Post by gratefulgirl on Apr 5, 2016 7:26:59 GMT -5
My pediatrician gives the 3 signs of readiness as:
1. Can stay dry for nap (check) 2. Will sit on the potty for at least 3 minutes (nope) 3. Interested and can communicate (sort of)
DD2 asks to go potty all the time because she hears her big sister talking about it. She tells me after she poops but shows no awareness of pee. I'm basically at the phase where I'll sit her occasionally when she asks to provide familiarity but I am in no other way going to push it until after she turns 3. If she initiates more intensive training on her own before then, great.
DD1 just finally achieved regular night dryness this past week at 4 after being basically day trained for a year. She is so stinking proud of herself and happily at that phase where she takes herself to the bathroom and handles it herself from start to finish. I know we'll get there with DD2 and am in no rush.
We are trying. Mainly because I want him to go to the school in teach at next year and he has to be potty trained. So....we started by just sitting on the potty when he wanted too before bath. Peeing was luck of the draw. Now he has progressed to being able to go whenever we set him on there. He has also started telling me after he poops. We are trying to be really low key about it and only make him do it if he wants to. That is why we are starting so early so we don't have to push him. He gets a mini MnM if he goes
We haven't started yet and I don't think he's ready. I hadn't planned on doing anything until he was closer to 3 but the preschool we're sending him to starting in August really pushes it. So I think what I'll do is pull out the seat and start having him sit when he wakes up and before bath, and any time I go in there (he always follows me in when it's just the two of us home). Then we'll see how it goes from there. I'm for sure not going to push anything until late summer because between baby coming early May and our plans to move in late June, he's got a lot of major life changes coming up already.
DD really has not expressed interest yet and is not communicating about it regularly. There have been a handful of times that she has 'told' us she had a poop, so there is a glimmer of it in the distance.
I've tried putting her on the potty at her request and leave her there for several minutes. I think she legitimately tries to pee, but then as soon as I take her off. She pees in the floor. Every. Time. Apparently there's some misunderstanding there somewhere lol.
We have a potty book we have read her a number of times. We have a potty that she has sat on, and used twice for pee and once for poop, total fluke though. I just want to start planting the seed. Both times she peed she was with DH, and she ran to get me and show me what she had done, so cute!
She sometimes tells us when she needs a diaper change, but still fights most diaper changes. She used to always wake up with a wet diaper, then full it a few minutes after getting up, that is not always the case now though, oh well.
If I catch her grunting I'll put her on to try to poop, but the excitement of sitting there then the eventual boredom win. And she poops immediately in her clean dipe. We picked up two potty books for Easter.
A isn't there yet. Only in the last few weeks will she give us a sign that she has to poop. Or after she poops she'll point to her diaper and say "poo." I haven't even bothered sitting her on the toilet yet.
Post by weeklyplanner on Apr 5, 2016 9:12:48 GMT -5
Not ready at all, so neither am I. I won't push it until this time next year or closer to Aug 2017. I hope he will be trained around 3, but if it's a little after that's ok too. I see absolutely no rush in doing it unless he's truly ready because at this stage, if they're not ready, it's just the parent being trained. They all get there eventually and he won't be headed off to college in diapers!
Signs he's not ready: -Wakes up from 12 hours of sleep with a bursting overnight diaper -We don't even own a potty yet! -His naps are so short that I don't always put a totally dry diaper on. Like, if I changed his diaper 20 min before his 30-45 min nap, I'm not changing it again. Either way, it's wet. -I'm pretty sure he still does little pees all day and isn't holding it. -"DS did you poop?" He just stares at me or pretends I didn't ask him because he wants to play.
DD isn't ready. She will tell you poop sometimes before she goes but it's not consistent. They will start working with them at daycare when she moves up to the 2 year old class. I figure we will see how she is this fall and I'll take cues from daycare. We don't have a little potty yet but she does enjoy reading a potty training book we got from my sister. I also found some training pants and panties in the recent hand me downs from my sister so she has seen them and we talk about it often.
With baby boy due at the end of May I'm in no hurry, and will follow her lead and see how she does at daycare with it.
The class he's in starting in August will work on potty training when they show readiness so I'm just watching to see when he shows awareness of what's going on with his diaper. I'm ready when he is.
Post by asundevil80 on Apr 5, 2016 11:26:14 GMT -5
Same as most -- we're totally not ready yet. N will say yes if I asked him if he pooped and he's 80/20 on accuracy. But other than that, he has zero interest. My experience with my older son was great. Day care did most of the hard work and I followed suit
Not ready at all, so neither am I. I won't push it until this time next year or closer to Aug 2017. I hope he will be trained around 3, but if it's a little after that's ok too. I see absolutely no rush in doing it unless he's truly ready because at this stage, if they're not ready, it's just the parent being trained. They all get there eventually and he won't be headed off to college in diapers!
