Potty Training M15ers

[elephantastic]

Hi all.
This isn't a "how to" thread but more that I'm curious where we all are on this. According to my Ped about 30% of us will have PTed kids by 2, 90% by age 3. My nanny swears her daughter was PT by 18 mo. My MIL says that my H and his sister were trained before 2 because she "didn't have time for diapers" (oh really? K thanks).
Does your kid communicate about elimination yet? Any that suggest they are ready to introduce to the idea? Any unicorn kids PTed?
Update me on the pee/poo habits of our kids.

[elephantastic]

We have a portable potty chair for E and a potty chair that will fit over the seat in her bathroom. I haven't set up the potty chair yet because she hasn't shown much interest.

From the little I have read about PTing, they have to be able to communicate in some way about their need to go which E has not been able to do so I hadn't given PTing much thought. She will run away from me if she's pooped...so there's that, LOL. She does not like diaper changes so I am forever telling her that we can stop all this once she uses the potty but I'm not chomping at the bit or anything. Diapers are nbd to me for the most part.

Anyway- E has recently started saying "pee" and pointing at the toilet or patting the toilet when I use it. So it seems at least on a basic level maybe she's starting to connect the two. I was thinking about getting the potty chair set up and sitting her on it and talking about it. She usually will pee within a couple minutes of me taking her diaper off if I let her run around naked so maybe I'll try to do that and stick her on the pot when she pees with praises just to kind of connect the two ideas.

Basically I'm feeling pretty lazy about it but since she has started saying Pee I feel like I should take advantage and move forward with some sort of effort.

[bethypoo83]

J has shown interest and will tell us he needs to go potty but won't actually pee on it yet. He seems like he's afraid of it. He will come and tell you when he poops (not that you can't figure it out quickly anyway. Lol) so I know he understands. I think we have to be more consistent and deliberate about it. I am off with him for two days and the weekend in a couple of weeks so I plan on being super serious with it for that 4 day stretch and seeing where it gets us.

[marygracerich]

We have purchased a potty seat for over the toilet. We put G on it once and she screamed so that was a fail. If you ask her if she pooped she will say "I did" if she has. She does not communicate that she has to go yet so potty training is not quite on the horizon yet.

[elephantastic]

Mar 2, 2017 7:34:11 GMT -5 marygracerich said:

We have purchased a potty seat for over the toilet. We put G on it once and she screamed so that was a fail. If you ask her if she pooped she will say "I did" if she has. She does not communicate that she has to go yet so potty training is not quite on the horizon yet.

E will sign No if she didn't. She will also sign No but then run away if she did. Running away = poop. Lol. So, she knows. 🙄

[marygracerich]

Mar 2, 2017 7:42:54 GMT -5 elephantastic said:

Mar 2, 2017 7:34:11 GMT -5 marygracerich said:

We have purchased a potty seat for over the toilet. We put G on it once and she screamed so that was a fail. If you ask her if she pooped she will say "I did" if she has. She does not communicate that she has to go yet so potty training is not quite on the horizon yet.

E will sign No if she didn't. She will also sign No but then run away if she did. Running away = poop. Lol. So, she knows. 🙄

Lt because I laughed at her running away. G hates getting her diaper changed but usually won't run away. She tries the alligator roll during the change though.

[linny12]

W has sat on the toilet and peed a few times, when she showed interest in sitting on it. She doesn't tell us when she needs to go, though sometimes she'll tell us that she has gone. The girl hates diapers and I always tell her "if you use the big girl potty we won't have diapers anymore."

Lately she's afraid of the toilet. She's definitely not ready, and I'm not sure I'm ready to PT with a newborn in tow.

[robotpcr]

According to my mom I PT'd myself right before 2. She's pretty reliable on this stuff so I guess we're not outside any possibility here. I've been thinking I might buy a potty soon. Haha. So that can tell you where we're at. With not spending money on diapers and knowing that we likely have some big changes coming up I'm not really in a rush. She used to tell me when she was pooping but not so much anymore and I talk to her about the potty when I use it.

[hotcoconuts82]

Ds loves sitting on the potty but I'm not really doing more right now. I'm going to wait until the spring and just give it a try.

My oldest dd trained very quickly right after her second birthday (like 3 or 4 days). My second dd took longer but was trained by 2.5.

I think our parents generation is remembering it wrong or they had some magic trick. Everyone my mom's age insists their kids were training by 2.

[lilbarn]

Ds has been using the potty now for just over 48 hours. He isn't really talking yet but if I can tell that he's about to go I put him on the potty and we hang out in the bathroom a bit. I also put him on it straight after a bath or shower. So far I keep him in a diaper unless he's on the potty so it's working out about half in each.

We had tried introducing the potty in mid January because he seemed interested but he started holding it until he was back in a diaper so we left it alone until the other night when I just decided to give it a go.

[flyinghorses6]

K says "pee pee" and "poo poo" AFTER she goes. She mostly doesn't like getting her diaper changed so I am ready when she is to get this show on the road (although PT with a newborn seems daunting). She also knows what I am doing when I go to the bathroom and she always wants me to sit on the potty, but when I ask if she wants to she screams no, and runs away. I've put her on a few times and she doesn't like it so she cries or tries to get up instantly. So not quite sure she is ready.

[emu0013]

We did the 3 day with DD and it worked really well. I was planning to do this summer with K, this week she has started to want to sit on the potty at school any time anyone in her class is. Yesterday, I picked her up and she had peed on the potty 4 times and had dry diapers. We don't use potty chairs at all, we use the potty inserts. I am not going to push it. I felt like with DD we converted her crib as soon as she potty trained which was when she was just over 2. LO is not ready to have her crib converted.

