She has peed on the potty before, and will let you know when she has a wet or dirty diaper. She is getting heavy {almost 30lbs} and I have a bad back so changing her is getting interesting.
Noah will be 18 months at the end of this month and we're almost at 100% at home (sometimes he gets freaked out by poop). So, i say - No, she's not too young!
Once he seemed really interested, we just brought the potty in and sat him on it occasionally when we had to go or when it seemed like he should have to go. This wasn't even once a day - it was just whenever so he'd get used to the idea.
Then we progressed to putting him on it whenever we thought he should need to go on a regular basis. Now he runs naked through the house, goes when he needs to and then tells us he has gone. We diaper him for bed, but if we run straight for the potty when he gets up then he's dry. And we diaper him for outings, but as long as he goes before we leave and we sit him on it as soon as we get home - then he's usually dry too.
Our catch is going to be introducing clothes again b/c he doesn't tell us until after he's already finished.
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I was at a daycare show a few years ago and there was a lady there who started her own company that specifically was to help potty train. I remember her saying that once they are a certain age the muscles are developed so they are capable they just need to show interest. It sounds like your daughter is interested. Here is that lady's website. toilettips
Kyan is 2 now and he's showed signs for a while that he is getting towards that "interested" stage. He's able to tell me when he needs changed, he doesn't like having a dirty or wet diaper, and he can go all night (if we cut liquids by a certain time before bed) without peeing 95% of the time. My only reason for not potty training at this time is that:
1. It's starting to get towards fall/winter and I don't want to potty train him then because of the added stuff with winter clothes and having accidents and things and changing clothes and what not. I'd prefer to start in Spring so that I can let him go naked or in just a shirt if need be.
2. My cousins and Jared's brother had issues where they were trained too early and they had problems with bed wetting until they were almost 10. Now with my BIL it was mostly psychological. Jared has told me stories about him helping him change sheets or him doing it himself or just laying towels down or something at night because how his mother would berate his brother for doing it and he didn't want to hear it and be embarassed because she told everyone as a way of "breaking" him. I would prefer to wait a little longer so that we can communicate enough that he really is potty ready.
3. I want to have another baby and I really don't want to train him close to a change in life like a new baby and have him relapse.
I don't know if little girls have urinary problems if trained to early or not but I do know that they do have you watch them to make sure they don't get UTI's when they're trained early because of improper wiping and things. You might want to ask your Pedi about training and things from a medical point.
Ds was close to 2 1/2 when he started.....we showed him the potty, told him what it was for, much of the time we brought him in when one of us had to potty (usually me) and had him sit on the potty to show him what was done on it. It helped that his sitter has a daughter who is potty training too....but gradually over the months he's gotten it to where he only has an accident once in a while. It just depends on the individual child. At 2, ds didn't get it but at 2 and 4 months he started getting it lol.
Eventually he just somehow started telling us when he had to go pee, (sometimes after the fact, so we told him where it goes as we changed him). We let him run around a lot without a diaper and we did have a few accidents, but mostly he realized that "oh man, no diaper, what do I do?" Then he started realizing he had to go to the potty. Poo took a little longer (he wanted a diaper for poo.....which we obliged and told him where it needed to go, had him go with us as we shook the stuff mostly into the potty.
He does really really really well now like I said.
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I think little kids are curious about the bathroom and parents using it. Kyan knocks down the door to get in with us. We also have a few books on potty training, Caillou and a Muppet Babies "No More Diapers" book and he loves reading them and saying "potty!" so I'm hoping that seeing his favorite characters doing it will help him want to do it.
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