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Potty Learning Questions
The pedi said it would be a good idea to start introducing the idea of potty learning to Alessandra. I got her a potty book, and we want to get her a potty. Does it matter what kind we get her? Is a small potty that sits in the bathroom better than the kind that attach to the big toilet? Do you have a potty that you would recommend? TIA.
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Re: Potty Learning Questions
It might be a girl/boy thing. She said to just introduce it but not push it. A likes to follow us into the bathroom, and we've started talking about pee pee and poo poo, but other than that, she doesn't seem interested yet. We want to have the potty around for her to get used to.
https://www.amazon.com/BabyBjörn-050015US-BABYBJÖRN-Little-Potty/dp/B000056J79/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1288030212&sr=8-9
We got this one, just to have it, to show the boys that this is where they would go poop or pee and they really like it. They sit on it, they move it from room to room, they put things in it (like their sippy cups or toys). But lately, after or during baths, Spencer has motioned that he wants out of the bathtub and he'll go and sit on the potty for a minute or two and then he'll get back in the tub. He doesn't do anything (he's only pooped on it one time and only b/c I knew he was in the act of pooping!), but it's neat that he knows it's there. And they always follow me into the bathroom, when I'm going to the bathroom, they'll fight over who gets to sit on the little potty.
We have both - a different kind in each bathroom - but the easiest for introducing them to the idea for both girls was the stand-alone potty chair. We just got the simple Baby Bjorn one, and they'd sit on it whenever DH or I used the bathroom.
Our introduction started with letting them sit on it naked right before bath time. It took a L O N G time for Elena especially to figure out how to peepee in the potty, but sitting on it was always fun.
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We have this one and Luke loves it. Any time he poops or pees it cheers for him, and he gets soooo excited. I think the seat detaches from the potty and will snap onto the toilet when they're ready to start using that.
I just follow Luke's lead. Sometimes he'll tell me he needs to pee, and he'll actually do it. Sometimes I'll ask him if he needs to go, and he'll go. But then sometimes I'll ask him when I know he needs to go and he'll refuse. It's all very loosey goosey...no pressure at all.
Yes.
Nope. Or maybe, but they're too afraid to tell you that you would, in fact, be an absolute nutjob to pay FORTY-THREE dollars BEFORE shipping and taxes for something your kid POOPs in.
We have both the bjorn little potty and potty seat and both are great, I'd definitely recommend them. We got Megan the little potty around 19 months and got her a couple potty books too. I was also taking her into the potty with me and explain everything too. She was definitely interested and learned everything but wasn't really interested in doing it. Sometimes she sat on it, but mostly she just wanted to read the books and talk about it. A couple months later she started talking about the big potty so I would hold her on the big potty when she asked. So then we got the potty seat (this was probably around 2) and she LOVED that. (but I think she only actually pee'd in the potty 1-2 times mostly she just liked to pretend and then flush and wash her hands, we just went with it)
We started actual potty training at 29 months and she picked it up really quick. She started on the potty seat because she preferred that and we had even put the little potty away. But then she had trouble pooping on the big potty and we found that she liked to poop on the little one because she can get some leverage with her feet ;-) haha She still prefers to poop on the little potty and pee on the big one but she does fine pooping on big potties in public and at other people's houses.
Wow that was long, sorry about that!
I'm gonna say no. If it gets A to poop in the potty then think of all the $$ you'll save in diapers. Right? Right??! (So says the person who has two musical potties because she's too lazy to drag her kid upstairs everytime he thinks he needs to go.)