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Help! Toilet Training...

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ladybird30 · 04/08/2025 10:12

My LO is 27 months now and I'm looking to start introducing toileting but I'm SO out of my depth... I'm a FTM so this is all completely new to me.

Can anyone recommend products, websites, particular methods they've had success with?

I'm seen the Upairy pants which look good but I honestly have no idea.

Do I buy my LO a seat for the toilet or a separate potty?

Any recommendations or words of wisdom would be welcomed

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Superscientist · 04/08/2025 13:03

I have a small daughter and went with a potty and a fold up toilet seat. She's nearly 5 now and still sometimes needs the fold up seat as her bottom is small - she's the size of a 3yo. We are rural and still have a potty in the car to make side of the road wees a bit easier. We have just a basic potty and never bothered with a fancy travel potty.

I'd advice thinking about how they have learnt other things and adjust your approach to their personality. My daughter is very much one that likes to understand things before she does them. She rolled once then not again for 5 weeks when she rolled continuously. She took ages to take her first independent steps having been cruising furniture for 4 months. She flat out refused to walk holding our hands. She ran the day after her first steps and hasn't stopped since.

I knew the immersive 3 days no bottoms stay in the house approach wouldn't work for her. So I made my own method giving her short times ~1h without a nappy on and the potty to start with and built up her time. Once we got to 4h she got a choice of nappy or knickers each morning and after her nap. When she was asking for knickers both times we committed to potty training. She flat out refused to wear knickers the first weekend we tried so we waited two weeks and she then did really well. We had to give her the time to cognitively master potty training before she would do it in reality. We had a couple of pairs of potty training knickers which we use on long 2+h drives where we can't easily stop for the toilet. They don't hold a wee but if there's a dribble it protects the car seat! She's about to turn 5 and outgrowing the ones we have and we probably won't replace them. We got them second hand and they haven't had a huge amount of use so I probably couldn't justify the expense of buying them new. I bought the current size when we had a 1400km drive planned over 2 days

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 04/08/2025 13:16

This might help https://www.mumsnet.com/articles/potty-training

Potty Training Tips: How to Potty Train Your Toddler | Mumsnet

Potty training tips for parents, including when to start potty training, how to introduce your toddler to the toilet and how to deal with accidents.

https://www.mumsnet.com/articles/potty-training

lilylooleelala · 04/08/2025 13:20

I’m a FTM too and my daughter is 3 years old next month and she’s been potty trained for around 4 months now. Daytime and nighttime. We got her the fisher price potty https://amzn.eu/d/c4hiYji and we got her a couple of books! They really really helped. We also bought her a travel potty for holidays or when we are out and about https://amzn.eu/d/iWk4LLS I will link them all for you in case you’re insterested. We let her choose her own knickers (just some cheap ones from primark) and we just allowed her to take her time. She was praised massively when she was successful and I think at the beginning we offered her a snack as a treat. Sometimes going for a pee with her at the same time really helped her to understand what she was supposed to do. Oh and switching to the nappy pants at night helped her to understand that they were similar to knickers and she eventually treated them as knickers too and asked for the toilet instead of using the nappy. It takes time but she’ll get there :)

Books:
https://amzn.eu/d/1WzdWRM
https://amzn.eu/d/eP8MqLW
https://amzn.eu/d/fRLOLZi

Potty:
https://amzn.eu/d/9tSlzwS
https://amzn.eu/d/5gyQEnQ

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lilylooleelala · 04/08/2025 13:28

i forgot to add, we bought a book called literally ‘the pee pee poo poo book’ when she had a phase of avoiding going for a number 2 altogether (in potty and nappy). We are living in Germany so it’s probably not so helpful as it’s in German, but it was very visual and actually showed two brothers using the bathroom for wees and poos. It had a pull down page where you can see it travel from the boy into the toilet. It sounds icky but it actually really helped her to understand that it’s a totally normal thing to do. Maybe if there is something similar in UK it could be worth a try? https://amzn.eu/d/hko9R7t

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