained. She will not be a toy. Potty Training in One Day worked. It is pretty intense but I am glad we did it and bought the appropriate doll. No poopy toddler diapers is worth every penny Patty cost me.

This is an example of over-thinking and over-engineering something that needs to be simple to be effective. The instructions say "feed the doll slowly" which is a massive understatement. The water hardly goes in the baby's mouth at all without spilling out the side and that is after trying every possible position (including the recommended one) to get the water into the doll. When we tried squeezing the leg to release the stream of "pee," it shot out the baby's mouth instead of the bottom, which is unacceptable for training. We ended up taking off the head and removing the extensive tubing and connectors to make it so the doll could pee like it was supposed to (just using gravity).Bad purchase. Worst $40 I have ever spent.

We used this for the potty training in aDay potty party. It did the job but the doll leaked so I could never get it to pee in the toilet. Had to put aBottle behind it's back and squirt it in. Was a bit pricy for not working well so would have gone with a cheaper doll if I would have known

Helped my daughter to get toilet trained! Works great for kids that don't have a sibling around to show them.

It is a nice baby doll with dippers and panties and a bottle. But that's about it! It doesn't pee as it is indicated. I bought this for potty training purpose, but now I feel I could have bought/made some panties for her existing baby dolls and since Potty Patty doll doesn't do anything extra, I could've saved the money!

My daughter (2yrs 10mos) loved the doll and teaching her to use the potty. The doll really helped in our potty training process. My daughter still plays with her and isn't just a tool for potty training.

I bought this for a friend and she loves it. She said it worked for her daughter.