Signs he's not ready: -Wakes up from 12 hours of sleep with a bursting overnight diaper -We don't even own a potty yet! -His naps are so short that I don't always put a totally dry diaper on. Like, if I changed his diaper 20 min before his 30-45 min nap, I'm not changing it again. Either way, it's wet. -I'm pretty sure he still does little pees all day and isn't holding it. -"DS did you poop?" He just stares at me or pretends I didn't ask him because he wants to play.
Pretty much all of this except that we do own a potty. We brought it up rom the basement and he dragged it around to use as a chair. When I sat him on it with no diaper he freaked out.
I am interested to see how the next year goes. We might casually try this summer. I would like him to be potty trained before next summer because we are hoping for a June or July 2017 baby and I would rather not have to retrain at that time.
I am really in no hurry though. He does go through a lot less cloth diapers during the day now though, so that's a small glimmer of hope for the future.
Post by lucilleaustero on Apr 6, 2016 11:22:43 GMT -5
DD potty trained at a little over 2 years of age; she just told us one day that she did not want to wear diapers anymore and that was that.
DS tells us when he is going poop. He loves to watch us go through the mechanics of using the toilet. He likes sitting on the potty. But, it is not on my radar to train yet. He will let me know when he is ready, they all do.
Not really on our radar yet, but she is a creeper likes to come in with me while I pee. She also tells me as she is pooing.
Maybe once we're at our new house (June), will get a little potty for her to sit on.
The creeper at my house is fascinated by wiping. Back off man!
J likes to wipe my knee or leg with a piece of TP. She doesn't understand the point of wiping, but she wants in on it. No thanks, I don't need help with that.
DS has shown interest. He likes going in the bathroom with us and talking about his potty. He can tell me when he has to poop and has gone one his potty a few times. He has not communicated knowing when he needs to pee, so we'll be in diapers for a while.
We're not pushing things, just putting him on the potty if he tells us he has to poop.
I hate dealing with poop in cloth diapers so I've put DS on the potty when he looked like he needed to poop/was pooping since he could sit up unassisted (6 months?) aka I trained myself. Conveniently he was a 1-2x a day pooper and fairly predictable. Since about 13-14 months he will sign poop when he needs to go, I put him on the potty, and he poops. He occasionally pees when he's sitting there, but doesn't seem to "get" that part of it yet. I haven't pushed pee training yet since poop is what I care most about/much more work with cloth.
LO tells me when he pooped and asks to be changed. I sat him on the toilet today with a toddler seat attachment and he freaked!!! So we're in no rush and will just follow his lead!
I hate dealing with poop in cloth diapers so I've put DS on the potty when he looked like he needed to poop/was pooping since he could sit up unassisted (6 months?) aka I trained myself. Conveniently he was a 1-2x a day pooper and fairly predictable. Since about 13-14 months he will sign poop when he needs to go, I put him on the potty, and he poops. He occasionally pees when he's sitting there, but doesn't seem to "get" that part of it yet. I haven't pushed pee training yet since poop is what I care most about/much more work with cloth.
I'm so much more comfortable with poop at this phase. It's plopable. And it's 1-2x per day for us.
I hate dealing with poop in cloth diapers so I've put DS on the potty when he looked like he needed to poop/was pooping since he could sit up unassisted (6 months?) aka I trained myself. Conveniently he was a 1-2x a day pooper and fairly predictable. Since about 13-14 months he will sign poop when he needs to go, I put him on the potty, and he poops. He occasionally pees when he's sitting there, but doesn't seem to "get" that part of it yet. I haven't pushed pee training yet since poop is what I care most about/much more work with cloth.
Just curious, isn't it just as "icky" (for lack of a better word) to clean one of those little pottys with poop? How does one even clean that? I'm hoping the little seat on the toilet works for my LO because I don't want to deal with that whole thing.
Also, I'm very impressed at your DS for letting you know and doing all his poops on the potty!
DS isn't ready yet. But I did want to go ahead and buy a potty so he gets used to seeing it, we can talk about it, etc.
Are most of you ladies using a potty chair or what? Are they all basically the same? I really need to educate myself because I literally know nothing about the whole subject. It's just starting to creep on our radar. Are there alternatives to the potty chair for our LOs age?
DD used to tell me every time she was about to poop, but now she only does it right after half of the time. She likes to sit on the potty whenever she sees it but has never gone in it. I'm not rushing anything. Lately she has been taking her diapers off when her clothes are off and thinks it's hilarious. Love her
I hate dealing with poop in cloth diapers so I've put DS on the potty when he looked like he needed to poop/was pooping since he could sit up unassisted (6 months?) aka I trained myself. Conveniently he was a 1-2x a day pooper and fairly predictable. Since about 13-14 months he will sign poop when he needs to go, I put him on the potty, and he poops. He occasionally pees when he's sitting there, but doesn't seem to "get" that part of it yet. I haven't pushed pee training yet since poop is what I care most about/much more work with cloth.
I'm so much more comfortable with poop at this phase. It's plopable. And it's 1-2x per day for us.
Yup, it might not be so bad now but it was really gross for awhile. And I prefer it this way to have the potty be something he's always known, not a scary transition.
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