Potty Training - Oh crap method anyone?

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DD is nearly 2 and has been announcing her poos and pulling at wet nappy. Wondering if we can think about potty training yet and where to start! Also planning another baby sometime so would love her to be out if nappies by then!

I picked up the Oh Crap book recently and skimmed the first chapter. Looked interesting but don't want to read the whole thing if others on here think it's rubbish!

Did anyone try this method and is it worth it? DD is at nursery part time so is there a good potty training method that can work around that?

It worked for me with my little girl. However I haven’t done any night training with her.

it took about 2 weeks. I didn’t like the overall tone of the book tbh but the method seemed to work for us

We followed oh crap and worked perfectly. You need a few days at home with them to start it off, we did 4 or 5 at home (saturday-wednesday) then sent her back into nursery.

Whichever method you chose you kind og have to focus 100% on it in the first few days especially. You need to take annual leave to do the first part, then send back into nursery, especially with oh crap as it is bare bums for first few days, and pants only get reintroduced around the 7 days mark

We roughly followed it at 26 months and was successful. We didn't do anything about night dryness, she started having only slightly wet nappies overnight and waking in the night crying to use the potty for about two weeks. Then she seemed to realise peeing in the nappy wasn't uncomfortable like peeing in clothes and she stopped bothering and went back to massive soaking wet nappies. She's nearly 4 and her night nappies are still like that and she has no interest in night dryness but we aren't pushing it either.

@Lazypuppy how did you send her back into nursery on the Thursday please? (Practicalities wise?) I am flexible and could be at home for 5 days but would need to send back to nursery on the 6th day.

I think it's brilliant. Worked for both of mine and for a few of my friends too.

Personally I liked the philosophy of - it's a skill to learn, no chocolate buttons or coaxing needed. Trust in the child and they will do it.

Both of mine trained just under 2 and a half. 1 stubborn boy and one stubborn girl. Took 1 week with the first and 4 days or so with second. Drama free.

@SecondhandTable that sounds interesting. I'm not sure what the "proper" advice is about night dryness, but overnight nappies sound like a good compromise whilst getting her used to day time potty.

Brilliant! I might invest in reading the whole book in that case.

The daytime advice in Oh Crap is fine. The night time stuff is bollocks if I remember rightly, and doesn't account for the fact that night dryness is due to a hormone and you can't train it in.

I found the day time advice worked for one child and not the other. It worked for the one who would happily drink lots of squash if offered and went to the loo a lot. Had that DC trained over a bank holiday weekend and no accidents.

It worked not at all for the second child who could not be bribed with squash and had a bladder of steel. I spent days watching that DC and they just did not wee enough to make the watch and wait work. They eventually just sort of trained themselves.

Worked perfectly for DD1 but not for DD2.

Can I ask some advice? Doing great with nude potty stage 1 with ds 30 months. But as soon as he has his trousers on he forgets. We are day 4 with trousers. Any advice? Anything we should be doing that we are missing? Book is a bit thin on this front?