Potty training from 6 months old

[Millie2022]

I want to start potty training my 6 month old but everyone around me disagrees and thinks I should wait! She’s got an obvious poo face and I truly believe that we could do it! She sits up unaided also. I don’t know what I should do? Has anyone else’s potty trained at 6 months? I know it isn’t going to be a walk in the park and she isn’t going to be fully dry for a while so am I just going to waste my time?

Read up on EC (Elimination Communication), there are some useful FB groups. Even if you just use aspects of EC it's great to get baby used to the potty and every catch is one less nappy to wash/throw away!!

People do elimination communication from birth.

By all means sit baby on the potty and get them used to it but don’t expect them to be out of nappies for a while.

Just to add I started at 5m with my daughter, by 7m she only ever pood on the potty and was dry in the day by 18m and dry at night by 2 so it os certainly do-able and worth it x

That wouldn’t be potty training, it would be elimination communication aka you trying to catch it in a pot. It was popular in ye olde times when you’d be boiling terry nappies on the stove. Pointless now when you’ve got disposables and/or washing machines.

Even if you go down the route of very early potty training, you’re talking minimum 18 months old. Until they are properly upright and mobile they just physically don’t have the muscle control. And still most people prefer to wait until the child is at least 2 so that their communication skills are developed.

My friend did elimination communication with her daughters right from the newborn. At the time I thought it seemed like so much more work than nappies but now i think it's a great idea as my three year old is terrified of going with out nappies and hold in wee in whereas her daughter's are just so used to it and her eldest was trained by 18 months.

I guess my question is - why?

You will still need to take him/her constantly to the potty as they are too young to do it independently. So that’s another year at least 😂 so why rush? There is also the risk of stressing them out.

You can train at 18 months, with or without doing elimination communication. I trained DS at 19 months without having done EC and it was fine, actually loads quicker and easier than training my eldest at almost 3! There’s a good chapter in the Oh Crap book about EC, the main advantage is being able to read your child’s signals but it’s not a miracle fast track to potty training (apparently).