DD started toilet training at about 18 months but it wasnt until she turned 2 that I had her in training pants and stuff. She is 2 1/2 now and fully toilet trained, even through her day sleeps, only wears a nappy at night time.
DD is nearly 27 months and still not particularly aware of her pees or poos. If you leave her without a nappy she makes it to the bathroom to poo but does so on the bathroom floor. She just pees wherever she is. I'm not pushing it, it's not worth it to me. I'd rather wait until she's good and ready and do it in a week than have any amount of stress over it, kwim?
I waited till E was well and truelly ready and I was ready and it wasnt until 2 .5 that we began to start, she didnt have the vocab or the co-ordination to start any earlier. Somehow we did poos relatively easy it was the wee that took longer for us.
Bec
I thought DD was going to toilet train around 18months but the signs of her readiness came and went......it wasn't until she had just turned 3 that she seemed to suddenly click and it only took a week or so until she was clean and dry during the days. She is now 3&1/2 and we are only 3 sleeps away from celebrating her being clean and dry overnight for a whole 3 weeks now!! For me it really was a case of her toilet training when she was ready......it was also so much easier and stress free for DH & I, and more fun too
I've heard that there is actually a trigger in there brain that will just switch on. Until then they can't feel that they need to go til they are going.
It's different for each kid. I have a friend who's son was out of nappies 24/7 at 12 months old. Very rare. Another friend's DD was out of them full time at 16 months.
But my 3 year old is still in night nappies.
I started DD1 at around 16 months, but she was 2 - 2 1/2 before she started to go. 3 1/2 when she came out of night nappies, but still did wet the bed once or twice every week or two. She has only really stopped wetting the bed the last 8 months or so.
DD2 started around 2. Got the hang of it around 2 1/2. Went back into nappies at 2 & 9 months when DS came home from the hospital. Is out of day nappies again now at 3. It was starting daycare that got her going again 3 weeks ago. Still in night nappies though.
Pooing is supposed to be easier than weeing. I'm not sure why, but they usually get number 2's sorted first.
My DD1 is 2yrs and 3months and has been dry for 2weeks though still in a nappy at night time. I tried her about a month ago and we had lots of accidents so i left it and then she pretty much did it herself when she was ready. She refused to wear a nappy one day and so far so good. Our only issue now is she doesnt like to do No2's on the toilet or potty but she wont do it in a nappy either. She just needs encouragment she does tell me when she needs to go she just gets a little frightened i guess but so far only one accident.
I started toilet training my DD when she was 20 months.
If your DD is aware of her poo's and wee's then i would start toilet training her now, if she's not ready she wont go but atleast if she is then you'll save money buying nappies all the time.
DD was aware of her weeing and poos for months and months before we could get her to train.
We first tried when she was just turned two. Complete disaster, after two weeks I gave up.
Tried again (a bit half heartedly) at 2.5 - still very much hit and miss.
About a month before she turned three she announced she wasn't wearing nappies any more and just started using the loo. No dramas and only a couple of accidents. Still working on #2's though.
Charlie is 26 months and showing no signs of being ready so I won't push him yet. If he gets to three without showing signs of readiness I may try him without nappies during the day. But yes I too have read that something in their brain 'switches on' when they're ready.
we started TT at 2 yrs 5 months and we are still having accidents. I have to take DS to the toilet every couple hours as he isnt really telling us he needs to go until its too late. He does tell us when he needs to poo but wees he has no idea.
I think we started too early for him but am not going to revert back to nappies now. I am happy to keep prompting him until he gets the idea.
We started at about 2.5 as well. DS has the general idea and we have a couple of accidents a week, some weeks none, some more. WEll, when I say accidents, sometimes he deliberately does it on the floor
sleeps he is still in nappy pants for both, Im not sure what to do with that one. There is a family history of going well into teens. Apparently there is a 40% chance of any of our kids being in the same situation.
When do you start? DS still has a very, very full nappy every morning, but often after a day sleep its totally dry. The coupld of times he's fallen asleep in the car etc and we've put him in to bed without a nappy in the day, he has woken up wet and most distressed by it.
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what age did you toilet train?
For me it really was a case of her toilet training when she was ready......it was also so much easier and stress free for DH & I, and more fun too
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