Let's talk about pee

[schmella]

How frequently are your LOs peeing these days?
How much?
What about overnight?
Anyone seeing signs their LOs might be ready for potty training?

[littleredfish]

I probably change her 4-6 times a day. Usually enough to fill her cloth diaper but I can never tell how much that is.

Overnight sometimes she does a lot, sometimes just like a normal day change. But then her 1st pee of the morning is bigger if her night pee is smaller.

No signs for potty training at all. Sometimes if I catch her trying to poop I will wisk her off to the bathroom and have her poop on the toilet but I can't catch her regularly enough. She comes with me to the bathroom all the time, but she doesn't seem overly interested.

[schmella]

This came up when my sister watched them for a few hours- she changed 2 poopy diapers each but none of them were very wet and she was concerned. They're not big drinkers so we make sure to give a lot of fruit and a few pouches to supplement fluids. I very very rarely change an only wet diaper ( they poop A LOT) during the day.

Overnight is a different story. We size up in overnights, and add a doubler, and we STILL leak occasionally . I think they save up their pee for nighttime!
W definitely stops what she's doing when she pees. Between that and the nighttime only pee, I'm really hoping she'll be an early PTer. A... he's such a boy. He does squat to poop, but he doesn't seem to care if he's wet or dirty.

[winogirl]

They say they change F 3-4 times at DC, then we usually change him another 3-4 times depending on poop. He definitely does a squat / pooping face but nothing for peeing. My luck is he will be in diapers forever.

[littleowl913]

E pees a lot. He loves drinking water. Overnight his diaper is usually super full. Sometimes he lets me sleep til 8, I'll have to run and change his diaper or he'll leak.

E moves away from everyone and then makes pushing sounds when he poops. My MIL says at her home, he goes in the back room to poop. He loves hanging out by our toilet whenever we're in the bathroom. It's so annoying because he always trying to flush the toilet and then I have to wash his hands.

[sunfrogger88]

We don't care if we're dirty. I probably change her 6x a day? I hope soon she starts to pay attention. We'd like to ttc #2 at the end of the year and id love for her to be pt by the time her sibling arrives!

[kensie5226]

We usually 3-4 wet diapers and one poopy. E stops to pee and brings me a diaper to change her when she's poopy (girls does not like to be dirty).

[leviosa]

I change a diaper about every 3 hours or so.

His diaper is still pretty full in the morning.

I'm not considering PT until at least 18 months. I'm not worried about him being ready, I need to be ready. With my DD, I trained her at 20 months and it went pretty good she was Day trained in 5 days and night trained within a few months.

[fuzzylogic]

DC is checking her hourly but only changing her 2-3x while she's there. We change her probably twice in the morning and 2-3x when home in the evening. She pees A LOT overnight. Thank goodness for our heavy duty overnight cloth diapers.

I don't think she's interested in PTing yet. She'll hang out with me in the bathroom while I do my business and sometimes sticks her hands in my pants while they're around my knees lol. She also likes to flush the toilet. But she doesn't really seem to care if she is dirty, though wet diapers seem to frustrate her after awhile.

[pearlvirus]

I usually change her every couple of hours. Morning diapers are usually pretty full but not crazy leaking. Some diapers are more full and some barely used, I don't worry about it.

I plan to start potty training as soon as it gets warm here - so probably around 18 months. She is already hiding to poop, seems to be touching her crotch when she is peeing, is interested in sitting on her sisters little pot and watching others pee. DD1 was potty trained day and night before 2 and I hope to do the same with DD2.

I found this book helpful:

Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right www.amazon.com/dp/1501122983/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_vTjIybGR5DJKH

[pearlvirus]

Here is an exert:

Let me state this simply: when is almost more important than how. Unequivocally, potty training is easiest when done between the ages of twenty and thirty months. It certainly can be done earlier or later, with caveats. For instance, most children younger than twenty months won’t connect the dots as quickly as older kids do, which means you’ll need to be more responsible for acting on their cues (as opposed to expecting them to act on their own) than you would be if they were older. However, before twenty months is unbelievably easier than after thirty months. Kids over thirty months are that much more sophisticated and skilled at manipulation. They know the power of choice and free will. My mom likes to say, “You want to do it before they know they have a choice in the matter.” Anyone with a three-year-old can tell you they are very adept at exerting their will. Your power struggles will be huge. And guess what? You won’t win. Smack-dab in the middle of that twenty-to thirty-month-age range is best for most people. Right around twenty-four months is ideal. At this age, your child is eager to please, is connecting a lot of the dots in the big world around him, is still malleable, and is dying for more responsibility. Think about it. Kids at this age love helping and feeling important. They want to help cook and clean and do chores around the house—it’s the perfect time to hand them their very own responsibility. You want to take advantage of this eager-to-please phase.

[kensie5226]

pearlvirus, our DC potty trains in the 2 year old room. I never planned on trying sooner. I figure at that point she'll want to do what everyone else is doing. Just like with sippies, naptime, silverware, etc.

[pearlvirus]

kensie5226 peer pressure can work for good 😂

[leviosa]

I second the book recommendation from pearlvirus. I used that book when PT my DD and it was very successful.