Best way to start potty training?

[lovelychops]

Hi all, hoping for some mumsnet wisdom. DD is 2 and 3 months, and I'm hoping to start potty training.
But I'm not too sure how to actually start the process. So far I've bought her a book which she's ignored. We have a potty and in the last two days she's started sitting on it, but with nappy and clothes on.
We've been watching videos on you tube and she seems interested and had been saying potty and toilet - but when you ask if she needs a wee or try to take off her nappy she shouts 'no' !
Would it be best to keep building up to it, or get the ball rolling and not put a nappy on tomorrow? The whole thing feels like a massive leap...
Any tips would be very welcome.

If I were you I'd leave it a bit longer.

If you want to be a bit proactive why not give her a bit of nappy free time. With ds we did this initially in the time after dinner but before bath. Mainly because he used to poo during after dinner. He mostly stayed dry for this half hour or so and went on the loo before bath. If he did a wee we did lots of praise in the bath after. This progressed to a bit of time in the morning. We constantly asked if he needed to go and sat him on the loo every half hour or so. He got a chocolate star if he produced anything. By the time the big bag of sweets was gone he was pretty much there. Maybe 3-4 days. But he was still asking for a pull up for poos till a good 6 months after that.

There really is no rush. They do get it eventually

He was probably around 2.6 when we started. He's 3.6 now and has had a few regressions but for maybe 2 months has not had an accident other than not aiming very well. I am not worried. Dh (37.10) still has that problem. I assume it's genetic

I think it is easier to wait a little. What worked really well with my youngest four was to encourage them to get the concept, ie nappy free prriods and story reading while they were sitting on the potty. Once we had had acouple of reslts we went for plain bribery. Any time something was in the potty they got a chocolate button after a few days we moved to random reenforcement (chocolate button). They got it and eere quite reliably trained within a few days. We did train a bit latrr than many others ca 2.9 but it was quicker with significantly less accidents and less stress.

Thanks for your replies. Sounds like a good idea to have a bit of nappy free time to get the ball rolling.
Today she's sat on the potty and pulled her trousers down, but left nappy on. But she always does this of her own accord when she thinks no one is looking!