[amylee545]

N has showed ZERO interest. Homegirl has no problem going in her diaper... she's always completely unphased when she has a poop or a seriously soggy diaper. We own a potty and a potty insert but I'm not pushing it... I'd like to start when she's 2, but we'll see.

[honda13]

We have dabbled a little bit. She shows interest and tells you after she has gone. She understands the overall concept, but we haven't had any success. My mom swears I was just shy of 2 and basically just potty trained in a day. I'm not pushing anything at this point, but will reassess closer to 2. I also have concerns about regression once #2 gets here if we are successful.

[robotpcr]

I do believe my mom when she says I PT'd before 2 because she also freely talks about how awful it was to PT my brother and that he was 4 before it happened fully.

[Deleted]

We have a little potty and started putting her on it a few months ago when she started telling me she had a poopy diaper. She peed on it randomly a few times. I think she started to understand the concept because she stopped telling me about her dirty diapers and didn't want to use the potty so I didn't push it.

Last week I noticed she was standing with her knees pushed together and asked if she wanted to use it and she said yes and after a while sitting on it she pooped. I don't want to push it but at the same time don't want her thinking the potty is optional so I'm kind of at a loss on how to proceed.

[animaldoctor]

DD is starting to show interest. We have a little potty that she loves. She peed in it the other day which was fun but I am only putting her on it when she asks to. I have zero interest in potty training at this time. My plan was to start at the end of my maternity leave this summer but I won't discourage her if she initiates interest.

[jezebk]

My parents said my siblings and I all basically potty trained ourselves around age 3. They didn't push it and we didn't have any issues. DS was just over 3 years old when he was fully PT. We didn't really push it and it finally just clicked for him. Abigail copied her brother one day about two months ago and sat on the toilet but didn't actually pee in it. That was the only interest she has had with the potty and I have no plans to PT her anytime soon.

[smilesp]

After DS poops in his diaper, he leads me to the bathroom and opens the lid so I can put the poo in. Then he flushes and we wave. So...that's where we are.

[linny12]

Mar 2, 2017 8:40:11 GMT -5 hotcoconuts82 said:

Ds loves sitting on the potty but I'm not really doing more right now. I'm going to wait until the spring and just give it a try.

My oldest dd trained very quickly right after her second birthday (like 3 or 4 days). My second dd took longer but was trained by 2.5.

I think our parents generation is remembering it wrong or they had some magic trick. Everyone my mom's age insists their kids were training by 2.

My mom gave me a picture of me sitting on the potty at 18 months. I had underwear on. I was like dafuq? I swear they somehow had it easier than us, haha

[hotcoconuts82]

Mar 2, 2017 15:23:25 GMT -5 bwisco123 said:

I'm sort of dreading having to find a potty every time we're anywhere at the drop of a hat.
Yes yay for no diapers but ugh. Public potties.

Oh my gosh yes!! For the first couple months after I trained my oldest, it was such a pain in the butt. I kept thinking" why did I want this to happen again?"

[cosmicav]

DS tells us "poop" and grabs his crotch after he poops or pees. He likes sitting on the potty though. He also has peed in the potty successfully a few times after his bath, but we haven't pushed it too hard because new baby.

We will probably push it a bit more over the summer since I'll be on summer break and will have more time, and DS should be adjusted from DD's arrival.

[CatLady]

My kid loves sitting on the potty chair, saying potty, talking about me going potty, loves to say pee, loves to say poop...does not understand that we pee and poop on the potty.

I'm not worried about it. I'm going to keep fostering her interest and when she gets it, she gets it. If she's not trained by 3, I'll do something.

I'm weird and I'm in absolutely no hurry to PT. It honestly just sounds like more work. Like, going out into public with a PT kid sounds like not fun. Plus, my kid is so small that she'd never be able to pee on a big person potty. She'd get pee all over the place. If I'm being honest, I'm not encouraging it or discouraging it.

[lilbarn]

After 2 days of using the potty at least a few times today was a bust. He wouldn't sit any longer than about 30 seconds and didn't use it at all.

Mum told me she started putting me on the potty at about 6 months but she also is upfront about the fact there was usually only 1 dirty diaper a day and she knew when. As she said she was only catching it but all least she didn't have to deal with cleaning the dirty diapers and they were only wet.

[jvega1]

M will watch his bros in amazement while they pee but if I ask him If he wants to go he runs away and looks a little scared so I'm not in any hurry over here either.

[ker9171]

DS says "I poo'd" when he has pooped OR when he hasn't- lol- I'm like no you didn't. I think he might say it when he's farting haha.

[ajm0711]

We haven't started doing it yet. We don't even have a potty seat or insert. Honestly we'll see about doing it possibly this summer. She will tell us when she's pooped and watches us go.

My ultimate goal will be to have her pt before we have a second. Which we plan on TTC starting this spring.

[aconite]

We bought her a potty for Christmas and she really likes it, she says "potty!" and has peed on it a few times but will go days in between. She's still not great a communicating that she needs to go, but I got her a cute board book called Potty that she will sometimes "read" while sitting on the potty.
I would like for her to be trained sooner but since she won't tell me when she needs to go I suppose it will still be a while.

[lgsdesigner]

DS1 - Fully trained by 20 months, but showed interest at 15 months.

DD - Trained by 2yrs 3mo. Interest started at 23 months.

Eli - He started training at 18 months, and goes 50% of the time. He started to become more serious about it this past month and enjoys going and being rewarded. We give him a mini Chips Ahoy cookie or mini Oreo if he goes which he loves! We are not worried about timeframe. As long as he is trained before age 3, then awesome.