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Post by angel22 on Oct 12, 2011 7:26:22 GMT -6
We always have so many discussions about Potty Training and advise for I figured I start a thread about what worked for ME.
I have three little girls and each of them was fully day time potty trained by the age of 2 and night time trained shortly after that. They were each poop trained between 15 and 17 months.
I am a SAHM so I'm sure that helped in the "early" training. I took it slowly, at each of the girls own pace, and never pushed them. I would praise them when then used the potty and if they didn't I would remind them where pee is supposed to go.
When DD1 started "solid" food around 5 months she became a little bound up so when I saw she was struggling to poop I took off her diaper and held her on the potty. She quickly and easily relieved herself and I took that as a good sign! Whenever possible, any time I could tell she was about to poop I would put her on the potty. When she turned 1 I gave her a potty ring. She played with it, sat on it to "read" her books and one day brought it into the bathroom on her own- it never left. DD1 poop trained the earliest- 15 months. I was pg with DD2 and used that as a training tool for DD1. I would talk to her about how she would be such a great helper when the baby came, how she is such a big girl, and how babies use diapers and bottles and pacifiers and cribs. By the time DD2 was born DD1 was out of diapers, in her big girl bed, and weaned from breast and pacifier. DD2 went through the same routine: on the potty whenever I could put her there, poop trained by 17 months, out of diapers completely shortly after her second birthday. DD3, same thing but she had more issues pooping so she was on the potty much more often than the other two had been. She was poop trained by 16 months, day time potty trained by 22 months and close to being night trained. (She wakes at night to pee and is usually dry in the morning but I'm not completely ready to trust her at night.) She just turned 2 a few weeks ago.
I feel that it was easier for my girls to train because I got them used to the potty when they were so little and because I made it routine, something else they were learning to do. I didn't make a huge deal out of potty training, I just made it a natural part of their lives- like learning to speak. Again, a huge part of this worked because I do stay home with them full time. Yes, potty training took a year for me, but it wasn't a steady push to do it, it was VERY laid back.
Every family needs to do what works for THEM but I just wanted to let you know of the option to train sooner in life and how it worked for ME and my girls.
Thanks for reading! ;D
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Post by mwatkins11 on Oct 12, 2011 12:24:02 GMT -6
My daughter is almost 18 months and I haven't even started thinking about potty training! I guess I should, but it scares me a bit. My husband works overnights and my daughter is taking one very long nap a day (about 4-5 hours). Kind of routine as they have been doing it since I went back to work when she was only 11 weeks old. I think that will be our biggest issue when she starts to potty train because my husband needs that sleep!
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Post by angel22 on Oct 12, 2011 12:31:16 GMT -6
My daughter is almost 18 months and I haven't even started thinking about potty training! I guess I should, but it scares me a bit. My husband works overnights and my daughter is taking one very long nap a day (about 4-5 hours). Kind of routine as they have been doing it since I went back to work when she was only 11 weeks old. I think that will be our biggest issue when she starts to potty train because my husband needs that sleep! A weekend potty boot camp like Sharon used may work really well for you guys then, when DD is a little older.  Over and done with, short and sweet! |
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Over and done with, short and sweet!