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Potty training at 14 months?!?

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So my DD had been showing signs of maybe wanting to potty train, maybe, I'm hoping y'all can help me. The last few weeks she will go inthe same corner of the house when she poops and she'll squat while she is going. Now the last couple of days she has been squatting when she pees. I know she just peed cause I check and it's warm. Is this an early sign of wanting to potty train? She seems content to continue to play after she goes, but is more willing to get her diaper changed and usually it is an epic battle! What do you ladies think? I think I'm crazy...Sorry bumpin' from my phone!!
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  • ms51030ms51030 member

    My daughter has been doing a very similar thing and also been waking up dry from nap times. (She is 15 months) But I still don't think she is ready to tackle the idea of potty training. Maybe it's because I don't want to start to early because I'm afraid she might regress and I don't want to confuse her with going back and forth.

    I've always been told that there are three signs of 'readyness'. The two I meantioned above that she is doing and then the last one is letting you know they are ready. By that logic we still need to wait it put and tackle it when they are ready.

     

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  • kg_08kg_08 member
    I'm not sure if it's a readiness sign, but really you can start whenever you feel like it. I bring DD to the potty every so often and she's been peeing about 2x a day on the potty for the past week. Even if your DD doesn't grasp the concept yet it wouldn't hurt to introduce it. Since you know which corner she goes to it should be easy enough to figure out when to bring her to the potty.
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  • Kingston54Kingston54 member
    I have heard going to a certain spot to go is a sign of being ready...
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  • bella&babybella&baby member

    I would go for it.

    I did a couple naked days with my son at that age, to make him more aware of what it felt like when he needed to go, and what it felt like while he was going. when he would start to pee, I would tell him he was going pee and take him to the potty and say "pee pee goes in the potty."

    I didn't plan it really, just every so often he'd be naked and we'd do this. I always talked to him about going potty when I was going.

    recently I kept catching him starting to poop, and get him to the potty in time for him to go there. I'd reward and praise him. Obviously it has been many months of very non-intense potty learning, but he started to understand it gradually, and now he's in underwear all day. Still has accidents sometimes, but I'd rather he stay in underwear and have accidents than go back and forth.

    Good luck! The more you teach her about it, and keep talking about it, the more likely she is to want to do it. Teach her, and she'll show you when she's interested enough to go for serious potty training.

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  • DaryneDaryne
    my son is 16 month and we've started to casually work at potty training. some of the good tips i learned we to move diaper changes to the bathroom if possible and to dump poops in the toilet so they can start to get the idea. the first day i did this my little guy used the potty. can't say it wasn't just a fluke or not. i also bought him a potty several months ago to get him used to it and to feel like it was him. anytime i use the bathroom he comes with me and will play with his potty or sit on it. it helps build a concept of ownership of the potty and also kept it from being this strange,scary, new thing once we start trying to use the potty the proper way. i'd say if she seems intrested in the toilet in general and what you're doing when you go or try to copy you in any way maybe it's time to start gradually interducing it. 
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  • MomOfTripsMomOfTrips

    Go for it. Start introducing it and see what happens. We just started potty training a week ago (19 months) although they have been showing signs for a little while. If your interested in some of the things we have done/ learned along the way you can look at my blog.

    Also (I posted this before) the average age for potty trained kids around the world is 18 months. 

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