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to attempt to potty train or not?

MyLucky7sMyLucky7s member
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Hi Ladies,

My daughter is 20 months old and I am due in June.  I had no thoughts on even thinking about potty training until after the baby was born and seeing if she was ready in the fall or winter.  However, a friend gave us some pull-ups and my daughter told me out of the blue the other day that she needed to go to the potty and she actually went. Yes this has only happened twice in 5 days but I have not been focusing on training her yet.  On one hand I feel like if she is ready maybe I should try to train her even though she is so young. My daughter is super independent and I feel like she will be one of those kids who will decide when she is ready or not. It also might be easier to train her now since  Ican devote all of my time to her. 

 On the other hand I am thinking that because she is so young she will not be able to get her pants off and will need alot of assitance for awhile.  To be honest, I think that with having a newborn, it will be so much easier to have her in diapers still.  Especially when I am BF and out in public, having two little ones and having to visit a public restroom in each store does not seem like fun.

So please can the experienced mommies chime in?

 

thank you!

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Re: to attempt to potty train or not?

  • MammaBear81MammaBear81 member
    DD1 started to ask to go potty right after her second birthday... I say if your DD is interested go for it.  We didn't use pull ups because it just confused her (we do use them overnight though).  We just put her on the potty every 30 minutes the first day, and every hour the following days until he started to regularly ask us to go (she got an M&M when she went).  GL!
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  • Sam78Sam78
    DD potty trained before her 2nd birthday; it wasn't harder or easier, it was just different.  If she's showing interest, you might as well go ahead and try.  As MammaBear said though, pull ups can cause confusion, so its better to just go cold turkey (we had DD just hang out outside until she got the hang of it).
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  • NannaNanna member

    I'm all about following the child's lead.  If she's interested - go with it and see what happens.  And also ditto not doing pullups.  We went right to underwear and in less than 3 days Kermie had it figured out.  He still needs some help with his pants but that will come with time. 

    Also, you can encourage your child to learn to hold it.  I don't (never did) ask Kermie every 30 minutes if he has to go - he goes less during the day than most adults do and he learned really quickly how to tell us he needed to go.  I purposefully didn't do that method of training because I didn't want him thinking he needed to sit on the potty and have tiny pees so often.

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  • luciagdelopezluciagdelopez member

    are you worried she may regress because of the new baby? Its possible, but if she is showing signs of being ready, then follow her lead.

    I agree that pull ups are not the best for kids.  DD had a few accidents but is now fully day trained.  At night she will sometimes ask for a diaper and other times say she is OK with her undies.  I just follow her lead.

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