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2.3yo DD1 seems to be potty training herself!

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TickledOnion · 24/01/2012 21:36

I realise that I probably shouldn't complain about this, but I am totally unprepared for potty training and DD1 seems to have decided to potty train herself. DD2 was born 6 days ago and we made quite a big deal about how DD1 (2.3 yo) was going to be a big girl and she seems to have taken it to heart.

She has asked to do a few wees in the potty when she's been at her grandparents and tonight she did a poo in the potty before bathtime.
Unfortunately, she then did a poo in the bath as well.

Should I encourage her to keep trying or try to stall her efforts. I really don't have the time or energy to commit to serious potty training. Any advice would be greatly appreciated?

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ThePathanKhansWitch · 24/01/2012 21:41

Get her some pull up pants, and let her get on with it. My dd potty trained off her own back, i'm a great believer in letting them do things in their own time.

She's shown she's ready go with it. Well to her.Grin.

bruffin · 24/01/2012 21:43

My dd did the same at that age. We were delaying training her because she had a skin graft taken from her inner thigh, but she decided she wanted to use the toilet and that was it. If they are ready there are usually very few accidents.

Tiggles · 24/01/2012 22:03

Encourage her. in my experience if you try and put them off it can be very hard to motivate them later on.

mrspepperpotty · 24/01/2012 22:24

I think if she really wants to you should encourage. This happened to me with my DD (2.2yo) when DS2 was a couple of months old, it hadn't been part of my plan at all but she was desperate for big girl pants, so I went with it and she potty trained really quickly and easily.

TickledOnion · 25/01/2012 11:08

Thanks for the advice. I don't want to discourage her, but I don't think I can manage to actively encourage her whilst breastfeeding a newborn.
I think we'll just keep doing what we are doing and let her set the pace.

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