I thought I would share my potty training experiences with you all.
This is the story of how I potty trained my 15 month old son (complete daytime trained) and what I am doing now with my 10 month old daughter.
When my son was 9 months old he used to follow me into the potty. Well, he followed me everywhere, the potty was one place among many. But I started to wonder “Just how early CAN you potty train a child?” and I began my search. It seemed to me that before there were diapers, and currently in third world countries where they do not have diapers they must do SOMETHING! I searched the internet and discovered that indeed they did something! They trained their child to “go on command” and then they took them to the potty right from the get go! Imagine my surprise to find that in some countries children are DONE with potty training at 12 months. Some even earlier. Boy, I started to think that I could do this with my son. So I embarked…
I bought a Baby Bjorn potty chair, it was very little and he could sit on it easily. At 9 months I set my son on the potty and made a “pss” sound just to see if I could get him to go. Nothing. Hmmm… well I tried a few more times over a couple of days. Nothing. But then, he DID go, quite by accident I am sure. But I was SO excited. I did the biggest potty dance anyone has ever seen. My son thought I was crazy. I thought I was crazy. I mean the doctors tell EVERYONE that babies aren’t CAPABLE of holding their pee or being potty trained until they are at least 2. Well, I thought that was crazy, and wanted to experiment.
I decided however to put the potty away for just a few months. My son was cruising and I thought “any day he will walk, and when he walks I’ll start”. My reasoning was that it is easier to take a walker to the potty than a crawler. (Now I don’t really think there is much difference.) Ha, my son didn’t walk until a week before his first birthday. He was born at the end of March, so we were coming into spring and summer and this seemed a perfect time to start.
I took away the disposables. For two weeks or maybe a whole month I put him in cloth only. I pointed out when he was wet. I told him that wetness was called pee pee. I told him that pee pee went in the potty. I showed him. I put my pee pee in the potty and he watched. I let him flush the toilet. I set him on his potty whenever I went to use the toilet. He was beginning to think it was loads of fun. Then I took away the diapers. He peed on the floor. I pointed and said “ooh ooh pee pee in the potty!!! not on the floor!” and when we were outside I just got excited and pointed out that he was peeing. After only a week I was sick of the mess. (For the record, there are microfiber towels that will wick this stuff out of carpet in a jiffy!) I started to be more firm about the potty. I only got excited when he went in the potty. I was taking him about once every 45 minutes, so there wasn’t too much mess, but any accidents were not very fun. I then decided that he would clean up the mess himself. So after he made a mistake I would hand him the towel and tell him to clean it up. He thought it was less than pleasant, but was eager to help out.
It only took a few more weeks and he was using the potty regularly. He would take himself, since he wasn’t wearing any pants he could just go when he pleased. It was heavenly! He had a potty strike, where he peed on the floor while looking defiantly at me. I swatted his thigh. He got over that strike pretty quickly. Then it was bliss. Now all I had to do was teach him how to take his pants off and put them on. He wasn’t able to do that for a while. So I helped. I still considered that potty trained. He was out of diapers, and he told me when he had to go, with only occasional reminders and no accidents. In fact I was sure he was potty trained when I took him on a four hour plane ride in a pull up, but at the end he was dry and begging for the potty! He still wasn’t trained at night, and I had NO IDEA how to help him do that, so for my son, we just waited. The night time potty training came along at 18 months.
Now I have a second child. I was so amazed that my son could hold his pee by 15 months that I wanted to see how early I could do it with my daughter. I started sitting her on the pot when she was two weeks old. It was amazing. At two weeks she was peeing alot and I didn’t catch it all. But any little bit helped. I sat her on a pot held between my thighs while I nursed her and when she went I made the “pss” sound and said “pee pee”. We did this off and on for the first 5 months. Then I got tired of it for a while and put it down for a could weeks.
She was able to go on command, but she also went whenever her bladder was full even if I forgot to make the sound. (OF COURSE!) Well, I wasn’t very consistent, but at about 7 months I started to be more and more consistent. Now she could sit by herself so I would sit her on the potty sometimes not just hold it between my knees. She started to associate the feeling of sitting on the potty with release and I would clap. At eight months just before last Christmas, she spent two whole days without diapers. She TOLD ME by saying “mama” or clapping (as I had done when she peed on the potty) when she needed to go. It was often, about every 40 minutes, and even more right after nursing. Well we put her back in diapers then because we were taking a 13 hour drive to visit the grandparents for Christmas. I tried to be consistent at the grandparent’s. But I was miserably inconsistent. When we came back she wasn’t even telling me she had to go. Boy was that disappointing.
