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myLot reputation of 91/100. artemis432 (2138)   ranked 369 out of 14,905 in parenting3 years ago

Here in the US, parents don't start potty training until the baby is close to two - some children aren't fully potty trained until they're three. My husband was potty trained when he was ten months old and from what I've read - this is late for many countries. Many countries will start at birth and babies are fully trained at as young as six months. I've also read that some parents can potty train within a few weeks. When was your baby potty trained and how long did it take? What methods di you use?

 
 
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1. skeen1981 (41)   ranked 2,170 out of 14,905 in parenting   3 years ago

my daughter was potty trained at 2 years and out of night nappies by 2 and a half, my son on the other hand was completly out of nappies at 2, we plan to start potty training our youngest son this summer and hell be 14 months.
I find the easiest way is to wait till summer when there arnt layers of clothes to take off and dress them simply, we normally have a potty at each end of the house so theres one near by and as long as the child knows when they are going to go to the potty (my son pulled faces and looked at his nappy) then they will be easier to potty train as its a sign that their ready.
i found www.huggies.com.au a good website and you can also download a potty training guide, even though i dont recomend pull ups because they feel just like a nappy anyway and you want to get away from that.


myLot reputation of 91/100. artemis432 (2138)   ranked 369 out of 14,905 in parenting  3 years ago

Great tips! I'm hoping to do it a lot sooner...we are visiting my husband's family at Thanksgiving - they sent us tickets - and I just had the thought that maybe I should ask her too. Its a cultural thing for them to train early.

I like the idea of waiting until summer - maybe I should have started this summer!

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2. myLot reputation of 87/100. ShoppersWing (941)   ranked 1,142 out of 14,905 in parenting   3 years ago

My Son was ten days when we started to give him potty training.

We just use to take him to bathroom every 30mins, sometimes he pee sometimes not.

And also I made a routine of trying for Potty at 9 to 9:30 am,few days it took,but then he got routined. Morning schedule was, he will wake up,get a feed, then massage him, he will have bath then feed again

Then he poops.

So when he got 2-3months old, he was potty trained.

Good Luck


myLot reputation of 91/100. artemis432 (2138)   ranked 369 out of 14,905 in parenting  3 years ago

Wow - I'm going to try that. Every thirty minutes....

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3. myLot reputation of 76/100. suspenseful (17042)   ranked 2,100 out of 14,905 in parenting   3 years ago

Our sons started to walk before they were a year old, I think it was about ten or eleven months. Soon after that, when they became dry at night and when they could walk relatively well, we started them on the potty. It did not take long, a couple of days and they knew what to do. I do not know what time it was, but I am sure it was way before they were two years old. I think they were probably a little over a year or a year and a half.


myLot reputation of 91/100. artemis432 (2138)   ranked 369 out of 14,905 in parenting  3 years ago

How easy that must've been for you - and so much less expensive then diapers. Other people in the US who I tell this too they think the idea is crazy - to potty train so early. And I alked to one daycare on base who although they told me they work with parents who are potty training - continueing in daycare said they couldn't do this for so young a baby - it would take up way too much time.

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4. myLot reputation of 89/100. mommy2taylor1 (362)   ranked 1,151 out of 14,905 in parenting   3 years ago

I was potty trained at 18 months so I wanted to take the same initiative with my daughter. I did start potty training her at 15 months and she was potty trained at 16 months... but, then the unthinkable happened and an airplane of all things went by while she was sitting on the toilet and she was so scared of the noise that of course we had a lapse in potty training- she just wouldn't go on the toilet. So, I gave up until she was about 20 months and then I just set the timer for every 30 minutes and when it would go off we would go to the bathroom and pretty soon when she would hear the timer she would know it was time to go to the bathroom. I was one of the lucky ones because she was totally trained in 3 days and we were very consistent:) but, the pooping on the toilet was another story-- she still has the occasional accident, but I did that by buying a gum ball machine and then when she would go on the toilet she would get a penny to put in the machine and then of course i would cut the gum up to where it wasn't a choking hazard for her and it worked like a charm! I'm a firm believer in rewards and that's the way I chose to go about doing it for my daughter! and I'm very happy I did because she's trained and we are preg. with #2 and she's due to arrive in February--so it's been nice!


myLot reputation of 91/100. artemis432 (2138)   ranked 369 out of 14,905 in parenting  3 years ago

I love that reward system - great idea! Like lily says - we are trained just as much as the baby taking them every thirty minutes - lol. I can't imagine what it would be like changing diapers and being pregnant! I am sensitive to smells as it is - when pregnant!

