did your dd/ ds show signs f being ready early around 20 mo? Any tips?

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In the last 6 weeks, dd 20mo has started to tell me when she is about to poo,though has dropped it the last week. When she's been without a nappy, a couple of times we've had some poo and wee, which she points to etc. Today she pulled her nappy off saying poo, then crouched and weeed on the floor.
Although I don't think she's ready for cold turkey style, I'd like to encourage and help her get used to the idea, but worried about being too early and running around with a potty in my hand for months!
Any ideas? When do you take the plunge with the potty after these kind of signs? She calls wee poo at the moment, is it important she knows the difference beore I start?

my ds was ready at this age and what I did was put pull up nappies on (so they were easy to get up and down) and then took him to the toilet/put him on the potty at regular intervals. He never did much sitting on the potty and preferred to pee into it standing up (with me holding the potty!). He never pooed in the potty either so we used the toilet too pretty much from the start. Once he started telling me he needed to poo/pee (even while wearing the pull up) I put him into pants. We had very few accidents using this method and ds was out of nappies in the day by 2 years old.

I'd start putting her regularly on the potty (I mean regularly once or twice a day, not every half hour) and see what happens. I used to put ds on the potty at bathtime because it was around for dd and from about 18 months he often did a poo on it. I can't entirely remember how we progressed from there but I think we just upped the frequency of going on the potty and then he went into pants around 22 months. He had occasional accidents for a week or so but fine after that.

I think it's difficult for them at first to know whether they want to wee or poo, I wouldn't worry too much if she doesn't know the difference. But it is important that she is able to confidently communicate to you that she needs to go.

Thanks for that, think I will try putting her on the potty once or twice a day, I bought one a while ago to get her used to it. She's in cloth nappies, so I'm hoping to just make the switch to knickers when she's ready. Didn't want to go the all or nothing route yet, but needed to hear if doing the above was do-able as a bit of gentle encouragement!