To ask when did you potty train? And…

[Ppehl]

how do you do it if you work full time and child is in nursery full time?

I haven't potty trained yet but we are planning to potty train in a few weeks when dd is 23 months.

Dd nursery is open term time only so I take off 3 weeks anyway. I'll be training her during the last week before she goes back to nursery. If I don't do it then, I won't be able to do it for ages afterwards.

I think if you can't take work off then you should do it over a weekend, preferably a bank holiday weekend and perhaps take off Friday too and then they should be ok to go back to nursery with most of the potty training already done.

I'm currently reading the oh crap potty training book and she goes through the best ways to get it done if you're working.

About two and a half. My son wasn’t in nursery at that time. My husband and I took a week off work between us. It didn’t take as long as a week though.

By taking annual leave.

We trained at 2yrs 4 mos using Oh Crap. Highly recommend.

You need to properly commit though, to no daytime nappies, and you need to have a few days off so you can literally watch them like a hawk for the first couple to learn their potty cues.

We did it at 29 months, took a couple of days off work so we had a few days at home. Nursery were luckily very supportive too.

DS was 3 months off being 3 when he decided he was ready. I was working and he was in nursery part time. We started in Xmas holiday with a 20 minute timer and a chocolate button every time he went for a wee on the potty. Once he got the hang of going on the potty we made the timer every 30 then every 40 minutes (over a couple of days) and then started bringing in the potty training pants. At the time we lived a 10 minute walk from my parents so if he made it to their house dry he'd get a button etc.

He was really successful and we barely had any accidents at all. It got a bit trickier when he went back to nursery and the distraction was more of an issue but it resolved quickly. He'd see others go to the toilet and took himself off with them. I packed 3 or 4 changes of bottoms and pants for him and within a week he was absolutely fine there as well. Odd accident here and there but otherwise fine.

Speak to nursery and see what they suggest. It's very likely they'll have strategies they find work that they're more than happy to pass on to you. Good luck! And don't give up - my mum was very keen that once we ditched the nappies it had to be for good otherwise it makes it harder it the long run because they know if they wet often enough the nappies will come back

At 2y3months.
Potty trained Friday to Sunday, nursery the following week with maybe 1 accident a couple of the days and then rarely from then on.
Imo potty “training” involves a few days of a short, sharp shock and they largely get it, however it’s then a gradual process over the next few months to make sure they fully understand their bodies signals, don’t get distracted while playing, can learn to hold it for a reasonable time when they can’t immediately access the toilet etc.

I was going to wait a few months until I was off on mat leave but nursery felt they were ready before so we tried it on their advice!

2 and half-ish for both boys, one managed it fine, the other very tricky. Both of us work PT and have Fri to Tues when someone is at home. But it took longer than that to get for them to get it. We sent them to childcare anyway as their childminder was happy to support us in the days they were there.

My partner and I took a week annual leave between us. We then used the oh crap technique of no pants and having a potty in various places around the house. On day 5 we thought that our little one would never get it (they were just 3). On day 6 something clicked and with only the odd accident it has been great.

I fully recommend getting a potty similar to a My Carry Potty. It meant that from day 6 we could leave the house!

First child 2 years 2 months, second child 2 years 4 months, third child day and night at the same time at 2 years 6 months.

I was a SAHM, which made it easier. Just based ourselves at home for a week and got on with it. All had shown signs of being ready - I found DS1 trying to perch on the loo with his nappy off - so we went for it. If I'd been working I'd have taken a week off and stayed at home.

It took DS1 and DS2 about a week before I could take them out and about without a nappy on and in pants, and DS3 about 3 days.

Potty trained both of ours around 2 and 3 quarters! DS took a few days and lots of wet pants, was dry overnight about 6mths later.
DD took literally 2 days and was dry day and night, think they both had a couple of accidents in nursery just in the first week.
We didn't do any bribes/rewards/charts (but absolutely would have if needed, we just weren't organised enough to do it!). Just decided on a day and no more nappies.
Never used a carry potty, just used every toilet we ever passed! Lol. I personally really wouldn't have wanted to use one and thankfully never needed to.

@DramaAlpaca how do you do it if you work full time and child is in nursery full time?
”I was a SAHM”

Helpful!

