So, do you think she is ready to start potty training? I'm confused!

[janjas]

My dd is 2.4 and I'm not sure if she is ready for potty training yet. The problem is that she hates being wet or soiled and as soon as she does a wee in her nappy she insists that I take it off. She doesn't understand the concept of pottys or toilets thought! I will take her nappy off and she will then just wee or poo on the floor, even though I ask her every 20 mins if she needs to go, and the potty is in the same room! Does anybody have any suggestions? Thankyou!

Well if it were my DD I wouldn't think she was ready. I have a 2.3 DD and she knows when she is in the middle of a wee and knows when she is doing a poo and tells everyone but I don't think I will try and potty train her until she is actually asking to go herself knows when she needs a wee not just doing one.

But I also have an 8 month old and really can't be bothered to make any more work for myself than necessary.

Maybe it is a little early for her.

We got one of those potties that is inside a little step so it was there in the bathroom for a while (so he was used to it). We sometimes put teddy on it or him on it before he went into the bath. He knew what it was and what it was for but wasn't all that interested.

At about 2.8 he just decided himself one day to use it and that was that. Day 1 - completely dry, day 2 - about 4 accidents and after that, pretty much OK day and night.

I was worried that it would be a big deal but just tried to be as calm about it as possible.

Let her choose some nice pretty girly pants (so she won't want to ruin them). I think that it is easier to potty train when the weather is warmer.

I think that people have problems when they get stressed about it and the child sees this and either gets stressed out too, or exercises a little power over poor old mummy by refusing to poo on demand!

Good luck!

HI!!
Well, please don't get me wrong but I think 2.4years old child should use a potty without any conserns.

I support a very earlt potty training. My dd was put on potty for the first time when she was around 7-8 months old. And by the time of 2.4 we had no problems with potty.
I know that babies are not awared of what is a potty or toilet ant all those things. But they aware of being wet or in soils.

I had a lot of panties for her, washed them every day but didn't put any nappy during the day. only for sleep tiems. But the rest now.
Honestly, we went thru no stress with early potty training.
So take off the nappies and get soem patience and you will see in a couple of months an improvment
Good luck

Well, that's another view I suppose.

My son is 2.2 and he often uses the loo or the potty but whenever he wears pants he only tells me after he has had a wee that he needed one. The use of the loo or potty tends to be coincidental.

We're not pushing potty training at all. He'll be ready when he is ready and that isn't now. I'm not sure your DD is either, but there is no harm in introducing the potty or the loo and having fun with it. DS like to pretend to have a poo and wipe his bottom afterwards.

Sounds like she is getting there, but maybe not quite there yet. It depends how much effort you want it to be, IMHO. You could try just putting your DD on the potty regularly and waiting for her to wee, then heaping on the praise / bribes?

Signs with DS were (in the order they happened):
aware when he was doing a wee or a poo
hating nappies
interest in pants (not panicked rejection, ie nonono, not pants!)
interest in the (ignored for the past year) potty
and finally,
able to tell me in advance he was going to need a wee / poo.

We trained in less than a week when he was 2.8 and totally ready. Hardly any accidents, no stress, cost: 1 box of 'celebrations' chocs, given out one at a time as 'special weeing chocolates!'.

Hi janjas

Try to give her some nappy off time and see how she goes. If she's not ready, she'll soon let you know and its no biggy, just put the nappy back on and try again at a later time.

I have found with both my older girls that once they actually do one in the potty, it just 'clicks'. It may take only a day or it could take weeks ...just don't put pressure on her and take it at her pace. If she doesn't want to do it, just leave it.

My oldest was potty trained at about 22/23 months - she was very similar to your dd and didn't like being soiled so was much happier when toilet trained. My dd2 trained herself, no intervention at all. Just a potty lying about and plenty nappy-off time.

I'm going to make a start with my dd3 because although she's very young (only 17 months) she knows when she's going to do a poo and will tell me, so I may as well encourage her to do it on the potty. She is less aware of when she needs a wee so I can't see her being dry anytime soon. No big deal though.

Should have said that dd2 was 2 - actually did it for the first time on her second birthday

I was probably completely naive and certainly no expert but when dd found the potty under my bed at 22 months and did a poo and wee on it, I threw out the nappies, bought knickers and never had any accidents day or night, as she was my first i wasn't even amazed . With ds i was waiting for the same sort of thing to happen, obviously it didn't, so at 26mths I again threw out the nappies. It took about a week to get him completely dry day and night but it definitely wasn't stressful. Take lots of changes of clothes and a seat or potty out with you to deal with accidents. I dont know the proper name for them but the sheet things that can be put in their beds to soak up accidents are also great for car seats, buggies.

My dd was quite stubborn with the potty trainind and a bit late for girls 2.7, ds on the other hand was 2.2 months ad great from day one.
My take is the older they are the more they are able to sy NO as opposed to younger child.
It does take time they are all different but if you perseve you should be some results, max 1 week (unless they are like my dd), and you need to be comitted not one day on/off. nappies only at sleep time.

Good luck