Dilemma! DD ready for potty training but I am due to give birth any day!

[Hillbilly]

My dd is 2.3yrs and I had hoped to potty train her in the summer as 2nd child due this month. She was clearly not ready so I decided to leave it until well after the new baby came along as all the advice seems to point to not making changes around the time of a new baby. Plus the fact that I will not be able to focus on her potty training with a new baby.

However she is now really showing signs of readiness. Although she is happy in her nappy she also chooses to wee in the potty whenever she is not in a nappy eg. before bath time or if she is just having a run around without it.

When I do potty train her I would like to move straight to pants for daytimes rather than chop and change with pants and nappies.

I am inclined to wait for about a month after the birth and then do it, but I do not know if this is the right thing to do.

Totally confused - does anyone have any advice?

If she is totally ready for potty training, and it sounds like she is, then potty training her can be very quick - my dd1 was dry after one day because it was at the exact right point.

There's no harm in trying.

I would wait if you (understandably) feel it would be easier to do so. If she is happy to stay in her nappy, go with that. She may, howver start ripping her nappy off and forcing the issue herself - that what my ds2 did! Potty training can actually go very smoothly if they are keen. She might end up wanting nappies on again anyway when baby arrives. Sorry that all sounds a bit waffly - my advice - wait! and good luck with the new arrival.

I was in a similar situation last year. My advice is to keep doing what you're doing, and keep encouraging her use of the potty, etc, but wait until things have settled down before taking the plunge. I waited until the new baby was about 3 months old.

lol I guess the choice is a football sized bump wedged in your stomach or huge leaky norks

I don't think there is a good time for you tbh

2.3 is still quite young though. If I were you I wouldn't give yourself any unnecessary pressure at this time and I'd leave it for a few months. Let her use the potty as and when she wants (like you say, before bath time etc) - but do the real potty training, straight to no nappies in day time, in a few months time and like belgo said, she will probably be so ready by then that it will take no time at all.

It's so hard to know if she is really ready right now - She still does not tell me when she has done a poo and she has never done a poo in the potty.

I am just worried that if I start her with pants now and she gets the hang of it, once the baby is born she may well go right back to wanting nappies as I hear that many children regress around this time

Anyway, thanks for all your advice!

In a months time, with a new baby, you'll have a lot LESS time to focus on potty training. If she's showing signs she's ready, why not try it now - if it works, fantastic. If you can't face it, make sure you do it before baby is mobile - potties and a mobile baby don't mix