What age did you start?

[Sweetiepetal]

What age was your DC when you started potty training?

23 months

dd was 2½ years and ds was about 20 months

Just started slowly. 22 months. Not really sure how to do it though...

DS 2 years 2 months. Was provably ready earlier but had small DD and managed to delay a bit.

DD 19 months . Her choice - started pulling off nappies and going "Eeee" as she wanted to be like DS. If I had another child would try harder to delay as was harder work with not reliably verbal and unable to take own clothes off child.

DD was 2 1/4 and potty trained in a few days. Some of her friends started to be potty trained at about 2 but frequent accidents went on for months. Boys seem to be later.

There's no particular age though. Give it a go if it feels right - but I think best to stop and wait a month if it's not working rather than forcing the issue.

Hopefully it will be relatively painless.

2 for one child 3 for the other and then had to keep at it for a long long time.

Thanks for these! My daughter is nearly 22 months & I've started today, getting her to sit on potty every hour. Nothing yet, but at least she's sitting on the potty!

Mamaesi, want to be potty training buddies?!

yes please! I have been at it for a week. Sort of...

For various reasons we have had to stay home many afternoons. So in the afternoon I take her pants off, she wears a dress and goes free. We have managed wee and poo... and only one accident.

However... she seems to change between begging for a nappy...or at other times refusing to put one on!!

I am now going to try pull ups even though some people say they are no good?? But Otherwise I will never be able to leave the house!

As I said before I am not really sure what I am doing..trying to be relaxed about it. But not ready for cold turkey. There is so much conflicting advice!

Excellent! I'll PM you!

2.2 ds he was totally ready I delayed for a few weeks but then he was dry in 2 weeks

DS was about 3.5 and it took several months weeks.
DD is 2.4 and it took about 48 hours.

I think it really helped that DD is much more verbal than DS was and is able to tell me she needs to go.

Cor, 48 hours! That's impressive!

I know! I still can't quite believe it. It's been a month now, and I'm still waiting for it all to go wrong...

Just started - 39 months!! Felt a lot of pressure to start earlier....but glad I waited until my DD decided she wanted to wear knickers. Friday - 3 accidents, Saturday - 2 accidents, today - none so far!! :)

ooh, I think I just started - ds is 2.7 and has suddenly decided that he doesn't want to wear nappies any more. Just had first successful wees on the loo (was using potty before bath for wees for the last few weeks) .. but not sure how to go about it as working full time and can't remember process I followed for ds1!

Should I just trust the nanny / nursery to get on with it??

(apologies for thread hijack - wan't intentional, just carried on writing!)

Ds was 18months but was showing all the signs saying wee poo and taking off wet nappies

DC1 21 months
DC2 18-19 months
DC3 is currently 2 years and 3.5 months, and although we've had some spells of doing potty time at home and being nappy free, the child is SO obstinate it's not happening. I expect once she decides she wants to do it there'll be no stopping her (just like at the moment there's no convincing her to participate, even though she has the awareness and language).

It was much easier with under 2s, but every child is different .

hello wondered if i could join this thread and ask for some pointers? my son is 20 months and has now started telling me when he has done poo..I'm just wondering if he is ready to start being potty trained? however as he is telling me after the event, its obv too late to get him on the potty (i tried today and just ended up in a bit of a mess - I'll say no more). should I be waiting to train him until he tells me before he actually does the poo?

also just wondering what people prefer the plastic potties or the seats that go onto the normal toilet?

Mango Is there any other signs he is ready?

shaz erm i'm not sure really what I should be looking out for. He does pull on his nappy sometimes but other than that, not really, like he hasn't told me to take his nappy off, and generally still runs for the hills when I try and grab him to do his nappy change!

Than I think u should leave it a little while but leave the potty in the toilet where he can see it & if he chooses to sit on it than give praise.

Mango u should look out for him asking for his pull up to be taken off when wet or soild but if u feel he is ready than just put him on the potty in the morning & after lunch & dinner & before a bath & if he does anything plenty of praise I hope this helps

ooh thanks shaz---i don't put him in pull ups at the moment - he still in the active fit - should I be putting him in pull ups? sorry if that's an obvious question!