Post by billyhorrible on Jan 4, 2017 10:41:38 GMT -5
1. Have you started potty training? When do you plan to start? Is LO showing interest? Nope. I'm very "follow their lead" when it comes to potty training and we've got no interest over here. In my personal experience, when there's interest there isn't really any training to do.
2. Are you going to do a potty chair, a potty seat, or both? potty seat. I hate the potty chair. Like I said, I'd prefer not to train, do I don't want to condition them to go in a special toilet then have to train them to use a regular one. I don't want to have to carry pee or poop in my car. And I don't want something else to have to clean.
3. What potty chair/potty seat do you have or are you considering?We used the baby bjorn potty seat with LBB.
3. Anyone who is not a FTM have any words of wisdom/advice/experience? Our doctor told us that really verbal babies usually potty tain early, so he was surprised when LBB wasn't showing interest at 2 years. But at that point the kid was still insisting he hadn't gone, when he had. At 2 years, 7 months he announced that he wanted to poop in the potty and that was it. A month later he was peeing in the potty. 2 months later he was waking at night to pee in the potty. There was no training, and no accidents. He was just ready. I think parents put a lot of pressure on themselves to potty train by a certain age, but it really has to come from a desire on the part of the child.
1. Haven't started. I don't have a set plan on starting, just gonna go with the flow. LO has interest in sitting, but hasn't actually peed yet.
2. Potty chair. Personally I think the chairs work well because it gets their legs planted on the floor and makes it easier to learn. Plus they can sit on it by themselves without having to climb onto the toilet.
3. We have the ikea one, it works well and I recommend it. DS actually still uses it for pee because it's easier for him to keep his pants on in the chair, than if he has to spread his legs on the potty. When he poops he takes his pants and underwear totally off and spreads his legs to either side of the toilet.
4. Words of wisdom, hmm. I would say at this point especially do not push at all. Any pressure is going to ruin it. So just have it be super nonchalant and whatever, make it part of routine. We have LO sit on the potty every day before bath time. He hasn't gone yet, but it's just part of routine for both kids. Normalize it as much as possible. And also, don't have too many expectations at this point. DS was potty trained at 2.5 years and THAT was early.
Our DS is a stage that sounds a lot like budders' DS - he's really interested in when we go and knows the motions of what happens on the toilet, but isn't really anywhere near being what we determine as ready for toilet training. He will sometimes tell us if he pooped, though it's always after the fact.
We did buy him a little stand alone potty already that doubles as a step stool, since we figured we'd need it eventually. We showed it to him and told him that's his potty for when he's ready. Sometimes if we're going into the bathroom where it's at, we'll ask him if he wants to sit on it, and a lot times he says no, but sometimes yes, so we'll put him on there just to get him comfortable with it. I don't think we plan on actually doing anything more formal than this for quite some time though.
My MIL did bring over a couple books for DS - one is a Karen Katz book called "A Potty for Me," and another is a book with Abby from Sesame Street. She said our niece really liked them when she was getting ready to potty train, and that those seemed to help.
1. We haven't started to train, but E is showing a lot of interest in it. Right now, he will poop in his diaper then say potty and run to the bathroom to sit on his potty. We've had 2 successes at actually going on the potty. For now, we're going with it but very nonchalantly and aren't pushing him into anything. I also think even if we trained now, he'd still be relying on us to pull his pants up and down. Plus the kid pees like a million times a day, so I don't want to even know how many times we'd have to sit on that damn potty for each time he had to use it.
2. We have a potty chair. I think it's a First years one, nothing fancy.
3. See #2
4. FTM so I'll be looking for advice.
For now, I'm trying to really focus on his ques to see when he starts pooping so we can to ask him if he needs to sit on the potty before he poops in his diaper rather than after.
Just an anecdote for those of you saying you'll wait until they wake up dry: DS has been using the potty for 2 years with zero day accidents and still wakes up with a wet pull-up every morning. His cousin, who is almost 4, never ever pees during the night but is still in diapers full time. So waking up dry is not necessarily an indicator of being ready.
