When are you/did you potty train?

duffmaker

M is 17months old and she's doing things like bringing me a diaper after she has pooped, going into the bathroom to poop, being super interested in the toilet and following me almost every time I go, even getting me toilet paper. I'm wondering if she's ready to potty train, or maybe start working on a sort of EC? It is very very obvious when she is pooping and her wet diapers are changed at about the same times every day.

Any thoughts?

diana.filipi

We had two failed attempts with DD so I finally just started telling people that I wasn't going to potty train her.  She'd do it when she was good and ready.  I was kinda kidding I guess but kinda not also.  I was also very pregnant with DS at the time.  I think it must have been like reverse psychology without my intending it that way.  She did in fact do it on her own.  She was potty trained about 2 months before DS arrived.  She would ask to go potty and so I'd just take her diaper off and she would go.  They we put her in panties.  She was right at 2yrs old when she potty trained her self.

christinak22

My DD was about yours age when she started telling me before she would poop and go on the potty almost every time. She wasn't in the "training" stage until just after she turned 2. It was nice not to have to change poopy diapers, but didn't push it. I would say encourage it, have her use the potty if she asks, but it's probably too early for her to physically hold it until she gets to the potty.

sunnyday016

I would say if she's that interested, go ahead and take a very laid back approach. DD PT'd at 2y2m.

crh1221

We're in an almost identical stage. Once she transitions to her next room at daycare (they have a toddler sized potty in their room) I'm going to push it a little more. Right now she will ask when she sees her little potty and will usually go, and I usually sit her on it first thing in the morning and after naps which most of the time result in pee. I'm going to buy a second potty and keep it in our downstairs bathroom so she has a chance to see it more often. I have a feeling that when she sees all the kids in her new room going on the potty, she's going to want to do the same.