my dd at 11 months and i wanna get her started on a potty???

[shazzaronnie]

my dd is 11 months and i want to get her on a potty but not sure the best way to do this any tips would be helpful

At 11 months Why?

I guess it can be done, but most people leave it a bit longer shazza - possibly because trying to train a 11 month old could, potentially, take 6 months or more. I am starting my ds this summer and he is almost 2 and a half. My only advice is make sure that you think your dd is ready for this or you could be making more probs for yourself...[smile}

cos i keep bein told i should start?

who is telling you to start potty training?

who tells you this though?

Who's giving you that advice?

It's bolleaux frankly.

Can the poor little mite even walk yet?!

Too early.

If your dd is ready (old enough to understand what is happening) she could learn to use a potty very quickly (I have a friend whose 2 and half year old learned in a week). If she is too young, you could spend hours of every day dragging her to the potty, cleaning up urine (and poo!) for MONTHS!!!

before 2 is too early imo

both mine were about 2.6yrs

cracked it in around a week, few days of mopping up 'accidents'

insane to try earlier

surely too young!

Who keeps telling you you should start because nobody knows better than you and your dd.

It used to be normal to train them from 10 months, Shaz - probably because when no-one had washing machines and disposables weren't great, washing nappies was a major hassle.
Hardly anyone does it that early now though.

also arguably they weren't really trained, it was more that the parent learnt to recognise the signals and got them on the potty in time.

I know that in the past (over 30 years ago) they suggested doing it earlier - but it did take the average Mum MUCH MUCH longer. I think that the consensus these days is that waiting til a child understands what is happening and can consistently remember what to do, is better for the child and for the parent because it is less of a long drawn out battle!

Agree with Oliveoil that around 2 is the absolute earliest I would every consider.

Glad this thread has come up.
A mum was telling me today her ds is 17 months and she'd started potty training and why hadn't I (dd is 15 months)?
I I felt like a freak for wanting to wait till dd was a bit older.
Glad I'm not

Thanks again MN!!

Wait until your dd tells you she is ready. I know one of my friends had her child pottytrained when she was about 1, but she seemed ready, and it she was pottytrained within 2 weeks. It depends on the child. Some are ready when they are 1 some not until they are 4.

my dd is 22m and i still havent started her, she is just starting to show that she wants to and have sort of introduced the potty, all i did was buy the pot and leave it around so it wasnt a new object. I think 11m is far to early as she wont have developed any physical control over her functions yet.

My DD is 9 months. For the past 4 weeks I have started each day by sitting her on the potty while I brush by teeth etc. It happens that this conincides with the time she is most likely to poo. When she happens to poo or pee I leavish her with praise. If she doesn't I don't do anything. For the rest of the day she is in nappies as usual. Over 4 weeks she has already started pooing more and more at potty time. Its like she associates it with pooing and praise. I will not push her beyond this until she seems ready but hopefully it will be a good basis for alter training.

I got the idea from my Mum. We lived abroad, with no access to nappies, when I was a baby. As soon as I could dit Mum started doing this and reckons I took it from there myself. My 18months I would toddle over to potty when i needed it. She never had to "train" me. I am not sure if it will work so well with DD but thought it worth a try!

Not sure what happened to my spelling and typing then . Sorry.

What a load of old tosh

Im like you Artichoke, I heard theres a "window" between 8-12 months. I basically just put her on the potty when she wakes up and Im trying to get her to associate it with peeing. You only need to read the problems that people have with potty training older children, to know that we arent completely insane for wanting to start early.
I donT know if itll work or not, but its worth a try, and I do want to have no.2 at some point, and I`d prefer DD to be trained before then.

11 months?

9 months?

but WHY? WHY?

Look if you're that bothered just take off the nappy when they are in the house. Thats the best way to learn, IMO.

But toilet training is as much physiological readiness as anything else. Its down to bowel/bladder readiness.

I started when dd was just under 2 1/2 and she was trained in a few days with just a couple of accidents in the first 2 days. She was also out of night nappies a month after her 3rd birthday. If you wait till your lo is ready they can be trained very quickly with few accidents. I couldnt be bothered with the hassle of starting any earlier.

Why? Lots of stress and mess.

you don't have to do things just because people have told you they think you should, you know

what are your reasons for thinking it is a good idea?

I think 11 months is too early, saying that I don't think I'll wait till 2 either. Early potty training is conditioning - later potty training ensures the child understands the whys and the wherefores. I think I'm deluding myself I'll find that somewhere in-between.