Potty training too soon?

[Lala29]

Posted this in potty training as well, but hoping more people will see this here.

Today was day 1 of potty training. DD is very young (22 months), but has been showing all the signs of being ready to be trained. I have been sitting her on the potty after sleeps and before bath for a while (in a no pressure way) and she gets really excited when she does smth on the potty and the last few weeks has been managing to do a wee most of the time. She has also been trying to take nappy off recently and asking for potty.

Today we haven't had a single accident, but neither has she done anything in the potty apart from a few drops (which still got lots of praise). However, her lunchtime nap nappy was very full (I am keeping nappy for nap and night time for now).

Am I starting too soon? Is it normal? I suppose at least it's showing she has bladder control??? Any advice?

Dd is 20.5 months old and has been showing signs (taking off nappy, telling us if she's done or about to do a poo poo), asking for potty etc, but everytime I try taking her nappy off she has accidents. Tbh I'm going to leave it a few more months. I've been told the longer you leave it, the quicker they learn.

That's impressive bladder control! Great going for day 1. Why stop now? I felt that as long as parents and children were happy in the attempt then 2 weeks was a good amount of time for us to see if they were "getting it". At the very least it's nice for them to be nappyless in this hot weather and you won't be forever popping nappies on and off so she can jump in the paddling pool! And it's not like you're having to mop the floors constantly.

I think as long as you aren't expecting instant success and the child's happy then there's no harm in trying young. It depends on your preferences really - is it more bother to deal with nappies, or to clear up the odd accident? There are no prizes for PT-ing early, but equally there are no prizes for children potty training in 1 day with no accidents. Or they're both their own prize in their own way

Thank you, catkind. We've just finished day 4 and still same story, virtually no accidents, but few successes. She's happy to sit in the potty and does sometimes do tiny wees. Does that mean she's not deliberately holding on until she gets the nappy on? Assume if she's doing a tiny wee, she can't be holding on?
I just want to make sure I'm not doing her any damage (physically). Thank you so much!

Well if no-one else is replying I'll have a shot but no expert in things PT, I just like a parenting puzzle. I have tried PT-ing even younger with DD, currently in a holding pattern at 17 months with lots of potty use but nappies as backup.

Hmm. I'm wondering if it might just be her pattern to not pee much then do a big one at nap time. What did she do when she was still in nappies? If you put a nappy on at a different time does she still do a huge pee in it then?
I agree if she's peeing a little bit it doesn't sound like she's deliberately holding. Could it be she hasn't quite got the hang of releasing fully on the potty? If it's that then lots to drink and a few longer potty sessions reading stories or something might help her get the hang of it.

Don't know on the physical damage thing. I think given other cultures routinely train a lot younger than we do in the west it ought to be fine.

I started both mine at 11 months. DD2 'got it' less quickly than DD1 who was fully trained for poos by 18 months and fully trained for wees just after her 2nd birthday. DD2 is 17 months and only does the occasional wee or poo on the potty - but she does know when she needs to poo and that she wants to sit on the potty (she walks over to it and grunts!). In our case it was a long and slow process of introduction to the world of the toilet, rather than a quick one. The old fashioned way.
On the upside we have saved a lot of nappies. On the downside it's pretty time consuming and you spend a lot of time sitting next to them on the potty, reading stories etc.

I think 22 months is not 'very young' for potty training tbh. I think that's a myth dreamed up by Pampers Incorporated to sell more plastic diapers. But that's just me.
(Ask your mum. Bet you were potty trained by 2.)

Kiwi- I recently read a blog post that said the whole idea of a child needing to be 'ready' was made up by the nappy industry. I just trained my dd at 22 months. I had wanted to do EC but found that as a first time mum I couldn't get the hang of it, but we had a potty hanging around the house that we used intermittently. She just started taking her nappy off and using the potty so then I started training.

Thank you so much everyone vim going a bit insane here and have decided to put her back in nappies this afternoon. We seem to have no progress in 6 days and actually she's gotten worse. When she was still in nappies full time, she was doing big wees and poos on the potty (I sit her on it after sleeps and before bath in the evening). She was also asking for it routinely. Now absolutely nothing. She's also been absolutely foul for a week now and eating badly. I don't know if the 2 are connected, or if she's just happened to not be feeling great when I started training.

Also yesterday I had a horrific 45 mins when she literally did not stop weeing and refused to sit down on the potty (I had a few big wees, then just a few dribbles every few mins). I wasn't able to clear up fast enough, she was slipping on the wee and crying. It was a real nightmare.

It's just so weird, as she is showing absolutely all the readiness signs, was asking for potty and taking her nappy off. I think I might try again in a few weeks.

Thank you again for your advice. Feeling like a failure and like I upset and stressed my gorgeous girl for no reason.