I was thinking I would take the diapers away and really get back into it in a week or so, but then I lost my milk, and discovered I was pregnant, and not one week later I was sick all day with morning sickness. So she went back into diapers. I took her when I could. She still made many poopies and pee pees on the potty. But she wasn’t telling me anymore. I was in no condition to try to help her out with a new signal.
Today, and yesterday I have been feeling well, FINALLY. I spent eight weeks sick. We have been using the potty a bit. And in a week or so I plan to take those diapers away. She’s cruising now. My hope is that it will come right back to her and she will leave the diapers behind in four weeks or less, by her 1st birthday. We will see and I will keep you posted, but I feel quite confident it can be done!
I hope this is an encouragement to some of you. Potty training is work, just as any other part of life. But it doesn’t have to be frustrating and it doesn’t have to wait until your child shows “signs of readiness” or is at least 24 months old. My doctor was shocked at my son’s 18 month check when he was in UNDERPANTS! She will be even more shocked when my daughter comes in in panties at her 12 month check. You can do it too! I love to answer questions, so feel free to leave a note or to PM me.
God Bless,
I’ve heard of the nogreaterjoy folks having success doing this, but you’re the first mom I’ve ever heard tell about starting at two weeks! This was an amazing story…I know I wouldn’t have the fortitude to keep with it consistently! The messes especially…even though we have wood floors and linoleum, no carpet.
I am glad all mine are potty-trained, it is one of those milestones a mom is glad to have in the past!
That said, this was very fascinating…I’m sure your dd will pick it right back up from the sounds of it! And you’re going to save so much $$!
Mary,
There aren’t that many messes. I kept her in a diaper and just kinda guessed and went by the clock and routine as to when she might need to go. For sometime I started to see signs that she would make, like a certain look. But as I was inconsistent these disappeared.
It is now when we have accidents. But there aren’t that many, and honestly, if it bothers me so much to have it on my floor, WHY would I want it pressed against my baby’s skin?? (After seriously thinking about what a diaper DOES, I just can’t really feel comfortable leaving her in them. EW.)
Meg
Well I feel better about things. My son is 12months.. going on 13 months and he follows me everywhere so last week we bought him a potty. He goes everytime after he wakes up in the mornings and from his nap. I take his diaper off at home.. and yes it’s hard to be consistent, but he usually goes every 30-40mins. Well he does great at home, but the daycare he’s in isn’t helping. His teacher seems to think he’s not ready and not showing signs. I think he’s doing an awesome job and she’s just too lazy and doesn’t want to be bothered. I’ve never in my life heard of waiting til a kid is 2 or 3. I think it’s ridiculous. Anyways, I make a REALLY big deal about it when he pee pees and when he doesn’t .. well i don’t. I just say uh oh no pee pee and we try again in a few minutes. But anyways, I’m glad i’m not the only one that thinks diapers are gross! Thanks!
I love your site, and your story is encouraging. What an achievement and blessing to have potty trained early. I crossed your site online when researching this very topic. My daughter is 15 months and I was wondering if I could potty train early. I’m a first time mom and everything is new to me, and I don’t know much about this or heck how to potty train at all, but with your descriptions you educated me, so many thanks. My daughter uses disposable diapers, Huggies to be exact. When I change her and the new diaper is on before I can even get her pants back on she quickly pulls the tab to undo it. “No No ” I say. And I put her pants on. Her pj’s are mostly pants tops, footed pj’s or gowns, She has always worn gowns 1-2 times a week, until last night now we take diaper off and can’t wear gowns anymore.
I know of 4 diffrent occassions where she has pooped and I’m convinced it’s immediate that she knows it and removes diaper. Cause I must not catch it quick enough before the diaper is off and poop is everywhere. LOL! There have been several occassions where she has removed both her pants and diapers, these are however pants without zippers or buttons. I never seem to see her do it, I always catch her immediatly following the act.
Today, I caught her (wearing pants)pulling her diaper at top and had gotten one side done. So with that said, do you think this is just a baby girl that discovered how diapers work after all mommy is always changing me since i was born, or is this a baby girl with a good sence of what’s going on and is ready for the big step of being potty trained?
I really enjoyed your experience. I have a 15 moth old who just started to walk, and I wanted some tips on training her.-thanks alot
Deborah,
(and other ladies!) Thanks for coming by and reading my post! I haven’t had any activity on it for a long time, so I hadn’t even been checking lately!
