My baby asked for the potty! What now?

[JoyS]

DD is 2.1. We've had a potty around for awhile and she knows what it's meant for (besides a hat) but has never shown an interest in using it. Tonight after dinner she said she wanted to do a wee on the potty. Took her upstairs, nappy off, wee'd on the potty. DH and I in absolute shock.

So where do we go from here? Am 38000 weeks pregnant and wasn't planning to start any potty training until after the birth, after things had settled down a bit. Until tonight, DD wasn't showing one bit of interest except for always wanting to flush the toilet. I don't want to push her, she seems so young.

She wakes up dry in the morning about 1/4 of the time.

Any advice appreciated!

[Kif]

3800 weeks ???

feels like that sometimes, hmm?

[Kif]

but i had a very similar experience with my dd under similar circs. i just followed her lead, and she was dry and clean day and night in about a week. brief regression when new baby arrived, but overall was v useful she was self-motivated

[JoyS]

Thanks kif. What did you do about pants? Really was not expecting this, don't have anything but nappies to put on her and can't get to the shops at the moment. I suppose the only thing to do is see what she does tomorrow.

[Kif]

bare bum and max time in the garden = mininmum laundry? pjs?

the benefit of self-starting dcs is that you are less obliged to bribe them with fancy pants and sticker charts - so I'd just roll with it to your convenience

[nybom]

try it! she seems ready...

DS1 was that age when we potty trained as we decided to move into a new house (with carpets!), so not the best of times either. and he WASN'T dry at night, that took a couple of months, so your DD is off to a good start, i think!

it's important to take off the nappies - that made all the difference with DS1, before we were potty training for months and there was no porgress. we left nappies on in crucial moments (long journeys on motor ways etc.) until DS had very few accidents. even now he often decides to need a wee NOOOOOOOW, on very short notice...!
have spare set of socks, undies and trousers with you, just in case...

good luck!