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Potty Training

AMcLawsAMcLaws member
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This has been the milestone I have dreaded. Not because I don't want it to happen. I'd LOVE for her to be potty trained. Simply because I have NO idea how to go about it.

Do I buy her a special seat?
Do I wait for cues, or just introduce her to it and hope she's interested?

She's recently started pointing to her privates and saying "pee pee" during diaper changes. She'll tell me if she is making or has made a "poopy". Hubby and I both use the bathroom with the door open, and explain to her what we're doing "mommy's making pee pee in the potty like a big girl!"

Is 21 months too soon to start potty training? We're considering trying for another baby, and I would LOVE to have her out of diapers before another one arrives.
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  • cecilyandgautamcecilyandgautam member

    I think when to begin really depends on how you want to go about it. On one end of the spectrum is the potty train in a day or two method, where you wait for the kid to be old enough to tell you when they want/need to go and you put them in undies and never look back (start age 2.5-3). On the other end is when you start putting them on the potty several times a day, as soon as their old enough to hold their head up and eventually through association, they come to understand that the potty is where they can do their business. You put the diapers away when they've fully transitioned to only going on the potty (babies often fully trained by 18 months). 

    We've kind of taken a fusion and at 16 months, we're now at a point where we can have DD in undies without a diaper for an hour or so at a time on the weekends. When she is better able to communicate the need to go, we'll ask our DCP to support us with the potty training at daycare and we expect she'll finish up training rather quickly once it's a 24hr thing.  

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  • shunt1983shunt1983 member
    No it's not but all depends I'd buy a special one and get her used just try having her learn how to take down pants sit on potty explore it.  It's your first so it's always the harder potty train.  Take her in their she goes on hers you go on yours.  Before 2 it's a very no pressure just look and see approach.  Girls tend to train earlier but not always my son fully trained at 2.5 my daughter at 3.5.  
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  • orangecurlsorangecurls member
    I think 21 months could be a really good time, particularly for a girl. Elizabeth pantley has some good info about potty training on her website, a readiness quiz, some tips, what to do to 'get ready, set and go'. My dr office has these available at the office.
    https://www.pantley.com/elizabeth/books/0071476903.php
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