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potty training at 19m

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littlefrog · 05/11/2008 09:44

DS has been extremely interested in poos and pees and loos for ages - comes and looks to see what we are doing, makes a psss noise when he hears us peeing, and for quite a while has done the same thing either just before or as he pees himself when he's out of a nappy.
We've had a potty around for ages, and he likes it, both as a thing to put thing in and more recently to sit on too.
A couple of weeks ago he was nappy free and went all on his own, sat on the potty and did a pee - no encouraging, nobody taking any notice, he just did it.
A few accidents since then (he's not nappy free that much), and then yesterday evening he said he wanted to psss, so I took off his nappy, and he wandered about for a bit before doing a pee in his potty then, and another before his bath. Was v wet and dirty when he got up this morning though.
CM says it sounds like he's ready for potty training and we should give it a go - what do people think? And how do we do it with one so young (and not that coordinated - he's been walking less than a month!)?
(by the way I'm on the EC end of the spectrum - have read a lot about it, and tried the cueing thing (hence the psss noises), but haven't had the energy or courage to give it a real go.)

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littlefrog · 09/11/2008 18:48

well, just to encourage you, we've had a miracle day! Every single pee in the potty! We went out for 2 hours in the morning, so he was in a nappy then - dry. He was in a nappy for his nap - woke up dry. Amazing! I've never had a day without nappies to wash before! Only 'miss' was a poo one - DH was washing up his tea, so not concentrating, and DS was fussing, and did a poo v neatly on the floor quite near his potty, but definitely not in it! Still, even with that, we are feeling excited!
One problem though, DS is not that coordinated, and is frightened about sitting on is potty with trousers down - they have to come right off - guess there's nothing to be done about that, but it's a bit of a pain! Poor mite, he's only been walking 3 weeks!

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