Struggling with the anti-potty training brigade!

[CanNeverDecide]

My DD is 20m old and certainly aware of doing wees and poos, and if a potty is lying around she will take herself off to it to do a wee or poo when needed. Based on this, I put her in pants last week as I thought she was ready. She was doing really well - a couple of dribbles in her pants before telling me she needed a wee, but then would do the rest in the potty. Staying dry for about 2hrs at at time, sometimes more, sometimes less. Pooing in potty mostly, just a couple of poo accidents.

I guess it's more intensive at this age as I do find myself reminding her a lot in case she's forgotten she's wearing pants. On the whole though, it seems do-able.

My problem is there seem to be so many people who keep telling me she's too young, and now I'm starting to feel bad that I'm ruining her fun by making her have to be conscious of her weeing and pooing rather than just doing it on the go.

Should I just put her back in nappies and wait 'til she's older?

Very confused...

Today we were out all day and as I hadn't yet got a travel potty, I put her in nappies. They were wet each time I changed them so she was obviously happily weeing away without telling me. But when we got home I took the nappy off and asked her if she wanted to do a wee. She sat on the potty and did a big wee, then said poo and after a bit of getting on and off, stayed put and did a big poo. However, she then did a dribble wee on the floor about 30 mins later, said 'wee wee', I took her to the potty and she did the rest there.

So, based on all this, would you carry on or go back to nappies. I'm in no hurry, but equally don't want to miss an opportunity if she's ready.

Thanks.

[CanNeverDecide]

Ooh, will look into those, Moon.

Have sent her in pull ups this morning but called them pants, so hopefully she'll not think they're nappies!

[iskra]

This was our situation with DD. She was a wee bit older at 24 months. We stuck with it & although it probably took about 6 weeks before she really totally cracked it (we were in & out of nappies during that period) she's now totally dry. I think if you don't mind the more intensive nature of doing it now rather than at 3 it's a great idea to go for it.

[CanNeverDecide]

Thanks again. We're not doing toooooo badly. Wee accidents are rare-ish, maybe 1 every 2 days, which I don't think is too bad. Although today I did find her pants a bit damp and she hadn't said anything to me, so took her to the potty and she did a massive wee. Poos are taking a bit longer to crack - she gets the sensation very soon before she needs to go, so we are more often than not late to the loo for these. Am going to persevere for a bit and see how we get on.