tell me about potty training...

[alison]

I don't know if dd is ready. It seems so early (19.5 months), but I feel like she might understand the concepts of peeing in the toilet. When we take her diaper off at night, just before bath, she pees as soon as the diaper is off.

I've started holding her over the toilet, and she'll pee into the bowl.

Is this just a fluke?

[SuzySunshine]

I don't know if its a fluke but we used the 3 day potty training at http://www.3daypottytraining.com/ and she says anyone over 22 months is ready so she may be...

[HouseofWool]

I tried with Sophie a while ago and she just didn't get the body signals. Now at 27 months, she flat out doesn't want to. The girl is stubborn beyond words, so I thought the best thing would be to send her off to her dad's this weekend and let him try!

[alison]

Thanks. I'll look into it. It's totally new territory for me!

When I change M on her table, she always wants to wipe herself. (She wants to wipe me when she's around when I'm going to the bathroom, too.)

She lets me know when she's going to poop by making big pooping noises (for lack of a better term). She'll exaggerate grunting sounds, and then a few minutes later, there's poop in her diaper.

[HouseofWool]

If you can get her to correlate the feeling with the action, it should go. Sophie's cue for having a bm is to shout "I not poopy". And then she defecates. Lovely.

[alison]

K--you've got a feisty one! She and M would get along great!

[Auspicious]

At Cheri's recommendation we also did that 3day method and i was kind of shocked that it totally worked. She had a few accidents after the third day, but very few. It clearly had clicked on day three.

However, she was 3y1m when we did that, with only very few, very half-hearted potty training gestures on our part before that. I do think that's late-ish but I can't seem to muster up any concern about it.

Also, she had been waking up in the morning with a dry diaper long before we tried potty training, so nature kind of took care of that part for us. (Haven't they determined that night dryness is developmental instead of behavioral or something? I don't know.)

I wouldn't try with an under-two, but each parent knows their own child best. I don't know what age we'll train Hazel, but diapers don't really bother me (obviously ), so . . . meh, whatever.

So that's the short list of what I know.

[SuzySunshine]

I should say that A was I think about 32months as well.

[Pollyanna]

You don't want my stories...let's just say that my children seem to be able to sit in poop and pee for an inordinately long amount of time without it bothering them in the least. I think I'll just let baby #5 potty train herself

[Vanquisher]

I think M is young for it. YMMV. My kids were 3 and 2.5. I think that training too early often leads to longer training, more frustration, more accidents, and not being really "trained." JMHO.


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[ladymoreta]

Haha Pollyanna - DS is like that. If I didn't change him on a schedule, he'd just sit in it all day...

[migirl]

Um, DS#2 is 3yrs and 2mos and still (very happily, on his part!) in diapers. Shows no interest in the potty or any signs of discomfort in a wet or dirty diaper. <shrug> I'm sorta dreading the whole process, so I'm not going to push it.

[ides]

O is 31months. He only seems interested in potty training when he is with other kids who are trained. I feel a bit of urgency to start since we are moving at the end of June & the preschool he will go to in Sept requires him to be potty trained. There will be a lot of change & upheaval in June & July so I'm thinking of starting in May or maybe August. I'm pretty sure we need to do it in a bootcamp style. He would probably be more ready in August but I don't want to cut it too close to the start of school either. Humph. Any advice or methods to research?

[diggitydot]

DS was probably 3 1/2 when he finally potty-trained. He had ZERO interest in it until we started bribing him to stay on the potty. He was only allowed to blow bubbles if his butt was on the pot. Once he had an "accident" on the toilet, we praised the hell out of him. Something apparently clicked and after that day he never had an accident.

My boys were on the dark side of 3, and it was a nightmare. Mattie keeps saying she wants to go on the potty, but does nothing when ON the potty. She also asks for her diaper changed, which my boys NEVER, EVER did. I may either try the 3 day thing before school lets out, or wait 'til summer and do the pants free method for a week.