potty training question!!

YoungMommy2010 · November 2012

when did you start??

and HOW did you start the process??

my son is 1 year and 10 mo..i'm hoping to start soon as I'm 5 weeks pregnant with our second and by the time the second ones comes I want him out of diapers! lol

superaunt · November 2012

we started when she started showing an interest- maybe around 27 months? she's still not even close to being PT.

mbgreenwalt · November 2012

We started at 2.5y. She was showing interest and telling us when she wet or had pooped.

I started at home by asking if she wanted to sit on the potty. She was nervous and always said "no". One day at daycare she saw another girl go potty and then she started to ask if she could go. From there we did undies whenever we were home and I took her to the bathroom every 20-30 minutes for the first week and then I extended it to an hour the second week and then the following week I started asking if she needed to go and let her lead. It took a couple weeks before she was pee trained and now she is 100% pee trained. Pooping is not going so well. She holds it for days and won't go in the toilet. So we're still working on that after 2.5 months.

april2891 · November 2012

We started potty training at 20 weeks, also when i got pregnant with number 2. WE did the potty training in a day method. he got the process down in the day, and we had him in undies from that moment on, with pull ups at night. it took a couple months but he is two now and completly potty trained with no accidents. just stay with it.

Stephanie2167 · November 2012

We started DD at 27 months and we did Lora Jensens 3 day method. We still have an accident here and there but it worked great for us.

olechka · November 2012

We started just getting her used to sitting there and getting used to it. I did the 3 day method but she wasn't ready, she didn't get it yet, now she actually does meaning she pees to get a prize, asks to sit there when wet. I regret pushing her into it before she was ready as now she developed a fear of pooping in her diaper and for hours after putting her to bed she asks to go poop. I think consitpation issues and holding it in came from that too.

lujain · November 2012

We potty trained at 37 months. We let DD pick out special underwear (Hello Kitty, Thomas, and Cars), and told her to let us know when she needed to use the potty. We stayed home with her over a long weekend so we could keep a close eye on her instead of sending her to preschool/daycare. We did not bring her to the potty every half hour or hour but waited for her cues. I bought a plastic sheet cover to protect the couch so she could still sit on it. We had a lot of accidents at first, but by day 8 she had no accidents.

DD preferred the smaller stand-alone potties instead of using the big toilet with a ring. We've had occasional accidents, but now she is fully potty-trained and is doing great.

We let her pick out small treats for using the potty. Mini-M&Ms or a vanilla wafer for pee. Poop was an issue for a while, because she preferred to poop standing up in her underwear, so we upped the ante and offered her a little ice cream for pooping in the potty, and it worked like magic.

megann831 · November 2012

DD started to show interest around 1 year and 9 months. She was taking off her diapers and would go when put on the potty, but once we put on underpants, she had a few good days, then started wetting her pants constantly so we gave up. I had DS when she was 2 years and 1 month and a few weeks later she was constantly taking off her diaper, so we tried again and she did great, it took just a few days.

Good luck, but don't get your hopes up. Your son is still very young and I've heard boys take longer than girls. I went through it, and it does kind of suck having 2 in diapers, but it's also easier then running around looking for a bathroom with an infant and a toddler who has to pee NOW

acaudill75 · November 2012

Every child is different. DD1 showed interest very young, about 19-20 months, but we didn't want to push it, and she was sporadic. Then when DD2 came on her 2nd birthday, and DD1 saw me diapering DD2, she refused to use the toilet. We would just take her diaper off at home and let her run around naked, because its cute anyway, but she would get all anxious when she had to poop, and would scream on the toilet and hold it in, so we put the diaper back on. I figured she wasn't ready because DD2 would be getting something (diapers) she wasn't, and I really didn't want to give her a poop complex. Now she is 32 months old, and is starting to tell us she has pooped in her diaper and walking funny, so she is probably ready. She will poop on demand if we give her a treat, but only if we offer a treat. Character panties have no effect on her desire to train. She is ahead of her friends at daycare in every other area, speech, drawing, playing, etc., so I'm not worried. She won't go to kindergarten in a diaper. And I am sure DD2 will want to go on a toilet like her big sister, so hopefully she will be easier. I think a PP said something about it being easier to change a diaper in public when you have two little ones anyway, and I agree. Have you seen the public toilets? I don't even want to think about taking DDs into one. Ewww.

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