Should I introduce a Potty?

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I have a 22 month old who I have no intention of potty training for a long while yet.

However, every time he has a bath, I get him undressed, he runs to the bathroom, I put him in the bath and he straight away does a stand up wee and then sits down. I need to put him in the bath quickly otherwise he will start to do a wee on the floor.

As said above, I have no intention of starting formal potty training however could this be an opportunity to sit him on the potty as soon as he runs to the bath so that he can begin the association with wee=potty for this one scenario? I don't want to do anything that may be counterproductive to potty training at a later date so would appreciate any wise words. This is just a thought I have had for now, this is my first child.

Thanks.

This is exactly what we did with both and they were both accident free in less than 24h once we did stop using nappies.

It couldn’t hurt to just pop a potty in the bathroom for that purpose, and maybe every time you change his nappy. He will associate peeing with the potty and this would lead to an easier time with potty training.

You could start now. Between 20-30 months is ideal.

Yes, absolutely, he is at the right age and doing the right thing so just go with it. He already feels that you don't wee in whatever you're wearing. People are too worried about accidents, but nappies are not actually very good for children, or particularly comfortable.

Thank you everyone. My concern with properly starting potty training is that he is still very young and he is delayed in his language development (although is now beginning to catch up) and he hasn't show signs of readiness apart from his penchant for weeing in the bath. He has just started to grab his nappy and walk like John Wayne sometimes when hr had done a wee and very recently has now started to reply yes if I asked if he had done a poo but this is hit and miss.

It is very helpful to know that I should try sitting him in the potty before his bath to see what happens. I just didn't want to confuse him or cause any problems later on.

Give it a go amd see what happens. I think tgeres a fair age range on when they are ready, sounds like he might be an early one. My eldest showed awareness at this age and was totally dry including at night by 2y3months. Total shock to me and not how Is planned it. DC2&3 totally unaware until MUCH later and would just trickle out pee without noticing 😑

Potty has been ordered! Will see what happens. Thanks everyone x

Hi op, I potty trained my son at just before 2 years old. His language was quite "behind" then, he could say poo but not wee BUT he picked things up really quickly. I decided to try when I noticed he'd often look down then start pulling at his nappy. He'd always tell us when he had done a poo, sometimes just before too.

One day right before his bath he was stripped off, about to get in and he did a wee. I said oh ok no worries let's clean that up. He looked at me and said "more" and proceeded to poo on the bathroom floor before I had processed what was about to happen 🤦

We got a potty then next day and he did so well. Poo was sorted almost immediately. Wees took longer as they come on fast and he sometimes didn't want to stop what he was doing. We watched for signs he needed to go, prompted him, would read or let him watch a hey Duggee on the potty to keep him still sometimes. We never needed to use stickers or chocolate, we luckily hit that sweet spot where he was excited to do something new and eager to please/show us what he could do.

He did need some support for a bit longer than an older child would with things like getting his trousers up and down and he would not go in public toilets which meant us carrying a travel potty everywhere and being very discreet at times. But he loved being a "big boy" and I know it was the right time for him. If we'd have tried when he was 3 it would have been so much more of a battle (that's just us/him, not saying no one should wait or anything)

My advice would be to give it a try, he might surprise you!

He sounds ready if he's aware he's wet. It seems on MN toilet training is started quite late, mine were dry by just over 2.
I have 4DC and never owned a potty, they all used a step and the smaller seat insert, this carting a potty about isn't pleasant to me, straight to toilet.