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5. myLot reputation of 96/100. AmbiePam (15232)   ranked 1,613 out of 14,905 in parenting   3 years ago

Parents wait that long? I live in the U.S. and I didn't know that. Of course, I'm not a parent. But I was potty trained at 9 months, my sister at 11 months, and my mom was also potty trained at 9 months. My dad was a year old before he was potty trained, but he says that is because his head was so big he couldn't stand up all the way, LOL.


myLot reputation of 91/100. artemis432 (2138)   ranked 369 out of 14,905 in parenting  3 years ago

Crazy huh? And one daycare I called when I brought up the idea thought I was crazy - and said although they help parents when kids are older - continueing potty trraining parents do at home - older like two or three- they wouldn't help a baby under one.

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6. myLot reputation of 98/100. lilybug (15290)   ranked 31 out of 14,905 in parenting   3 years ago

The babies are not potty trained that early the parents are trained. A child is not technically potty trained until they can go into the bathroom when they need to go, not just go when the parents take them in there.


myLot reputation of 91/100. artemis432 (2138)   ranked 369 out of 14,905 in parenting  3 years ago

What a great point! Yes but it certainy saves on diapers! And my baby started crawling at six months so conceivably he could have started then.


myLot reputation of 93/100. foxyfire33 (5796)   ranked 112 out of 14,905 in parenting  3 years ago

Exactly what I was thinking lilybug!


myLot reputation of 100/100. sophylline (564)   ranked 2,051 out of 14,905 in parenting  3 years ago

Yeah, I also think so, too, lilybug. Great point.


myLot reputation of 91/100. artemis432 (2138)   ranked 369 out of 14,905 in parenting  3 years ago

Great point, so they can get to the bathroom at six months - by crawling - wow think of all the diapers you save! Diapers are so expensive!


myLot reputation of 91/100. artemis432 (2138)   ranked 369 out of 14,905 in parenting  3 years ago

Its true we are trained not just to take the to the bathroom to train them - so they're ready at six to nine months to go on their own - but trained to change their diapers when we see they've peed or pooped! Yet this 'training' we do when we potty train, means we will have a lot less of those diaper changes. And by six months - they're crawling to the potty chair on their own! Funny point, us being trained - yep to change diapers, to bring them to the potty, to feed when they cry! I like this training though - we're needed!


myLot reputation of 91/100. artemis432 (2138)   ranked 369 out of 14,905 in parenting  3 years ago

Its true we are trained not just to take the to the bathroom to train them - so they're ready at six to nine months to go on their own - but trained to change their diapers when we see they've peed or pooped! Yet this 'training' we do when we potty train, means we will have a lot less of those diaper changes. And by six months - they're crawling to the potty chair on their own! Funny point, us being trained - yep to change diapers, to bring them to the potty, to feed when they cry! I like this training though - we're needed!

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7. myLot reputation of 93/100. foxyfire33 (5796)   ranked 112 out of 14,905 in parenting   3 years ago

None of mine were trained before they were 3. I have always thought that was completely normal. My youngest two are 11 months and almost 2 1/2 years, neither of them are ready to be trained. I don't want to be trained to take them, I think that is unfair to them and me. I would rather wait until they actually know what they are doing.


myLot reputation of 91/100. artemis432 (2138)   ranked 369 out of 14,905 in parenting  3 years ago

I think you're right - all families and babies are different. For instance, I'm still nursing at ten months and since like six months people - including my mom were like - but you're weaning right? What about introducing solids ( I have)? How long are going to do that (like its a four letter word.


myLot reputation of 93/100. foxyfire33 (5796)   ranked 112 out of 14,905 in parenting  3 years ago

I'm still nursing at just over 11 months so I know what you mean! I get tired of saying "Yes, he eats real food too" "No, he's not taking a bottle yet"...even the nurses at our recent hospital trip looked at me like I had two heads when I said he didn't use bottles or pacifiers (and brought him some anyway!)


myLot reputation of 91/100. artemis432 (2138)   ranked 369 out of 14,905 in parenting  3 years ago