Regarding the daughter who takes off her pants and diaper… You can determine if she knows to take it off when she went potty or not simply by keeping her very close to you and watching her. I have heard this called “Tomato Staking”, and it is used for all kinds of things, like potty training and manners training and obedience too!
Just keep your daughter occupied at your feet, and keep an eye on her, when she starts to tug at the pants, say something like “Potty Time??” or whatever you are comfortable with. Take her to the potty. See if she goes or is already wet/soiled. This will increase her connection with potty and “that feeling” she gets.
My daughter pulls or touches her diaper both before and after she has to go. My son, he really moved so quickly out of the training part that I do not remember if he ever had some signal. (Since our lives have recently been very hectic with renovations and moving and about to have a new baby.) My daughter has not really had the stability of a routine like my son did. I think this has delayed her potty training. For now I have put it down, because I am TOO BIG (ready to deliver anyday) to keep up with it. I will start again in a couple weeks and hopefully she will wind it all up and finish completely.
If you are able to be consistent, that will dramatically reduce your daughters learning curve. I would place my bet on your daughter having a keen sense of needing to use the potty or of having just done so… not on her copying mommy.
Good luck to you!
Mrs. Meg Logan
Deborah,
Two weeks!!!! LOL (in an exciting way)! I thought I was the only one who felt as though something else could be done instead of spending $$$$ on ebooks, dolls, ect. I’m a first time PTM (potty-training mom).My sons are 12 months and 6 months. Thanks for your inspiration. I didn’t think or know to put them in cloth undies..thanks again.
Thank you so much for writing this, It gave me so much inspiration. I have a 12 M.O son and I was getting sick of changing diapers so I decided to buy him a potty. He LOVES IT. And now that we have it I put him on it to see if he eill go. He has gone 3 or 4 times now and he is so good while using it sometimes he will sit on it and look at books for 30 min! When he goes I show it to him and say you went pee pee in your potty! And we also do the potty dance. Obviously theres so much I still need to know so are there any infant potty training books that you recommend?
Maureen…
Congrats on taking the step to train!!
Yipee that he tries the potty!
I have now done this TWICE. My second child is daytime potty trained (taking herself to the potty without help and no accidents) and she is 20 months old.
You can get a book called “Early Start Potty Training” or “Infant Potty Training” the second one is by Laurie Boukle.
There are also Yahoo! groups for support. Or feel free to post a message again (if you come back) and I will try to answer any questions you have in a new post.
Mrs. Meg Logan
I have a 16 month old and would like to start potty training him now but I also work full time and during the day he stays with grandma who might not be as patient as I am. Any suggestions?
Your blog by the way is very inspiring and very helpful. Thanks!!!
Melody,
First thing I would do is talk to Granma… Ask her when she trained her kids, and get the story on how she did it. Let that conversation sit a few days, then decide a course of action.
I have never worked, and therefore have not tried to potty train a child part time. However, If you take away diapers at night when he is with you, and start introducing the potty, I imagine that he will be eager to play along.
I would think that part time training will take longer… Because all day long he is using a diaper. But if you can get him to be mostly predictable at home and using a sign of some sort, then you can send him to Grandma’s with instructions to help him to the potty when he makes a sign.
Bottom line, you’re gonna need Grandma on the same page as you… Best of luck to you, I know this answer wasn’t super helpful… but I just don’t have enough info to give better advice.
Mrs. Meg Logan
I loved your site. My son is 11 months and people think that you are crazy and that he is not ready but I think that is doing great. We are on day four of training and he is only having a few accidents a day. I think we just need to give it some more tim and he will have it done. He signals when he has to go most of the time. But kids that are 3 and 4 still have the same struggles that he is having at 12 months and he is so proud of himself when he goes. Thanks for not making me feel like a crazy mom like a lot of other people and websites out there.
I am currently trying to potty train my 3 year old son. At 2.5, I started working on it with him and was having some success. But then he got diarhea, so I stoped and didn’t pick it up until his 3rd bday. Now, I’m having a heck of a time. He actually tells me that he wants his diaper on. When I put underpants on him, he will hold it and hold it forever without an accident but refuses to go in the potty. I’m afraid that he might hurt himself by holding in his pee – literally all day. Any thoughts?
Emily,
I am amazed that you have a three year old with such tenacity as to hold back pee for a whole day!
Why does he refuse the potty? Is he afraid? Is he simply being defiant?
