September 2012 Moms
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Is your toddler potty trained? Are you going to before the baby comes?
DD is going on the potty at daycare but refuses to go anymore for us at home. I'm considering doing the 3 day potty bootcamp come August and see how it goes. It would be really nice to only have one in diapers.
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No, neither of my kids are PT. We tried a little with DD a few months ago, but she never sat on it for more than a second, and never did anything in it.
Now, I do not have the energy and the playschool she is going to in the fall doesn't require it, so it'll be something we focus on in Oct/Nov likely.
ETA: I will have three in diapers, which is MUCH easier in my opinion than two in diapers (no way am I PTing DS) and a 3 year old who pees on the floor / asks to go pee every 10 minutes.
Nope, my toddler is only 15 months though. I'm not expecting to try potty training for another year or so.
My OB joked that since these two will be so close in age, I may be able to potty train both at the same time since DS #2 will want to do what DS #1 is doing.
One can dream right? Both out of diapers at the same time! Think of the extra money for their college funds! haha!
*butting in, though I don't have a toddler*
One of my friends just did the 3-day bootcamp type thing and it seems to have gone really well!
Ashton only pees in the bath. ha-ha
No, but really, he is terrified of his potty. I really hoped he would at least be on his way to potty trained, but it is not looking so good. The thing that sucks, is he knows when he goes & will tell me, he is just so scared of sitting on his potty. I don't know why. I think he was a goldfish in his past life.
My DD is younger than yours and we haven't started yet. My plan was to wait until closer to 24 months because then the new baby will be past the newborn stage.
Now DD is starting to announce poop and pee a lot of times so I'm torn whether to get started. H thinks we should.
Also, I've heard not to potty train before adding a new baby because they will regress but who knows if that is true. Sorry I'm not more helpful
DS is 3 and yes, he's trained. DD is 2 1/2 and not trained. I'm NOT pushing it just because I want her trained before the baby. With DS we waited until HE was ready, and I really think that's the way to go. He turned 3, and a week later started using the potty - PTing took all of 1 day (for pee) and he had his #2s figured out within a few weeks after that.
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I'm in a similar situation...I'd like DS to be potty trained before #2, but hadn't been pushing it.
He's started doing great at home, but not going at daycare. He still doesn't seem to get the concept of "tell us when you have to go." So I haven't decided if I am going to push it come August (a la boot camp as well) or just wait it out and take time during maternity leave (when I clearly won't have any energy or patience...)
I defintely don't want it to be a new thing for him when DS#2 arrives. So if we do boot camp, I am going to do it at least a month before my due date.
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That's my thing... she's clearly ready b/c she goes at daycare all the time. She's had 4 wet diapers this week at daycare and that was after naps. I just can't figure out how to get her to start going at home in addition to daycare.
DS will be 19 months next week and I am not even thinking about potty training. He signs diaper, sometimes tells me when he poops, and uses the toilet while the tub is filling up.
So I guess I am laying the ground work but not actually potty training. I am not interested in taking him to the public bathroom all the time while we are out especially with an infant in tow. He will also have to go to the Toddler 2 room at daycare when he starts potty training.
I'll evaluate the situation a few months after the baby comes to see if I think he is ready.
I think you should apply this theory (https://crappypictures.com/2011/08/toddler-hallucination-theory-car-seats.html) to your son, only with potties instead of carseats.
DD just turned two and we are about 80% there with the potty. She actually has only had one slightly wet diaper (after a nap) since Tuesday night and no accidents (knock on wood!). She is still wearing diapers when we leave the house and at night/naps, but they have been dry consistently for a few days, so I'm almost ready to try going out without.
I had thought about doing the 3-day method, but DH and I both work FT, plus we're in the middle of renovating our apartment and DD and I are living with my parents. The upside to that is that DD has her own "suite" (bedroom and bathroom) at my parents' house (it was my grandmother's room before she passed away several years ago), so it's been awesome for DD to have her own private bathroom.
I think with ~3 months to go before #2 arrives, we have plenty of time to be fully potty trained. We CD so I was really hoping that I wouldn't have to be doubling (or tripling) up diaper laundry with a newborn in the house!
