When do I start toliet training dd

[Ella31]

I've one dd who is 11 months. Getting ahead of myself here but thinking as I've another baby due so its about to get busy.

I'm thinking about the timeline of toliet training. Dd will be 2 in a years time next april. She will be going to a childminder. I'm a teacher so I'll have 2 weeks off at Easter and also all of June July August off (Irish school calender) Do I toliet train her over 2 weeks of Easter when she is 2 or wait till June. My hesitation with Easter is she'll be back to the childminder after the 2 weeks for 2 months so will that just disrupt any training.

Apologies now for what's probably a silly question, it's all new to me.

Not a silly question at all. Personally I’d probably wait until June when you’ve a long run at it.

We tried with our eldest around 2 during a short break and it sort of half-worked at home, but once they went back to childcare the routine changed and we felt like we were starting again. When we did it again later when I had a few uninterrupted weeks, it stuck much quicker.

Also at that age a couple of months can make a big difference in how ready they are. Plenty of kids aren’t fully there right at 2 anyway.

When she is ready!! There's nothing wrong with identifying a time when you have time and space to concentrate on toilet training, but keep an eye on her cues.
As a nanny, I've worked in many families where the parents were waiting for the absolute ideal time to potty train, but the child has had other ideas and decided they were ready at the "wrong" time - holidays, new babies etc. But because they were ready, training went really quickly and with very little hassle. On the other hand, waiting for the right time might mean that you miss a window of readiness, making it harder to train them.

I'd maybe give it a go right at the beginning of Easter hols with the view that if you're not getting anywhere at all after a few days, park it and try again in the summer. My 2 were toilet trained without any real issues 2yrs 2 months and 2 yrs 9 months. The older age one with hindsight probably could have been trained younger but I was very sick in pregnancy before then so wasn't well enough to do it until that age.

You can start sitting her on the potty once or twice a day now and get the experience of just sitting now, before it's a battle of wills. I started this at 13 months and could have started earlier. It took a month before I started catching any of my LOs wees, but you do start to get a sense of their habits quite quickly.

I would start now. Put a potty in the bathroom and sit her on it before bath time, after a meal etc. I liked this page when my DC were small: https://www.bornready.uk/ I didn't use the potty full time, just when we could. I know it sounds like hard work but it actually made life easier!

Our DC must be the same age 😊 also newly pregnant!

I've been putting DD on the potty since she was 9 months and regular catch 2 wees/a poo daily. I'm of the mindset that she's learning good habits. Hoping she'll have lots of naked time this summer and we'll see how it goes