1. Have you started potty training? When do you plan to start? Is LO showing interest?
Haven't started yet. For a while now G has been loving going into the bathroom with us, flushing the toilet, grabbing toilet paper and trying to help us (when I say us, I mean my mom and me). So I bought her a potty chair a few weeks ago and she sits on it while we go, pretends to wipe herself, and flushes afterward. I told the pediatrician that we had gotten her the chair and she likes to go through the motions while we're in the bathroom and she was happy with everything we were doing. I think when G starts really telling us that she needs to go, or wants to use it then we'll actually start on the training. We've let her sit on it without a diaper a couple of times but no action, I think it's all curiosity at this point.
3. What potty chair/potty seat do you have or are you considering? The Summer Infant My Size Potty, I love that it looks like an actual toilet and hope that it will get her in a good habit of flushing and that it will help her understand that it's not just another toy.
Just to clarify, is that that he won't pee, or he went pee?
I don't think we're close to starting, and though H and I have discussed in the abstract, we definitely don't have any concrete plans at this point as to how to proceed. V definitely has an interest in the toilet, and when I have to take him into the bathroom with me, he's curious about what I'm doing and what ends up in the toilet. He also gets the process of using toilet paper and flushing, and always waves bye-bye as the water goes down.
That being said, I don't really see him displaying any sort of readiness to do it himself, or awareness of when he has to go/has gone, so I don't think we're ready to start. If daycare was doing that, I might feel differently, but I think she's waiting to take our lead.
This where we are too. She takes an interest, likes to flush and we have a potty chair that doubles as a step stool that she uses for brushing teeth. She knows when she's gone poo poo. We ask and she grabs her diaper and says poo poo. I asked the dr last week at our appt. and she said typically kids start around 2ish and they are all different on how quickly they take to it. Daycare will start introducing in the next class which starts in august. For now she said just keep it easy breezy, let her have positive experiences in the bathroom and take her lead on the interest.
ETA: a new thing in the last few weeks has been when we change a poopy diaper C has to get a wipe and wipe herself. She only reaches her lady parts and I let her do it after I wipe. She says wipe wipe wipe. So dang cute!
1. Have you started potty training? When do you plan to start? Is LO showing interest?
No. LO is way less verbal than DD. I tried sitting him on DD's potty seat a few times just for funsies and he was terrified. They do potty training in the toddler room at daycare that he just started in December, so once he shows more interest there and can communicate better, then we'll consider it.
2. Are you going to do a potty chair, a potty seat, or both?
Potty seat. DH was very anti potty chair with DD from the beginning because he doesn't want to have to clean poop/pee out of something. I mostly agree with his logic.
3. What potty chair/potty seat do you have or are you considering?
We have 1 cheap Elmo one from Walmart leftover from DD but the other one we had was gross so we threw it out. We will probably buy another Walmart seat at some point.
3. Anyone who is not a FTM have any words of wisdom/advice/experience?
They say that boys usually potty train at a later age than girls, so we'll see. But I completely agree with PP comments about verbal kids and I think that is why DD trained on the early side. If the child can't communicate well yet, I don't know how potty training would be possible.
We have a potty chair that my kid likes to take apart and sit in, so I don't think we're anywhere near ready, lol. She has started grabbing her diapers when she's wet and running off when I ask her if she's pooped. It's a start, I guess?
I did get the oh crap! Potty training book to read as it was highly recommended.
Post by blueskiessmiling on Jan 4, 2017 13:36:48 GMT -5
DD started expressing an interest in sitting on the potty a couple months ago. Within the first few times, she started peeing on the potty. She's been sick the past few weeks so I've stopped offering the potty, but she was down to using only a few diapers a day at that point and was using the potty otherwise. Even being sick, she's still asking to and making it to the potty a couple times a day. DD is very verbal (IMO) and has very good receptive language skills as well, so I think that plays largely into it. She wakes up from her 2 hour nap dry 90% of the time, and wakes up from night dry maybe 30% of the time (asking to pee immediately).
