Potty training-Girl

vicky7139 · September 2013

When did you/are you planning on potty training your little girl? (I specify gender because they tend to go earlier??)

dns05 · September 2013

I was thinking of trying when my daughter is around two. Her pediatrician told me at her 15 month appointment that the average age to start girls is around 2 1/2, but I could start her earlier if she seemed interested. I think it really depends on the child.

baloneydisc · September 2013

We have not started yet. DD is 20mo and has shown no signs of readiness.

kalette · September 2013

We have started. She has been using the potty sporadically since about 6 months when my pedi suggested we introduce her to it so she would know what it was all about. The last week or so I have been letting her run around the house bottomless, with the potty right there. She has been doing so well! Every time she has had an accident she says "peepee!" and points to the spot where she peed. Then I say "Uh oh, pee pee goes in the potty." and we go to the potty and she will finish there. This morning she only had one tiny accident, it was just a few drops on the linoleum and then she ran over to her potty to finish. She also stayed dry the whole 2 hours of ecfe class yesterday, which I'm thinking is another good sign she's ready. I am seriously hoping this sticks!

ETA: DD is 17 months.

allardr · September 2013

For Christmas (LO will be 17months) I'll get her a potty and some potty books. We will NOT start training but just want her to get used to seeing potty, sitting on it, etc. We'll read books about it just to warm her up to it. Other than that we'll just wait for readiness signs.

biancag7 · September 2013

I haven't started potty training DD yet but I do take her with me when I go & tell her we need to go tee tee. Then when she hears it we clap. Just so its not so scary for her when she has to do it.

yaykarin · September 2013

I read the book Early Start Potty Training (https://books.google.com/books/about/Early_Start_Potty_Training.html?id=sWSGCUSisHUC) A really refreshing look at how way back when and currently (mostly outside the US) potty training at age 3 is super late and how others are able to do it around age 1-2.

I am a full time working mom so all of this scheduling business and "just let them go diaper free until they get it" craziness was absolutely out of the question for me. Impossible.

But, the book had great recommendations about thinking of the whole process differently as many phases that you let your child naturally work through as opposed to just "trained or not trained". So we started "potty learning" at 10 months.

Really simple. Just sat her on there with books every time she woke up (so after naps and in the morning) and if she peed she got praise, hugs, kisses and if not, we just changed her diaper as usual and carried on. Zero frustration, low key, and by 18 months she started telling us when she needed to go. Not 100% but a lot of the time. And slowly over the next year she had less and less accidents until at 2.5 we switched to panties and she figured it out pretty quickly after that.

mommymegan831 · September 2013

around 22 months DD was showing alot of readiness signs, peeing on the potty, telling us when wet, ect. We tried and she did great the 1st 2 days, then she had about 5 accidents in one day, including right after she was put on the potty, it clearly wasn't time. At 25 months she wouldn't keep a diaper on, we tried again, and she got it right away. I think you really need to wait until they're totally ready. Now I've got a little guy so I may need to push it because I've heard boys are harder, but I know with DD waiting until she was ready was key. Also, as soon as DD started walking around w/out the diaper everyone I knew began pting. Most kids I know we're potty trained until closer to 3

NatesLady1309 · September 2013

I want to wait until she's at LEAST 2 because I have seen it go very wrong when you start trying to potty train before they're ready. I would like her to be showing some signs of readiness. She has started pointing to/messing with the front of her diaper in the past few weeks. Particularly when she has a poop in there but at other times too. I am encouraged that she seems to be a little more aware that there's something going on down there. She has always been one of those kids who will walk around with a poop in there forever and not care until recently. Not that I don't change her but YKWIM. I feel like if she's not trained by the time she's 3 I will push it then but before that I will try to wait until she's ready.

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