Introducing a potty?

Morgan • 👼🏼👶🏻

I definitely don’t think my girl is ready to be *fully* potty trained but she already has shown some signs of potty readiness. She’s started telling us as soon as she uses the bathroom and will try to wipe her own butt through her diaper if we don’t change her fast enough. She seems to show lots of interest when her dad and I use the restroom and will try to wipe our butts as well (sorry if thats tmi hahaha). She just turned 17 months. should I try introducing her to a small potty and just see what happens/get her used to it for when she is fully ready? or is that a terrible idea and am I doing it too soon? Lol I’m a ftm and a little clueless when it comes to anything regarding potty training 😅

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Ie

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Nope not too soon. My daughter is 18 months she tells me when she have toPee and poop. What I did was took off her diaper and told her to let me know when she have to use the potty. She never tells me but if her pamper is off for more than an hour I’ll sit her on the potty and she will pee and then I will reward her and have everybody clapping for her.. I just need 3 days to do that consistently and she’ll be potty trained. I’m tired of buying diapers lol

Ve

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I’m a ftm as well and don’t know if my approach is any good. But I have a potty in my daughters room so she is familiar with it. I ask her if she wants to go on the potty. Mostly she just shakes no and that’s alright. So far she wanted on it just once but she also peed on it right away. For now I just let her play with the potty and let her sit on it when she wants. No pressure. But she knows where her potty is and what it’s for

Ka

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I’ve been introducing my daughter to the potty for the past few months, and she actually just went pee in it for the first time a couple of days ago! And then she did again yesterday, and once more today. I’ve found that it’s easiest to start by taking her to the potty first thing when she wakes up in the morning or after a nap because she doesn’t pee in her sleep. I also try to keep it fun for her, so I keep a couple of toys that she only gets to play with while she’s on the potty. After she gets done, she likes to “flush” it (there’s a fake flusher that makes noise on her potty) and she claps and dances. I’m just following her lead! If she wants to get up, I let her get up. It’s still early so I’m not in any rush.

Ke

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We have been sitting out daughter on the potty before her bath since before her 1st birthday because she wouldSit down on my husbands leg and pee while the tub was filling. Some times she stands right up and pees on the floor, sometimes she pews in the potty and sometimes she doesn’t pee at all. We don’t have plans of trying to potty train her yet and she really doesn’t show any sign of readiness, but at least she knows what to do when the times comes and is comfortable with the potty

Er

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My baby is 18 months and always pull her pants and swaddlers down to sit on our toliet.... she also knows when she poop poops, but idk if its a sign lol... i heard girls are easier than boys tho. I have a 9B, 3B, and then my 18 mth old, and in a few weeks a NB. So i will have two in diapers.

Al

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I brought a potty out for my first son as soon as he could sit on it himself, around 14/15 months. I kept it in the area we spent most of our time, usually I took his diaper off like 30 mins before the bath and let him run around naked. As soon as he started to pee somewhere I’d run him to the potty and he’d finish there. If I was really playing with him/paying attention he’d usually stop and look down right before he peed so I often got him to the potty for the entire thing. By 20 months he was trying to take his diaper off when he had to go and sitting on the potty by himself. I went with it and stopped diapers during the day, I just brought a potty in the car and put him on it every hour or so no matter where we were, he never sat there for long he knew just what to do. By 2 he self initiated going potty most of the time, unless he was really into something for a while then I would remind him. He took a little extra time with poop since he would poop in his night diaper. And now at 3.5 yo he still isnt night trained (pee) but most of my friends had their boys take longer at night 🤷🏼‍♀️I’ve never had any stress/ had to read a book/ struggled so I loved doing it this way, but I’m not afraid of a little mess either. I’m also home with them all day so it works for us. My 17 month old has been doing the same as his brother did, all good so far!