Potty training - ready? Tips?

I'm stumped as to how to proceed with my daughter. She is turning 2 this week. For the past couple months, she has been expressing interest in the toilet. For about a month or so, she has occasionally used it. Most days, once or twice she will say she needs to go, so I'll take her and usually she does pee when this happens. However, she has never pooped in there, and the majority of pees are still in the diaper. She doesn't seem to mind being wet or dirty (I have to initiate diaper changes and she often says she doesn't want to, even if there's a poop so I have to insist). Her teacher at daycare suggested getting pull ups, so we bought a box yesterday and I also picked up some underpants. But I have no idea how to go about progressing from occasional pees in the toilet to full blown potty training, and I have doubts about whether she is actually ready to switch to pull ups at this time. Mama's who have done this - what do you think? Is she ready? If so, any tips and tricks / books / resources you would recommend? I was thinking about the 3 day thing (vaguely recall hearing about this) but my impression is that would be better in warm weather, once we have a free long weekend? That wouldn't be until may 2-4 probably. Thanks in advance for any thoughts!!

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Read "oh crap! potty training" all questions are answered there and they give step by step instructions. Your daughter won't be unhappy with being wet with both diapers and pull ups since they absorb all the pee. For potty training you'll need to start bare bum, and then pants and then eventually underwear. Good luck!!

Ok, so from a child development behavior specialist 'If she doesn't mind being wet or dirty then she isn't quite ready'. There is a lot of pressure these days about getting started once they're 2, but from a development perspective they're actually 'ready' more around 2.5 for things to happen faster and more smoothly. The fact that she is initiating some of the time already is Great news! It would be really good to just keep following her lead 😃

@Tasha-Lee thanks for this! I think that's what my gut is saying too, I would not push her to do it right now I just wasn't sure since she has been eager to proceed. Maybe I'll keep trying to slow walk it at her pace

We did the 3 day method. I highly recommend the oh crap potty training book. We didn’t do pull ups or anything, just dropped the diapers and then did underwear. My daughter was ready really early though. She would want to be changed as soon as she pooped and had a lot of control. Like she wouldn’t poop unless we were home and would hold her pees when we were getting ready for bathe time until we were in the shower. She was ready a few months before we did it, only because I was pregnant and wanted to get out of the newborn stage. We did it at 25 months and it was May. Just get the book. It explains everything. Stick to it and it’ll be good.

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