Potty Training Advice 22 Mo Daughter

I have three girls one that is 1, 3 and 5. My girls love stickers so each time they went pee pee in the potty we gave them one. Plus they do not get candy only at parties. I would give them one each time they went potty. Also, every time you go even at night take her. I normally start my girls when they are 2 by 2 1/2 they have it down. I jump for joy and do the happy dance with them and they love to be rewarded. It works for us..good luck.

M.

When we potty trained our 2.5 year old, we did what many think is wrong, but it worked. We put a 10 dollar potty chair in front of the TV. It wasn't a big deal to him to sit on the potty in fronmt of the TV until he went. We put him on it about once an hour. We then bought the potty seat that fits on the toilet seat as well as a fold up version for the diaper bag. We did NOT use pullups except for going out and sleeping. The better he got at not having accidents, we encouraged using the bathroom and going at the store. Once he would go in the bathroom we just removed the potty from in front of the TV. Then we stopped putting him in pull ups to go out and now pack extra clothes. We still use pullups at naptime (walmart brand) but buy the Huggies nighttime pullups for night because he still wets while sleeping. Good luck, it sounds like she is ready to be a big girl!

Kinderplatz, our pre-k school suggested to parents that training pants confuse children. So we stopped putting our daughter in them. That seemed to do the trick, plus we put her on the potty before and within 1 hr after a meal, whether she did anything or not. 9 times out of 10, she would potty--suggest reading a book on the pot to them. Good Luck!

We have hard wood & tile only (our rugs are cheap, so when all the potty training is over, we can get new ones), so if you don't want to ruin your carpet, try the running around naked-thing outside.

I used the 3 day potty guide and my daughter was pee potty trained in 3 days. She was older, but the guide suggested you do this when they are 22 months old. So she is the perfect age. Throw away all diapers and just use big girl panties (no plastic panties). Get at least 15 pairs you need to stay with her at all times for the next three days so do it when have the time to devote. When you see her start to pee on herself run her to the potty. Clean her up and tell her all day long don't forget to let me know when you have to go potty. At night again no pull ups or plastic covers if she has a accident clean it up. It does cause for a lot of laudry and patients, but after 3 days she will be potty trained. I didn't believe it, but it worked for us. I stopped giving her anything to drink two hours before she went to sleep and we only had one accident at night. After the 3rd day she was fully pee potty trained. Now poop was a little harder, but you follow the exact steps, but make sure you tell her poop is yucky and it goes in the potty. After she poops in her panties rush her to the potty lift her over the toliet and dump it so she will know where it goes. This took us 2 1/2 months, but my daughter got scared going poop in the potty so it set us back.

I don't have much advice, since we recently started too. But your daughter sounds ready! I think she may just need motivation. When DD sits on the potty, she gets a coin for her piggy bank. We have a bowl of change in the bathroom, so we don't forget. Just yesterday I made up a chart that is posted in the bathroom. Whenever she "makes the potty come out", she gets to put a sticker on the chart. (Previously, we would just give her a 2nd coin.) There are 40 spaces on the chart to represent a pack of diapers that we didn't have to buy. When she fills the chart she gets $8 (about the cost of one pack) to buy a special toy or whatever she chooses. This may all be a little too complex for her, but at least she enjoys the stickers.

Now I just need to work on learning those signals. Lately (about the past week) she has been going and then sticking her hands in her diaper, and going "eww gross".

I dont really have any advice but to say that it definitely sounds like she is ready! My son is 21 months and I have just started putting him on the toilet so he gets used to the idea of sitting on there. I keep hoping I will catch him at the right moment and then we will get a BIG treat! From what my cousin says it takes patience and a lot of mess ups first! :) good luck

HAVE SOME PATIENCE!!!!!! You can bend over backwards, and stand on your head to try to get a baby potty trained, but only she can do it when she is good and ready! Stop pulling out your hair and appreciate and love your child no matter if they are potty trained at 2 1/2 or 4! I get so tired of mothers thinking they have some control over these little milestones. Your wasting precious time that you could be having fun with your child instead meeting some silly deadline to have your child potty trained!! Relax, it'll happen with or without you!

Peace, Love and 3 babies (all under 5 yrs.) Two are potty trained and I did absolutely nothing to get them there, except for loving them and encouraging them constantly...only with love everything else will just fall into place!!!!
M. M.

We potty trained my son at 22 months b/c he was showing similar readiness signs. My advice: don't use pull ups or diapers at all if you are thinking to potty train- it sends a mixed message. Just use training underwear and (for the car) rubber pants and a waterproof potty mat on the carseat. We were through potty training in 2 weeks, whereas most of my friends took 8-12 months or longer using pullups or back and forth with diapers and undies...
Also- instead of putting her on the potty at certain intervals, you should watch her body language and learn the signs that she really has to go. My son got so annoyed with having to sit on the potty, or me asking him all the time if he needed to go. It was all downhill once I learned his signals, because then he's go right away when we got to the potty because he really needed to. Plus I didn't have to remind him all the time, I just took him. I've heard that boys have more accidents than girls b/c they get too involved in playing to stop and go to the bathroom, but his signals are so second-nature to me now, if he tries to keep playing and I see those signs I just make him pause the activity and he goes. Most of the time he just goes on his own, but knowing his body language really helps when he tries to hold it so he won't miss out.

Hi P.,

I used to teach preschool and my class was you guessed it the potty training class. In my experience putting her in underwear is the best way to transition her. Still use pull ups or diapers at bedtime but during the day deffinitley putting her in underwear. It is messy if they have an accident but they will only have a couple before they are full steam ahead. I had a little girl that was in pull ups for months and as soon as they started letting her wear underwear she was trained.