Without knowing which it is, I hesitate to give advice. However, here are a couple suggestions:
1. Load that boy up with drinks all morning long, and keep him in the underpants. Present the potty every hour, and make him sit even if he won’t go. At naptime (presuming you still have one) put the boy in pull ups and lay him in bed. Likely if he has not gone yet he WILL go in the pull up. If he goes in the pull up before he sleeps, refuse to change him. (I’d warn him first that this is the plan by saying something like “now Johnny, here is the potty, make your pee pees. If you do not make your pee pees in the potty and put them in the pull up instead, Mommy is not going to change you until after nap. Then you will have to sleep wet, and that will not be nice. *make nasty face*” After nap, put the under pants back on, and keep the water and juice flowing, and keep presenting the potty. (pee is sterile, and while being wet too long CAN cause a rash, I don’t think a naptime is enough to do so, especially if after that he is in cotton undies)
Idea 2. Offer some kind of reward or deterrent. Or both. With my second child I used skittles (for going) and a swat (for “accidents”) when she had been using the potty for months, but was too “lazy” to commit to it.
Idea 3. Put a diaper on the potty and have him stand and aim. The silliness of this might just get him over the fear of peeing into the air (if that is the problem).
Idea 4. (find out first if holding pee all day can hurt him if it only goes on for a couple days.) Then if not, take the diapers away for a couple days, even at night (yup this means LAUNDRY… blah!) But sooner or later the boy is gonna HAFTA pee. This will work in both cases, whether he is defiant, or afraid, because it is a foolish and nonsensical fear, which will be overcome as soon as he just DOES it, or if he is defiant, then you win anyway, because YOU control the diaper, and he will eventually give up. I have heard this kind of discipline referred to as “outlasting”.
Hope these ideas might help. Please post back and tell me if anything worked.
Mrs.MegLogan
My name is Rayme,
and I was researching a way to train my 13 month old baby girl. I came across your story and hope you can help me or give me tips on this issue.
At 12 months I have been sitting my daughter on the potty once or twice a week but not very consistantly. In the morning is the best time and she will pea or poop after about a 30 or 45 minute wait but since she doesn’t talk yet I don’t know when she actually goes. She sits patiently and watches Sesame Street while I do chores but since she is not talking yet what is my solution?
I am very eager to get her out of pampers because I just found out that I am 14 weeks pregnant again with a new baby due in December and I feel like I am running out of time. I don’t want to wait ti’ll her 2nd birthday because I am not willing to have 2 small children in pampers. Please help me!
Hey Meg!
Loved your story! My son will be a year old next week and he went poopy in the potty this morning for the first time. He stood up, smiled, pointed at it and said “Go get it!” I was so excited and we both clapped. A little while later he walked back to the potty and pointed at it and looked down at this diaper…..I checked it and it was warm…he was peeing
I missed it. Today was the first time we tried it and he seems to already be making a connection. The daycare said that they would try to work with me but his current room doesn’t have a potty…but his next class does and he is switching in August.
You mentioned that you used cloth diapers….which ones? I have been looking and there are sooo many out there! The all-in-ones are pricey but look easy to work with. I have considered trying to find him some underwear, but I’m worried I won’t be able to find any to fit him since the majority of toddlers are 2 to 3 before they start wearing those. Any advice?
Thanks,
1st time mom,
Lilo
hey Rayme, and Lilo, thanks for stopping by!
Check out the front page of my site for a new post on potty training.
Meg
Hi, my daughter is 12 months in 2 and half weeks. I have been putting her on the potty on and off for the last 2 weeks and huraayyy!!!!. She did a poo yesterday in it. If anyone watched me they would think that I got mad. I was so happy. Then, after her afternoon nap she did a wee wee in the potty too. This morning, when I woke her up, I sat her on the potty and out came some wee.
Poo after breakfast and another wee before we set off to the childminder.
My childminder was shocked that I have started potty training her at the age of 11 months and thinks I am mad. She promised to put Sophie on the potty to keep it going though. When I picked her up after lunch and asked how it went I was told that Sophie decided to do a poo in the middle of eating lunch so we missed on that one.
Oh well, It won’t happen over night. I am just so excited that there is a chance she could be out of her nappies soooooooon. I am not sure what to do when we are out and about as I am scared people will look at me as the “mad” woman who is forcing her child on the potty…..
