Potty training new mom advice

The oh crap potty training book is a helpful tool.

I definitely recommend the Oh Crap Potty Training book, too. I read it and feel much more confident. I'm starting this Friday, so I can't attest to how well it works, but I've heard great things about the method, and reading the book will definitely make you feel more prepared and confident.

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Coming from a mom who is currently on week 3 of potty training my 2.5 girl, we tried 2 separate times when she was younger and decided it was best to revisit and I am so glad we did because this time around by day 3 everything was clicking for her. Start on a weekend when you have nothing going on. Get the potty seat, step stools, stickers, pull-ups, undies all that ready to go. I did do lots of previous research including the oh crap book. I decided to take bits and pieces from everything I've read and make it work for our life. We started with just undies and a shirt, every 30mins she would sit on the potty until I could get a idea on just how often she actually needed to go you have to watch them like a hawk and learn her cues. Keep the carpet cleaner, clorox wipes and paper towels handy, clean up accidents while she is on the potty. Potty training is a long process, you both are learning, expect delays and regressions not perfection. Don't forget to celebrate the wins.

My son was willing to hop on the potty at around two but never went until a few months after. Over Christmas break we just put him in underwear and took him potty constantly and offered stickers and chocolate chips as rewards. He was potty trained 3 days later!

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I felt exactly the same. I just took him every 30 mins, didn’t matter if he showed signs or not. By day 3 I could read his cues and he had it down. Just be consistent, and once you start, do NOT revert back to diapers. I gave ours away so I had no choice. 1 seems kind of young, but I know old school moms did it as young as 1. Good luck .

We did pretty much one thing from what everyone has said above. It’s not a 3 day process and you’re done. It’s not a week process and your done. If anyone has had that success amazing for them. Don’t beat yourself over it. Here’s my list and what our timeline looked like : 1. If we were home we were naked on the bottom. 2. We had a toddler seat on the big toilet and a little toilet in whatever room we were playing in. 3. She helped me pack away all the diapers and give them away. 4. We said goodbye to her changing table. 5. We let her pick out her new underwear. 6. Major debatable, but it worked for us. We used pull ups in public until she would ask us to go pee in public herself instead of us always asking to go sit on the potty. 7. Kept travel potty’s in both cars. (Still keep them there and we pull over 100% of the time she says she needs to go potty so she learned to trust us) 8. Never scolded for an accident, we always talked calmly about it and what we could have done.

9. One day the light bulb clicked and she never looked back. 10. We did do a sticker chart and there was a potty treasure chest she could choose from at the end of the week when she got all her stickers. If she had accidents she didn’t get all of her stickers and could not get a prize. This only took one-2 weeks for her to never have another accident. Haha. We also made sure the prizes were bigger prizes. I had gone after Christmas and did clearance shopping for some larger toys that I knew would be motivating. She was 2.5 on Valentine’s Day and has been fully trained for a little over a month except for night time. She still sleeps in our bed so pull ups it is until she’s dry every morning haha.