You know what, my baby hasn't been (knock wood) sick once. He gets everything he needs. Many moms don't even gie their babies healthy foods!


myLot reputation of 93/100. foxyfire33 (5796)   ranked 112 out of 14,905 in parenting  3 years ago

Mine has been sick twice BUT he also has a lot of older siblings and almost all over them go to public schools filled with the germs of every common childhood illness lol so all in all I think he's pretty healthy too, especially since the other kids have had a few different things since he's been born that he never came down with.


myLot reputation of 91/100. artemis432 (2138)   ranked 369 out of 14,905 in parenting  3 years ago

That is true, we know that over protection is actually harmful. So he's hung out with a kid who is sick ALL the time - he goes to daycare. And we're not overprotective, likely like you when he goes out and about with us.

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8. myLot reputation of 88/100. jointoearn (1167)   ranked 6,559 out of 14,905 in parenting   3 years ago

potty training. i can't remember at what age my wife trained my child indoing this. i was not mostly at home. but i think it was the same age i guess. since i am not really from US. though we do that too our children. we train them to do so many things for their young age besides potty training. we try to tell them how to eat their food properly and not to hit people with their bottle and to how to speak and how to count. there are lot of things that we teach. ilke how to sing and how to dance. i enjoy teaching my childern a lot of things when they were young. we even teach them some english words for their young age, like we teach them the english words for every animals. like dogs, cats, and birds. besides teaching them how to say in our language. we try to teach them the english words as well. so that they will learn early and they will be more fluent earlier. though we can't really expect them to be fluent while they are young. since we speak in our language mostly in our home. but i hope with some knowledge i english that they will elarn english in school fluently when they already going to school. and hopefully when they ar in their teens they are already fluent on it. and will not have trouble learning it. when i wan young i have to study it on my own. there is no one who teach me. even though we learn ebnglish in our school. they don't teach english in school extensively. that's why i am not really fluent. i have to watch movies english movies and read a lot of books to learn as much as i can.


myLot reputation of 91/100. artemis432 (2138)   ranked 369 out of 14,905 in parenting  3 years ago

Your English seems excellent to me. What great things you teach your child!!!

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9. freddy89 (17)   ranked 11,713 out of 14,905 in parenting   3 years ago

I haven't got a child of my one.. But i think you should start as soon as passible. Because children learn much faster when they are small.


myLot reputation of 91/100. artemis432 (2138)   ranked 369 out of 14,905 in parenting  3 years ago

Yes, not only that, its very natural, its only in recent times - and basically only in Western practice that this has changed, and parents start later.

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10. myLot reputation of 100/100. sophylline (564)   ranked 2,051 out of 14,905 in parenting   3 years ago

Wow, that is just amazing how they can potty train their kids so early as six months! And your husband was potty trained when he was ten months. My baby is one year and nine months old. She is not yet trained. Though I have started a month ago when she was starting to refuse to put on clothes and just love to strip down and has made it her habit. I guess, it was a sign that maybe she would be ready to be potty trained. I just put her there when she would take a bath. Sometimes she would take a pee. Other times not. I have yet to experince that she take a poo. I am also interested in learning how others train their children.


myLot reputation of 91/100. artemis432 (2138)   ranked 369 out of 14,905 in parenting  3 years ago

Many start at birth. It actually facillitates communication between mother and child at a very early age.

There are many great books on the subject - you can look it up on Amazon - and then buy the book - cheaper - on ebay - that's what I'm going to do - plus ask my mother - in - law for advice. The neat thing to learn is that this has been the natural way for centuries - it is only fairly recently - and a Western practice, that we wait.

Good luck! I will write a new discussion after Thanksgiving if I get some great tips from his mom!


myLot reputation of 100/100. sophylline (564)   ranked 2,051 out of 14,905 in parenting  3 years ago

Hi, thanks for the information and the nice comment. How was your trip to your in laws? Did you learn any new tips from them? Thanks.


myLot reputation of 91/100. artemis432 (2138)   ranked 369 out of 14,905 in parenting  3 years ago

That's for Thanksgiving. And also my baby's first birthday. I'm hoping to learn some and will be buying a book on early potty training.


myLot reputation of 100/100. sophylline (564)   ranked 2,051 out of 14,905 in parenting  3 years ago

Oh, okay. I will be on the lookout for additional information on early potty training. Thank you.

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