Thanks so much for your tips. People tend to look at me crazy when I decided to potty train my 12 month old but your blog was all the inspiration I needed. 2 days into it and she did her poop in the potty today. I think I danced like a mad woman and she found it very amusing. The first couple of days was getting her used to sitting on the potty and feeling comfortable. Today we took in a new book and it kept her attention while she pooped and when I showed her, she smiled. I know it will take some time just knowing that there are other moms out there just like me makes me feel much more inspired…thanks!
First time Mom
Hi
First time potty training…first time mom…my daughter is 12 months she did really good for the firt two days then we spent all of thanks giving at my moms for dinner and helping cook and she has completly rebeled. I stayed consistant even durring the holiday but she was forced to leave the other kids…and wasnt keen on this.
help
shely
Shelley,
Just get right back into it and be firm. It is not a choice for her to make, she is too little to make a choice LOL…
I am now training baby #3, we started at 13m (so I could use cloth and have a washing machine). She has been using the potty without more than one daily accident for a week. But I take her, she does not yet tell me when she needs to go. She DOES hold it back some though.
Keep on keeping on!
Mrs.MegLogan
Hi, we are still at it. Some days are better than other. I watch her like a hawk. She knows now what the potty’s for and I must say she started doing this thing….. she will reach for the potty which is under the armchair in our living room and sort of plays with it. It happens quite often and then I find out she has done something in her nappy. I thought she is just playing with the potty which I don’t want her to do BUT could it be that she actually knows she is about to do a poo or wee?
Also, I still keep her nappy on all the time, do you think that’s wrong? Should I leave her run about the house without it? But it’s winter and she doesn’t always go on the potty……
Any advice?
Hi there!
I read your story and I find it to be wonderful. My husband and I were born in the former Soviet Union and our parents had us potty trained at 12-13 months. So to us, having older kids running around in underwear just seemed crazy. And then we had our daughter.. We both work and the nanny who watched her was not thrilled about potty training, even though she herself potty trained her kids at 12 months as well. She said she tried, but it just didn’t work. I guess she didn’t try hard enough and we didn’t push it. But now we have our second daughter who is almost 9 months. With her, we want to start potty training a lot earlier. And this time we will not even give the nanny a choice. We’ll take away the diapers during the day. But I do have a question for you. When we put her on the potty, how long do we let her sit on it? Would you allow for any toys while sitting on the potty? When the nanny tried with our older daughter, she’d let her hold toys, which I totally hated because I thought it took attention away from the process.. Your answers are greatly appreciated!
ok, I have questions. I need advice. I wanted to start the EC thing at birth with my son. I started him at 3 weeks, but he had such bad reflux and stomach issues that he was misserable anytime I tried to set him on the potty. So we gave up until his reflux subsided at about 7 months. I tried a few more times but he would never go on the potty. I was very inconsistant. Now he’s 10 months old. He’s crawling and cruising and has no more stomach issues. I really want to start potty training again because my goal is to have him completely out of diapers before he’s two years old (which is the time I plan to have my second child). Here are my questions. At 10 months old do you keep him on the potty until he goes? Or do you just set him on there for a few minutes at a time to give him the chance to go. I make the “psss” noise for him but it doesn’t have an effect. I was able to “catch” a few pees and poops back when he was a couple months old, but I haven’t caught one now that he’s older. I let him go without a diaper quite frequently and he rarely pees on the floor. I think he sometimes waits for me to put the diaper on before he goes, which is something I don’t want. I mostly want to know how long you keep him on a potty. I don’t want him sitting there for 10 or fifteen minutes if he doesn’t have to go. Also my son is horrible at giving me cues that he has to go, I was never able to tell with him except that he would grunt before pooping, but he doesn’t even do that anymore. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you so much for the advice!!! I just started today!!!! He went 3 times already!!! I feel good about it but your right…it is hard work!!!!!!! Your son sounds just like my son! The defiance thing….so funny!
Thanks again!!!!!
Hi Meg! Thank you so much for your blog, its really inspirational and educational. I have 11 months old daughter, and i’m expecting baby#2 in less then 3 months. Before having children i was always saying that i will potty train my kids early. Now i’m trying to stick to my words and get my daughter potty trained before my new baby arrives. Its perfect timing for me, because its summer, i’m a stay at home mom, my MIL and the rest of the family are very supportive and helpful too. So all i needed is some inspiration and mechanics of how to do it. I’ve been able to catch my daughter pee and poop on the potty multiple times, and she is wearing training undies when we are at home,but i don’t really see whether she is realizing that she did something or not.I do the ‘psss’ sound for her when she does it, try to explain to her when she wets herself, but so far nothing. Its been 6 days so far that i’m working on it very seriously, so i’m hoping its just a matter of time.