DS was 3y 1 month, DD 2 months away from being 3.

For both nursery agreed that they were ready and would support if we started. Both only had 3 days at home to start (Sat/Sun/Mon on a bank holiday)

With DS I do feel that nursery did the leg work on potty training during that first full week: DD declared to nursery on the fourth day of potty training that she was a big girl and wears knickers now and that was basically it!

Take a Friday off and do it on a bank holiday so you have four clear days.

We tried once at 22/23 months (fail)
Again at 25 months - got it in 2 days. Poo took longer but it was a fear of the potty rather than accidents

2 1/2, planned with the nursery - they had a system where they tried to get kids who were all potty training to start at the same time so they could be a ‘team’. Basically we all started on the Saturday of a bank holiday weekend, had 3 days at home to get over the worst of it then sent them to nursery with a massive bag of spare underwear and clothes! Nursery then ran a toilet timetable for the ‘team’ with sticker charts etc.
It was brilliant and DC was dry 7am -7pm after a week (nights took a lot longer!)
Might be worth a chat with the nursery to see how to work together?

We potty trained our twins together at 2.5yrs. We both work full time and the twins were at nursery 4 days a week. We started on the Saturday morning, prepared to take days of the next week off depending on how it went. They were both reliably trained within 4 days. We used the Oh Crap Method.

I tried at 2 and a half but she just was not ready, she wasn’t taking it in and not bothered about wetting herself so we waited until she just turned three and within a week she got it. We did it by making a big deal about how cool her new potty was , took off her below half at home ( warm weather helped) and said every time she needs the loo to do it on the potty and she would get a sticker. We ran out of stickers pretty quick and she got wise to it and would go sit on the potty even when she didn’t need it 😂. Sometimes she’s had accidents and I just go back to this basic training again for a day or two and it works.

18months to 24months. With my first we started on holiday. But used the potty a lot before. Just took the nappy option off the table one day. Childminder was very supportive and same with nursery with the other children. My second daughter just decided one day she didn't want nappies, it was done in one day. I can't remember how it went with my son, same age bracket as the girls. Also in nursery. Didn't have any issue. I think you just have to go for it when you feel the child is ready. Using the potty before (from 6months onwards) but without pressure helped us.

23 months for both.

I did it when off work for holiday for 2 weeks. That meant over christmas for DS, and in summer holiday for DD.

Did lots of prep beforehand. Bare bottom time in evenings and mornings, having a potty in the house from 18m and encouraging sitting on it before bath, after breakfast etc so the concept was familiar. Lots of talking about toilet stuff so they knew the words "wee" "poo" and "loo". Making sure they saw me & DH using the loo, both sitting and standing for DH.

Oh and childminder was v happy about this. She had kids who were 3.5 and parents weren't bothering and she was left changing shitty bums of huge preschoolers. She was eastern european and asked me at 18m when i was starting she was great.

19 months for DD and 21 months for DS using the oh crap method. I did it when I had a clear week off work both times and it was spring time so could be out in the garden.

I had let them have a lot of bare bum time before this though so they’d already made the connection that they were peeing and we cloth nappied which helped too as it meant they could feel the wetness. They were also quite familiar with the toilet and I’d begun to get them to sit on the potty before a bath etc just as part of our routine.

I took Thursday and Friday off work, read “oh crap potty training” and basically nailed it in a weekend. Son was just over 2 and a half.

We just started this week. Ds is 2.5 and in nursery full time. We actually started sat afternoon and Sunday and then nursery do their bit you just give them A LOT of clothes and crocs so they wash easily.

Tried the weekend she turned 2. Didn’t seem to be clicking so we left it a few months as we were off on holiday and I didn’t want to stress about accidents when travelling. We may have struck lucky, I sat her on the potty one night as I ran her bath and she did a wee. She just seemed to twig from there so on the next couple of days (weekend), I kept asking if she needed the potty and it just seemed to be fine. I worked 4 days a week so on the Monday she did have an accident when we were out and it was totally my fault for leaving it too long to prompt her.

Nursery just leaned in when I told them. They had other kids training at the tome
so she slotted in with what they did.