I have bought a potty and a training toilet seat for Natalie for TT (I was thinking in summer would be best). The training toilet seat has pictures of Thomas on it, so she likes it a lot.
Occasionally she says she wants to sit on the toilet, or wants to wee on the toilet. So I sit her on it, but she never does.
I have a 2mo baby and was keen to wait a few more months before we tackled TT with Natty. She was definitely not ready before P was born, but her communication skills are now a lot better. Given her interest in the toilet, I wonder if I should just buy some knickers and give it a red hot go? (Even though she's only ever weed or pooed in a nappy...) Or perhaps her fascination is just the novelty of the seat, and I should wait until summer? I really don't feel up to cleaning up lots of puddles of wee when I'm rather exhausted with a young baby, but I also want to do the right thing by N and encourage her.
What would/did you do?
If she wants to have a go then don't hold her back for later JIC it works out. There is nothing wrong with trying and going back to nappies if it's the wrong time. I'm a big believer in waiting till they are ready anyway. When they are ready it is so easy.
C recently decided that he was and 3 weeks later he has only had a couple of accidents. I tried him a couple of months ago and all he did was pee on the floor all day We have a couple of options. Both toilet seat and potty and he uses what ever one takes his fancy at the time.
Last edited by ~Raven~; August 11th, 2009 at 03:07 PM.
id give it a go
we tried with Dd about 3 months ago she wasnt ready.
she shows alot of interest in teh toilet and knows what wee and poo are and tells us after she does a poo now and knows when she has done a wee.
we will try again in a couple of weeks. hardest part for us is getting her into a routine as she is at school 4 days a week
I would let her keep sitting on the toilet/using the toilet and keep her in nappies. Ask her if she needs a wee/wants to try when she wakes up or before her bath. I prefer a more gradual adjustment than putting undies on straight away and then worrying about accidents.
Thanks heaps for your responses. I think we will keep going the way we are for a couple of months. Now it's starting to get warmer, so I'll wait til she's in shorts and dresses I think (and when I'm not feeding Phoebe and/or settling her for a nap all day long, LOL!). In a few weeks we might go and make a big deal about buying some pretty knickers.
Thanks again.
I was in the same situation as you, we have gotten DD used to using the toilet she was doing really well and then fell off while trying to get off on her own so she freaked out for a few weeks. She moved up a room at daycare and a lot of the toddlers are going to the toilet so she is shoiwng an interest again. We have got her a seat with a ladder and she isn't so scared of sitting on the toilet now. She is in the pull up pants and is telling me when she needs to go to have a wee. she forgets with her poo but today she let me take her as soon as she started and we finished on the loo.
I think I will put her in knickers in a couple of weeks.
I think my approach is a bit different to most other people by the sounds of things! I think toilet training is just that - you train them to go to the toilet - so you can start whenever you are ready!
I may have only TT'd one child so far, but she was fully day trained just after her second birthday. It was really hard work (and I had a bub only a couple of mths old too!) but it certainly paid off.
Check out "thepottytrainer" - it was recommended to me by some friends who swore by their technique, and it worked well for us too.
Whatever you decide - I think you should stick to, I don't like the idea of swapping from pants to nappies as I think its confusing for the child. Thats JMO though
Good luck!
Have you been to potty training dot com dot au?
An old friend of mine swears my their method - she started toilet training her DD at 18 months and she was completely dry day and night by 20 months. She found the method so effective that she started training her DS at 12 months - and he was completely dry and nappy free at 16 months!! I feel a bit silly when I go over there - with my DS pooing his pants when her toddlers (one who cannot yet speak) are running off to the toilet and pulling down their pants!!
The method can be done at any age, however, and they have a boy and girl pack you can order depending on age bracket, and a fabulous book to compliment it.
I have just placed an order - lol!!
If she seems ready and is showing an interest she might be ready. We also started by buying a potty and we put it next to the "big toilet" in our bathroom. We started by putting her on the potty when we changed her nappies and sometime she would do a wee, sometimes not. She wears MCNs too and so she would have been able to feel when she was wet. I started changing her nappy more often so she would get used to the dry feeling a bit more, iykwim? Maybe you could let her sit on her potty each time you change her nappy, and tell her that if she needs to do a wee she can do it on the potty instead of her nappy. If she is ready, offer her lots of encouragement and praise when she does well, dont make a big fuss if she has an accident.
Anyway, this is really long but i just thought i'd share what Claire does as she is not that much differnt in age to Natalie. We just got Claire to sit on the potty whhen changing her nappy and she was loving using the potty so we got her some little undies and a couple of months ago we put the undies on her and told her to tell us when she needs to do a wee or poo. She had lots of accidents so we decided maybe she was not quite ready so we started nappies again.
Then recently, She told us she wanted to wear undies so we tried the undies again (its getting warmer , yay!) and she had only a couple of accidents. She would stand there and wee and then say "look mummy, I'm weeing!" so she knew what was happening. We wold tell her 'come on, lets go sit on the toilet" and we would help her get to the toilet (potty.. we call it "Claires toilet"). We cleaned up the accident and didnt make a fuss over it, we just told her 'remember to tell mummy next time so you can sit on the toilet' and she started telling us "wee mummy, my toilet" so we would take her in and help her.
So she wore undies again the next weekend and didnt have a single accident. We asked her occassionally if she needed to do a wee and every time she said no. So we reminded her to tell us if she needed to do a wee or poo.
Anyway, she decided she didnt want our help and would just go into the bathroom herself, take off her pants and undies and do what she needed to do. She was so proud of herself and we encouraged her and told her she did really well on the toilet and told her that she was really clever etc etc. We gave her a little sticker sometimes as well. she loves stickers - she sticks them on her nose and thinks its the funniest thing ever.
I also wasnt worried about her seeing me sitting on the toilet and she would always ask "mummy what doing?" and I would tell her "i'm doing a wee on the toilet", and then she would always tell me "wee on toilet". I dont know if that sort of helped it stick in her mind that people do wees on the toilet.
Anyway, she wears nappy for sleeping, I'm not really sure how to tackle the whole night toilet training, but day wasnt too difficult.
TT - what would you do?
Reply With QuoteWe have a couple of options. Both toilet seat and potty and he uses what ever one takes his fancy at the time.
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