I Taught My Baby To Use the Potty!

WOW,

I taught my baby to use the potty. What?! What do you mean?

When my daughter was three weeks old I started sitting her on the baby potty in my lap. I caught many pee’s and made a special sound and a hand sign when she went. This called attention to my baby’s pee, and over time she began to associate the sound, the sign, and the feel of the potty on her bottom with the sensation of peeing.

When she was about 5 months, I started to get stressed about it, so I stopped doing it for several weeks. Only putting her on the potty occasionally and only catching a pee once in a while. But a few weeks ago (around her 8 month birthday) she crawled to me and said “mammama” and whined at me. She isn’t normally like that, so I asked her if she wanted to eat and made the hand sign to go with it, but she stared at me blankly. So I thought, “why not see if she will potty?”. I asked her if she wanted to potty and made the hand sign, and she got all excited so I took off her diaper and put her on. And guess what! She peed!

I thought it was a fluke, but more and more she fusses a bit and I ask her if she wants the potty and she gets excited or smiles at me, so I put her on and she pees! She has even poo’d once or twice! I’m so excited! I think she might use the potty, when she asks, but with my help, by the time she is a year old. Then I can say BYE BYE diapers!

Coming Soon “Why I Taught My Baby To Use the Potty”

Mrs. Meg Logan

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2 Responses to “I Taught My Baby To Use the Potty!”

  1. Mary Says:
    December 22nd, 2006 at 1:59 pm

    My husband’s grandmother swears she toilet trained most of her 6 babies by the time they were a year. At first I inwardly rolled my eyes, thinking, she’s older, she’s probably got a faulty memory of how long it actually took. Lol.

    Then I read the Pearl’s method of toilet training infants; it sounds very similar to yours…and they swear it works. Sooo…I believe it does. However, I’ve never tried it myself! It seems like it would take a lot of dedication, when you think of how often breastfed babies fill their diapers!

    In any case, congrats! That will save you a lot of money in dipes and a lot of headache down the road!

  2. Twinklemoose Says:
    December 22nd, 2006 at 11:43 pm

    Yes, it really does work. I did this with my daughter and it was great fun. She was going to the potty with no help by about 16 months old. I kept using diapers for security for awhile, but finally quit because she was taking off her own diapers to go pee on the toilet. When my next baby was born, I tried it again, and he totally didn’t respond. To this day, he has never gone potty for me even one time, and he’s almost two.

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