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Is your child ready for potty training at nursery? Here's the place for all your toilet training questions.

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8 month old uses potty

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WhyAspoonCousin · 03/02/2015 13:43

Having just read a thread about an older baby being trained and the opinions not being favourable, I am now wondering if I have made a mistake...

My son is 8 months, we are using cloth nappies, since starting solids, he started to wait until I had his nappy off to poo.
So I thought get a potty, see what happens. He now has a try every time I put him on it, seems quite happy sitting there.

I have no illusions I am going to get him potty trained any time soon but am I confusing him and will it make it more difficult later? Should I get a portable one to take out with me? Should I go back to him pooing on his mat and back away from the potty?

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SnowwyJane · 03/02/2015 16:59

I do feel it's rather odd for a baby to learn to use the potty already, but maybe it's because I have never heard of it Confused

The only thing I have witnessed is that my brother was introduced to toilet training very young and now he is 5 and still wetting the bed every night :/
So it kind of back fired on him!

homeaway · 03/02/2015 17:05

Have a read up about elimination communication, for some people it works and i suppose in some cultures they don't really use nappies. I have never done it but it does sound interesting and if he is going on the potty then it saves you a wet nappy. I suppose the key is not to stress yourself about it.

AbslnThe · 03/02/2015 17:11

We did EC from the start with DS, and he was comfortably going to use the potty as soon as he could crawl. We also used cloth nappies which I really believe help with the potty use. He is four now, and no regression or backfiring.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 03/02/2015 17:16

Not dealing with shitty nappies is a godsend! Dd was reliably clean from about 1yr (although I used to hold her over toilet rather than nappy so didn't have to deal with shitty nappies either.)

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WhyAspoonCousin · 03/02/2015 17:32

Thanks for that, I will have a look at the book. I didn't even know it had a name!

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AbslnThe · 03/02/2015 17:55

No problem! Good luck!

Artandco · 03/02/2015 18:00

We put ours on the toilet every time we changed nappy from around that age. Ds1 was fully trained by 16 months, ds2 by 20 months. By 10-12 months all poo was def in toilet

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