Potty training at 19months

[missdramaqueen]

Hello
I'm a full time teacher and am currently on summer holidays - my daughter is in full time child care with a childminder.
I would really like her to be potty trained over the summer. I'm not sure I want the childminder to do it - she has a number of kids and not sure she could give my daughter the full attention she needs.

So I started last Tuesday - my daughter will tell me when she wants a poo - and will do it on the potty. However she normally tells me she's doing a poo about 15 mins before she actually does one so I have to literally follow her around until she does it! Then when it's happening she doesn't like doing it on the potty and tries to get up.

Weeing is a different matter - she will occasionally tell me that she needs a wee - and a second before she goes she will say euch and I can ask her to stop and take her to the potty where she will sometimes continue or stop all together and hold it until nap time when her nappy goes back on.

She always recognises that she is weeing or pooing and hates pooing in nappy (tries to take it off)

I am worried I'm pushing her? Has anyone got any advice? Should I stop? (I really don't want to!!!)
it's been a couple of days with a small amount of progress ( all my friends tell me it happens in two weeks? I cannot see this happening!

I think she's a bit young personally...what signs were there that she is ready? Or are you just doung it to suit your needs - holiday, childminder etc?

Bit of both really - she was telling me she wanted a poo then after she did it she wanted nappy off - started to take her nappy off after school and when she weed she would shout wee/poo.

I obviously I want to do it for convience x

this sounds very like my dd, i am on day 2/3 of introducing potty. however my daughter is 17 months and seems to hate the potty, she screams if i try sit her on it but like your dd is v aware of her poos and wees and will tell me if she needs to go or has gone. I'm waiting for a reply on another thread as am wanting to take the EC approach. Hope somebody has some good advice for u soon!

I think doing it to soon when she isn't really ready is going to make it harder in the long run.

Although being aware is a sign they may be nearly ready it doesn't mean they are.

Unfortunately potty training is one of those things that doesn't work to your schedule. If she isn't ready then you will just make things harder for yourself. 1.5 is very young to even consider it really

Although it seems massively young to me, I agree that she seems to be giving signs that she is ready, though the signals are mixed.

I don't know whether this would work for you - it did for DS but he was nearly 3 at the time - when I knew there was going to be a poo sooner or later, I would take off pants and trousers, put the potty near him where he was playing, and remind him to sit down when the poo starts coming out. He was always really good with this, and we didn't have any poo-on-the-floor incidents. If she is trying to get up off the potty when it's happening that is more concerning. It reminds me of DS 6 months previously when he seemed almost phobic of anything actually coming out into the potty. Maybe try a different shape or design of potty, or see if she can communicate to you how she does want to do it, given that she clearly doesn't want to do it in her pants/nappy any more!