Potty-training with 2u2

Re: Potty-training with 2u2

• ctbride08 member

  July 2011

  - how about a plastic potty chair that she can keep in your play area thus keeping the baby out of the bathroom?

  - if you are into babywearing, you could keep a quick sling or carrier on hand to throw the baby into on your way to the toilet

  - depending on the size of your bathroom, can you put an exersaucer or small playpen in there?  plop him in there and keep him contained for a few minutes.

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• lkf041 member

  July 2011

  First of all your friend is crazy!  

  When I trained my DS it was nearly impossible keeping my DD out of the way.  In fact, every time he goes she still follows him in to the bathroom.  My only advice is to let your LO watch the older one.  My DD still claps for him every time he goes and he's been trained for a few months...  this was my way to involve her.  

  When we initially trained and he sat in there for a longer period of time I would leave books in the bathroom.  I would read to both of them or just the LO if DS was doing his thing.  No other advice except know that it does get easier, much easier.

  Good luck and stick with it!  Here's to hoping our LO's decide they want to be like their Big Bro/Sis! 

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• trinny member

  July 2011

  My DS wasn't yet crawling when DD trained, but I'm well aware of the into everything stage!  (my DD was a lot worse than my DS!)  I would probably put him in the exersaucer or pacnplay while you are in the bathroom or just hold him with a toy. 

  Your DD was like mine was and she trained pretty quickly after the initial weekend of no diapers.  Start on the weekend when your DH is home to help you out.  My best tip-- don't use pull ups.
  

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• maramarrie

  July 2011

  I did the 3 Day PT method. I had a friend and my parents take turns with DD for the 3 days. They came over and gave her 100% attention so I could commit to the method and give DS 100% of my attention. You have to be pretty dedicated to her method to make sure it works, but I figured if it didn't work after 3 days I could give it my own spin. I did it "her way" for 3 days and it "clicked" with DS on the first day. We've had accidents and night wetting since then, but after just 2 weeks we've had 5-6 completely dry nights, all but 2-3 naps were completely dry, zero pee accidents (except twice when we weren't there to take him to the potty, poor kid). I trained for both day and night, as the method suggests. It was a success for us. After those first 3 days I was able to split my attention and didn't need as many hands available to help take care of DD.
  

  
  
  

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• howleyshell member

  July 2011

  You're gonna think I'm psycho but my solution was to potty train them both at the same time since we were in the bathroom all the time anyway.

  I'd read a book called "Early Start Potty Training" and it talked about elimination communication in the very young.  I totally didn't think it would work so I was shocked when the baby peed in the potty at 3 months old.

  My oldest was 19/20 months and my youngest was 3 months.

  I just kept the baby with us and made him a part of it all.

  If you don't want to try to work on potty training consider things like tupperware, etc to put in the bathroom so the baby has something to play with and keep him occupied while working with the older one.

  
  

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