Anyone potty training DC#1?

landosmommy

DH and I have starting thinking about potty training DS. He is only 19 months old, but he is very interested in what we're doing when we are in the bathroom. We don't plan on fully potty training him just yet, but we ordered a potty for him, and we are going to just start telling him that that's where he goes "potty" like when we go on the big toilet. Anyway.... I was wondering if anyone has started potty training DC #1 yet and what your experience with it has been. TIA!

Monsieur_et_Madame_Ha

I didn't actively start potty training DD2 until after her sister was born, but I remember I had the potty out probably from the time she was 20 months old or so. For 6-ish months, we just let her use it when she wanted. We did encourage her and praise her when she did, but didn't force her to either.

We probably would have done the actual training earlier, but I didn't want to deal with potty training (or a freshly potty-trained child) and adjusting to life with the new baby at the same time.

Danaz1

We have had the potty out since she was like 16 months she went a few times then lost interest we are starting back up again and she finally went tonight hoping it sticks

WhitePicketFence

We started PTing DD1 around 25 months although we had been talking about it, reading books, and watching movies about it for a few months by that point. We didn't want to start any sooner since DD2 was still a newborn and DD1 was already having to adjust to so many changes as it was. Although she was physically ready at that point, she wasn't emotionally ready until later. She would be interested in sitting on the potty for a while and then we'd hit a roadblock where she'd refuse to.

We had a lot of stops and starts until she turned 31 months. All of sudden, everything clicked and she started peeing all the time on the potty. We put her in underwear at that point. We had all sorts of issues getting her to poop on the potty until she hit 35 months when, again, everything clicked and we haven't had an accident since.

Whether you decide to start now or wait, don't be discouraged if you have to backtrack a time or two. When they're truly ready, it will happen. Your LO is still quite young to PT so it could go either way at that age. Good luck!

new2011mommy

KimmieS1756:

We potty trained DD1 at 2ish...started right before she turned 2 when she showed signs of being ready. We didn't do a little potty and just put the toddler potty "seat" on the big toilet. We did it cold turkey. Went straight to underwear. She had a few accidents each day but by day 3 it clicked and we haven't looked back. I can count on 1 hand the number of accidents she has had since. And she is also night time potty trained since the beginning of january and calls us if she needs to go during the night but we cut liquids after 5:30 so normally she goes right before bed and then not again until she gets up at 7am. We reinforced the potty training by giving her a "treat" when she went like 1 skittle or 1 mm and then letting her put a sticker on a sticker chart I made her. Good Luck.

Did you go straight to underwear at night right from the start? DS will be 27 months when the baby comes and since he is not showing interest yet, I was thinking of waiting until after the baby comes. I want to also go straight to underwear if possible, but wasn't sure if it is crazy to do underwear at night or if I should use pullups. He is going into a bed before the baby comes so he will be in a bed when I start to train him.

howleyshell

Mine are 17 months apart.  At 15 months (I was huge pregnant) my toddler came to me, said poop and proceeded to poop in front of me.  I had no clue what to do so I did what I always do... I read a book.

Check out:  "Early Start Potty Training".  It's an interesting look at early potty training.  

My main advice is to wait until the baby sleeps thru the night.  It's gonna be tiring and take a lot of patience.  Sleep for Mamma helps.

We went full force once the baby was STTN and he was out of diapers by 20 months.   Coincidentally I also started putting the baby on the toilet (hey... we were spending a lot of time in there!).  Would never have considered doing it but read about elimination communication in the book and figured why not - I've got nothing better to do.  Baby was pooping pretty much exclusively in the toilet by 5 months.  Then I went back to work and dropped the ball but he too was out of diapers (day time) by 20 months.

It's totally do-able but it's gonna take some highly devoted time and effort.

Good luck to you!

 

new2011mommy

KimmieS1756:

new2011mommy:

KimmieS1756:

We potty trained DD1 at 2ish...started right before she turned 2 when she showed signs of being ready. We didn't do a little potty and just put the toddler potty "seat" on the big toilet. We did it cold turkey. Went straight to underwear. She had a few accidents each day but by day 3 it clicked and we haven't looked back. I can count on 1 hand the number of accidents she has had since. And she is also night time potty trained since the beginning of january and calls us if she needs to go during the night but we cut liquids after 5:30 so normally she goes right before bed and then not again until she gets up at 7am. We reinforced the potty training by giving her a "treat" when she went like 1 skittle or 1 mm and then letting her put a sticker on a sticker chart I made her. Good Luck.

Did you go straight to underwear at night right from the start? DS will be 27 months when the baby comes and since he is not showing interest yet, I was thinking of waiting until after the baby comes. I want to also go straight to underwear if possible, but wasn't sure if it is crazy to do underwear at night or if I should use pullups. He is going into a bed before the baby comes so he will be in a bed when I start to train him.

We went to underwear during the day but diapers/pull ups at night. When she started having dry diapers consistently at night and calling us when she needed to go to the bathroom we took away the diapers at night and moved her to underwear 24/7!

Thank you for the information.