Should I start or not?

[EverybodysSleepyEyed]

DS potty trained easily at 2yr3m. I spent a week at home with him and he got a little treat after every successful deposit in the potty. He was clean in 3 days. So I was planning this with DD.

She is 23m and I bought a potty story to start introducing the idea. When I started reading she went to get her potty so she sat on it while I read it.

When we got to the part where the girl wees in her potty I asked DD if she could and sure enough she did. She then wanted me to read the book again and when we got to that part she did another big wee.

DS and I gave her a lot of praise and DS showed her where the wee goes and how to wash her hands.

She then had the mother of all tantrums when I tried to get the nappy on her for bedtime!!

Should I capitalise on this and get rid of the nappies in the day and just go for it? The last thing I want to do is start if she isn't quite ready and end up traumatising the pair of us!

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I'd go for it. I tried with my DD at this stage and she wasn't quite ready and I was massively pregnant, after day one I stopped and went back to pull ups, she wasn't bothered. Did her at 2.6 and she was done in a day. Now trying to potty train my DS at 2.10 and it's a nightmare. I know a lot of people with girls who did it around 23 months and never looked back. If it works great if not leave it a couple of months and have another go, no trauma. Good luck....now back to dettoling the playroom

well she did 2 wees in her pants and then asked to wear a nappy!

I think I will take that as a cue that she is not ready!

at least you know now! better luck next time :)

maybe do a slow start for now, leave her in nappies but once or twice a day have nappy off time with a potty handy and read the book so she gets used to it, then use it more and more, thats waht i did with my dd1 and it worked.

That sounds a good idea - I think she is the type of child that will decide to do it and then that will be it!

i bought pull up pants with a princess pic that fades when they wee.
i told her they were big girl pants and if she kept them dry she kept wearing them, if wet the princess went in the bin.
at 18 months i offered potty twice a day and she did poos on potty, wore nappies al day.
at 19/20 months she was in pull ups offereing potty every hr or 2 hrs and lots of dry pull ups.
21 months pull ups were dry and she would go to potty herself when needing wees so i potty trained her and she was dry.
i did 2 days bare bum with potty nearby, 2 days just in pants then dressed in easy trousers, she only had a couple of accidents as was dry by end of week.

it seemed like it took 3 months but i wasnt potty training her from 18 months, just getting her used to it slowly.

dd2 on the other hand wont sit on the potty??

I potty trained DS with military precision in 3 days. I'm not sure that will work with DD so I think pull ups are a good idea