Potty training at 16 months ?

[mellie]

my 2nd daughter is 16 months and has been using the potty for the last couple of months. MOstly she's been going after meals if I take her nappy off and before or after the bath. She's now starting to find and use the potty on her own when she has no nappy on or bring the potty to me. Whats the best way to go about training this early? should I wait or just go for it?

Mellie- can't help with the potty training I'm afraid, but don't refresh your page when you've just posted!! Leave that page and come back to it, or you will keep posting multiple identical messages!

You could just buy some knickers and go for it cold turkey and see what happens.

Go for it Mellie! Very early but she's obviously ready, if you can cope with the soggy carpets why not let her try? I don't see why training a baby should be any different to training a toddler, I suppose the risk of relapse might be bigger but so what? I would be careful to go at her pace without pushing/rushing her.

Good luck, maybe she's heading for the Guinness Book of Records.

Mellie, go for it. I was all for potty training my dd very early, it started to go really well when she was about 14 months but then I started to feel really crap because I was expecting ds and unfortunately I let things slip and I didn't keep it going. Best of luck with it. Don't be put off by anyone saying it can't be done. I can recommend a book called "Potty Training Your Baby" by Katie Van Pelt which gives guidance on how to train babies/toddlers when they are younger.

Mellie, my DD was exactly the same but i delayed until at 18m the nursery asked me to bring her in in pants. We never looked back, sure there was the odd accident but to be fair these were mostly due to disorganised parents than DD! Between the 16m and 18m we let her take her nappy off when she came home until she went to bed. We had a potty in the sitting room and the kitchen so we wouldn't be caught out.

If nursery hadn't asked I probably would have delayed as I was looking for the "signs" people bang on about and TBH they weren't that obvious. Oddly enough she never wore a nappy for her daytime nap from 18m and was dry at night 6 weeks after being dry in the day (drunken mummy forgot to put nappy on at bedtime!). A friend did the GF potty training thing where you stay at home for a week and after 3 days her 18m old was dry.

Have to say thay for the first week I was paranoid and took a potty with us for the 30min walk into town (as well as 3 changes of clothes) and made a point of taking het to the loo in places like M&S and Gap which have clean toilets!
I got over it!

good to hear it is possible without too much stress. the main difficulty i forsee is not knowing that she's asking for the potty as her words for poo & wee aren't good. sometimes she just pulls at her clothes adn sometimes brings me the potty. but sometimes i don't notice anything or just an odd look from her! i think i will just have to try adn be extra vigilant and hope the words come soon