I know many think it is so early to train but where I come from, kids start potty the moment they can sit on their own.

I remember when I started off, I used the toilet and is first poop in the toilet was at 6 weeks. Back then, potty training was far from my mind. My boy was crying all the time and i had tried all the gas help I knew and nothing helped until someone told me, "maybe just hold him over the toilet. Some kids are born clean and don't want to poo in their diapers so they cry in effort to tell you they need to poo" I don't know if it was a coincidence, but I did as she said n he pooped in the toilet within 5 minutes or less. I was so shocked. They call it elimination communication.

I didn't buy him a potty until he was 4 months. His legs swang in the air the first time he sat on his potty. By 5 months, his feet were touching the ground. With time I realised I needed to listen to his poo queues just as much as I pay attention to his hunger and sleep queues. I was lazy sometimes, but times I put in an effort, he wouldn't have an accident. Quickly I learnt he pees after his naps. So I learnt to let him sit on his potty after he wakes up. Of I waited 10 minutes, he would have a wet diaper.

Fast forward. The whole of these past two weeks, he has not done poo in his diaper. All the times have been in his potty. I don't offer the potty so long but I now get the feeling he holds his poo until I offer the potty. Also we have caught some pee. Not all the pee but most, so that he has used his cloth diapers for over 6 hours. I usually change his diaper after every 2 hours so if I catch his pee twice, we can go for 6 hours in a clean diaper. He usually pees in the potty within 3-5 minutes and I get him off so he knows the purpose of the potty is for him to pee. Poo takes a little longer to come out but of recent, he is doing it under 10 minutes. He cries when he is done using potty and I know he wants to get off.

I don't know if using cloth diapers made him more sensitive to his excrements and made him under that when he sits in the potty, he doesn't feel dirty after he pees or poos, but I heard it helps.

I feel so good that after over 5 months of using the potty, my son has finally learnt to wait to poo if potty ain't offered and this, only at 9 months.

Another reason I started training early was because I wanted him to be comfortable with his potty and to know it is for pee or poo. Many kids that start late end up playing with the potty or fearing it. He has neither these. He sits on it well and I will give him a toy and wait for him to be done.