We have both the Minnie Mouse potty chair that I think a lot of others here have, or she sits on the big potty with us holding her on it.
We're definitely not pushing it, but I'm certainly not going to discourage it either. Kids do everything at a different pace, so just as some kids were crawling and walking much earlier than others, some kids are ready for the potty earlier than others.
Post by musicfrk2002 on Jan 5, 2017 0:46:43 GMT -5
1. Have you started potty training? When do you plan to start? Is LO showing interest? We have not started, nor even thought about potty training. No interest in the toilet except when it flushes.
2. Are you going to do a potty chair, a potty seat, or both? No clue. I should probably start looking into these eventually
3. What potty chair/potty seat do you have or are you considering? We do not have one yet.
Just an anecdote for those of you saying you'll wait until they wake up dry: DS has been using the potty for 2 years with zero day accidents and still wakes up with a wet pull-up every morning. His cousin, who is almost 4, never ever pees during the night but is still in diapers full time. So waking up dry is not necessarily an indicator of being ready.
This. DS (3.5) has been daytime trained for a year now but still wears pull-ups at night and is 50/50 being dry in the morning
I just finished reading Oh Crap! Potty Training. All my local mom friends have used it with success, so I figured we'd start there. I plan to do the no pants days next month after we move. He hides to poop, can pull his pants up and down and communicates needs pretty well, so worth a shot. It's also supposed to be a little easier with cloth diapers, so hopefully he picks up on it. He likes the potty chair best, he's usually scared of the big potty and he can brace to poop better. Ours is a safety 1st with a softer seat, which is nice.
1. Have you started potty training? When do you plan to start? Is LO showing interest?
No. No plans to start, just whenever the moment feels right. DS was a little over 2.5. Yes she is showing lots of interest, at least in copying us by wanting to sit on the toilet lots when she has her diaper off. She always wants to wipe her bum with toilet paper even though she didn't do anything haha.
2. Are you going to do a potty chair, a potty seat, or both?
We have both, mostly she likes to sit on the real toilet though probably because everyone else does. We have the training potty in the bathroom for her to play around with though if she decides to show interest in that some day.
3. What potty chair/potty seat do you have or are you considering?
It's one of those fisher price ones that you can put batteries so it makes noise when you pee but we never put the batteries in when DS learned. We try to keep it as simple as possible but it was gifted to us so we used it.
4. Anyone who is not a FTM have any words of wisdom/advice/experience? When DS was little I was always very adamantly told to just wait until their ready and it won't even be like training. We didn't make a big deal out of things, we celebrated first pees and poops, if he asked us for a treat we would give him one but didn't offer, just tried to keep things as normal as possible while he learned. He thought buying/being gifted underwear was cool. Not pushing overnights at all even though we are closing in on a year of potty trained. He still wears Good Nights to bed but has been waking up to go pee often lately and rarely has wet overnights now.
Hi all. I just got a message from daycare that C went pee on the potty today, so I am feeling like I need to actually start thinking about this. I am so not ready, it just feels too early for me, but if he is expressing interest I guess I shouldn't fight that. I would love to hear your thoughts.
1. Have you started potty training? When do you plan to start? Is LO showing interest?
2. Are you going to do a potty chair, a potty seat, or both?
3. What potty chair/potty seat do you have or are you considering?
3. Anyone who is not a FTM have any words of wisdom/advice/experience?
1. No not trying yet. I feel like with DS we started too early. He was around 18 months and he took a long time to train so going to wait closer to age 2 or at least until winter is over. In my opinion it's easier to train them when it's warmer inside and outside the house
2. We are using a little turtle potty seat. She shows interest in sitting on it but not peeing in it yet
3. My words of wisdom is to start when they are really ready because it can be a long drawn out process if they aren't.
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