Potty training!

Thank you I’ll have a look

We got a potty training chart with stickers, I left the potty in the living room and left his nappy off for the day and if he had accident I just said wee wee in the potty next time and showed him and let him sit on it, I asked him if he needed to toilet every 15 minutes sometimes more and he got it after 3 days, we use pull ups for night time as he’s still wetting a bit in the night x

I've just bought oh crap potty training book. I'm determined to be sorted by September. He knows exactly what to do but he still struggles pulling pants up and down so we are still at the nothing on bottom half stage. Its hard mama but you've got this. You honestly don't need to explain why you're starting late. Xx

We did a little bit of the oh crap method but much more laid back. We did naked from the waist down for about 3 days - day 1 you’re just hoping to catch a wee if you can, day 2 more encouragement and by day 3 hopefully getting them to wee on it when prompted (for us this had to be every 20 mins at first). We went straight into knickers after that as she was quite upset if she did a poo in her trousers lol. We used potties - one upstairs and one downstairs, mainly because for the first few weeks you have little to no notice that something is coming. She decided to switch to the toilet at around 4 months in. I didn’t pressure her cos I didn’t want to mess with the progress we’d made. There are lots of ways to do it but for us it just came down to patience and constant reminding.

Thank you all☺️ nervous to start but I Know we’ll get there in the end. What did you all do when going out? Did you use pull ups or just pants/knickers?x

@Abbie if you can do a few days at home and naked, even better. So they can see what’s happening, have no clothes to juggle with and don’t get confused by wearing something different out of the house. Try maybe like 3-4 days at home and see how that goes and then if you are going out let him choose, but definitely nappies in the car 😂. Don’t ask him if he wants to go to the toilet, just say: it’s been 30 minutes, let’s go potty. And take him with you when you go as well.

@VeraAh thank you, well he definitely won’t complain having a few days in a row naked 😂 did you put nappies back on over night or just completely naked the whole time? I’ve been debating getting those puppy pads just to try and save the sheets and mattress as much as possible

@Abbie overnight is hormonal change its not advised to train them now. We do nappies for naps and night but he’s dry for naps mostly x

The best thing we’ve done is have a full couple of days with no pants or knickers on. My daughter picked it up very quickly that way! She then struggled when we put pants on her so we took them off again for another day and she was fine

@Abbie nappies through the night for sure

We started by introducing our son to the potty just before bed or just before his shower/bath each night. Did that for a while. We also noticed that he was able to recognise when he was doing pees and poos in his pull up. Our summer began end of June (scotland) so I just waited till then and just went full on here are your pants 🙏 I then began reminding him/encouraging him and he now will tell us when he needs to go. We are around a month in. He had a few accidents the first two days but it's been massively successful so far. We bought stickers and a chart but he had no interest in it so we haven't used it. I stayed in the house with him for the first few days, then took a carry potty out with us 😊 pants everywhere. Definitely agree with others, spend some time just at home first