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yep. DS was fully potty trained by 25 months. it took us about 2 weeks. it was hell at first, not even going to lie to you. but SO worth it. now at 2.5 his bladder is bigger than mine. he uses the potty 5-6 times a day max and holds it up to 4 hours during the day (10 hours at night)
hopefully he won't regress toooo bad when the baby comes, he's been doing SO well with it for a long time so I'm hoping its a non issue
My DD is potty trained. I did the 3 day potty training when she was 22 months. She would fight me taking diapers off and fight me putting them on, so that was it! So, she will have been potty trained for just about a year when LO gets here.
I have heard that pediatricians do NOT recommend potty training within 3 months of giving birth to another child. So, at this point I would wait until your LO is at least 3 months old...unless you toddler seems to be extremely interested.
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He isn't yet, but we're working on it slowly. There are days where he is all about it (the other day we had no accidents til after naptime!), but he goes through phases of not caring for hours or days at a time. I just don't think he is quite ready.
I was concerned about getting him potty trained at first, but I've heard so many accounts of kids regressing once the new baby arrives that it may just be less frustrating to wait it out. I dunno. At this point I'm following his cues, talking to him about how big boys use the potty, using a reward system, and not trying to worry too much about it.
He is also such a small guy that I don't even know how we would manage to get him to go on a public toilet. He refuses to ever sit on ours.
DD goes on the potty, but is in no way trained. She will periodically ask to go or will go when we ask her if she needs it, but we aren't pushing it, especially given LO on the way.
We've just been following her lead. Like PP said, she started telling me she had to go or had gone, so we brought the potty into the house and have let her use it when she wants.
The daycare she's starting in Sept does potty breaks every hour on the hour, so I assume she will be more interested when she sees a whole group of kids doing it. She responds well to baby peer pressure.
That's a no for us. DS just turned two and has shown to interest. We're the kind of parents who (to a certain degree) let our kids figure stuff out on their own with our guidance. He weaned himself from nursing at 13 months and weaned himself from co-sleeping at about 10 months (and by that I mean stopped throwing a fit when he was put in his crib, etc).
I spoke to our pedi about it and he told me that as long as the kids have a decent grasp of it by age 4 he doesn't bat an eyelash. We let DS follow us into the potty if he wants to and he knows that "wee wee" and "poopie" go in the potty but he hasn't tried to sit on it himself or anything.
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DD is fully potty trained. We did the 3 day bootcamp last summer when she was 2 1/2 and it went perfectly. We never did pull-ups or trainers of any kind. It really was 3 days, and we're done. I felt bad because all the friends I recommended it to didn't have that kind of success.
That being said, I'm not sure I'd do it right before a new baby arriving. Maybe wait and capitalize on the whole being a big kid thing once the baby is here and settled to get started with it? I dunno. At that point you'll be pretty sleep deprived.
I'm hoping that being potty trained for over a year will prevent DD from having any relapses. She's fully independent about it at this point so I'm hoping...
My DS is a little on the older toddler side, but he's potty trained. Took awhile, but he finally started going to the potty consistently right after he turned 3 in December. However, we're still having issues with him pooping - he will only do it in a pull-up. I'm trying not to force the issue, but it'd be nice for him to do that in the potty, too.
I'm a little worried about regression, but since he's been pottying consistently for six months now, I think he'll be OK. I'll definitely be watching out for that, though, since he potty trained late.
If you're having a hard time keeping your child on the toilet, bring books or flashcards in there.
My nephew was PT by about 18months or so, and that was where he really learned letter recognition as well as phonetics.
Also, because she is using the toilet at day care, when she's at home, I'd put her in the training underpants, because hopefully that will make her uncomfortable enough to tell you when she has to go to the bathroom.
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DS#1 was 2.5 when DS#2 was born and he was NOT potty trained. I tried to force it and he was COMPLETELY uninterested. I ended up stressing myself out big time over it. Once DS#2 was born, I gave up and he pretty much potty trained himself. I tried the 3 day method too - followed it 100% and it was a total bust. I seriously think this was the worst part of parenting #1 so far!
DS#2 essentially potty trained himself right when he turned 2. It was not stressful AT ALL because he wanted to do it. There was no forcing on our part. I will not push it at all with DD#1.