How is baby#4 doing? I hope you are still serious about your book. I would love to contribute to it, i hope i’ll have good stories for you. Thanks for everything. Olga
Meg, my daughter will be a year old next month on the eight. She is extremley advanced for her age. She started cruising at 8 months and walking at 10 months. She is now running. She leats with a fork and literally thinks she is my age.
Latley she has been hiding in the corner or in her room, and squatting down and pooping in her diaper. Then she wants to try to take her diaper off. I feel like she is ready to start potty training. What do you think? Your story is awsome. Thanks
Dina,
I hope all is going well in your house. I have been away from the blog for a long time. It wasn’t working for a while… then I was just busy what with four kiddos. Anyway, even though you are prolly already done and not going to come back here, this is my answer for anyone else who might have the same question.
I do not think a child needs to sit on the potty for a long time at all, five minutes tops. It is not in how long they sit, but in knowing when they have to go (at first) so that you can predict and “catch” their elimination. This starts a habit, much like operative conditioning. Over some more time you start to associate the potty with the going and then you can “cause” your child to go, just by sitting them on the pot at an opportune time.
Mrs.MegLogan
Grace, Sorry it has taken me so long to reply.
If you are still working on this, and if you get this note… here’s my answer:
A child should not be made to sit on the potty for long periods of time, five minutes tops. It sounds like in your case you have trained him to use the diaper, so my best advice is to take them away for a while. SO he can relearn those sensations without being covered. This will also enable YOU to learn his rhythms, so that you can start catching his pee again…
Mrs.MegLogan
Olga,
Baby four is now 6 months old. Baby 3 is totally day time potty trained, she finished at 18 or 19 months. She is almost night trained, but we shall see….
I do hope to write a book, I hope that I can get more time soon to work on more pages for it… I do hope you will come back and record your stories here so I can use them!!
Mrs.MegLogan
She is definitely READY, even though I don’t typically wait till they are “Ready”, I just teach them to progress to this without waiting for signs of readiness.
Your daughter should be a breeze; unless she has a real stubborn streak with that intelligence! Just catch her when she is running to squat, and get a small potty seat for the floor. (Baby Bjorn makes a great one) The small floor model will be very helpful for your daughter because she can squat to use it.
Mrs.MegLogan
Hello everybody,
here I am again. My little girl is 2 next week already! We finally cracked the potty about 2 months ago. She says if she wants to go, even though she calls “it” all wee wee regardless what is to come out. She is very excited when it is a poo. It’s like a mini surprise to her when it it a poo. Bless…
We have no eliminated the nappy during her afternoon nap as well. She does have the occasional accident during the day about twice a week. The other day we went for a short walk around the village, we did a wee before going out to make sure we had at least half an hour of no worries BUT, on our walk about 20 minutes down the road she spotted a little fountain in someones garden and as she watched the water she weeed herself. I guess there will be these occasional accidents for a little longer, when she is excited or tired or (this is from an experience also) when she is having a tantrum and just forgets. I am so proud of her. All my friends have managed to potty train around 2.5 – 3.5 years so I am the winner!!!! Yeeehaaaa.
Good luck ladies – and remember – it will happen one day. DOn’t be crossed with them if they don’t make it to the potty or are still learning. There is so much the little people have to learn…
Hello everybody,
here I am again. My little girl is 2 next week already! We finally cracked the potty about 2 months ago. She says if she wants to go, even though she calls “it” all wee wee regardless what is to come out. She is very excited when it is a poo. It’s like a mini surprise to her when it is a poo. Bless…
We have now eliminated the nappy during her afternoon nap as well. She does have the occasional accident during the day about twice a week. The other day we went for a short walk around the village, we did a wee before going out to make sure we had at least half an hour of no worries BUT, on our walk about 20 minutes down the road she spotted a little fountain in someones garden and as she watched the water she weeed herself. I guess there will be these occasional accidents for a little longer, when she is excited or tired or (this is from an experience also) when she is having a tantrum and just forgets. I am so proud of her. All my friends have managed to potty train around 2.5 – 3.5 years so I am the winner!!!! Yeeehaaaa.
Good luck ladies – and remember – it will happen one day. DOn’t be crossed with them if they don’t make it to the potty or are still learning. There is so much the little people have to learn…