When to start potty training?

Question

I have a 20 month old, he is still in diapers and still on a bottle. I was wanting to take him off the bottle and out of diapers before I pop, I am due anytime, and the doc said to wait until after the baby comes as he might regress. Months ago we brought in a potty chair, but it seems that he only wants to go potty with us, and wants to help us clean up (which we dont let him), he also knows when he wants a bottle at bed time and likes to help make it. I feel that he is too old for this, but the further I got in this pregnancy the harder it got to work with him so I have put it off. My question is I wondered if others think this is the right thing to do and wait until after I have the baby and get into a routine? I also have older kids, 14 and 10 years who help me out so much.

Answer 1

Around 2 is a good time to start potty training. I have a 25 month old who is not ready I still try but he insists on sitting on the potty chair with his diper. It is not an easy job but just intrduce it he will get the hang of it.

Answer 2

If he is ready to try with you let him.  I know it is hard when you are pregnant and he might regress, but telling him not now when he wants to try only confuses him and if he is going to regress it will be from the developmental place he is at.  Thus a child on a cup and potty becomes a child who has accidents and wants his siblings bottle.  A bottle child with diapers becomes.  Cuddle me during bottle feedings and the diaper changing fusses are back.  Regression is a fact of growing up and you can not avoid it by holding your child back.  Ask the older kids to help and to take him under wing.  

Have him give his bottles to his new sibling and ask him to make them for her/him.   If you are going to try breast feeding have him give them to the "bottle fairy"  who passes on used bottles to babies who's mothers can not breast feed.

Answer 3

Don't do it based on what works for you it has to be when he is ready.  If he can't hold it for 2 hrs, tell you when he has to potty and pull his own pants up and down he will have a hard time pottytraining successfully and will get frustrated as will you.  I would throw out the bottles though there is no reason for a toddler to have a bottle so I agree he needs to get rid of that as that is going to make pottytraining even worse because he is having something left of being a baby so he will feel more like a baby.

Answer 4

When your child begans to talk.

Answer 5

He's almost two, take him off the bottle, no matter how much he wants it. It could mess up his teeth, just like a pacifier. Teach him to say, "I gotta go Pee!" or p**p, or whatever works for you, when he has to pee. Walk him to his potty, set him down, and let him do his business. Soon, he'll realize he needs to use that thing whenever he needs to go, and he'll stick with the situation. I babysit alot, and my little cousin Kinsley, is off the bottle, starting to potty train, she doesnt even like pacifiers, even when she was a baby baby, and she is only 14 months old. My other little cousin Max, pretty good with pottying on the potty, no pacifier, in the big boy bed, drinks out of sippy cups, and sometimes, cups with no lid. and he turns 3 in october. So yes, potty train him now, take him off the bottle, give him sippy cups, soon, you'll have a wonderful little boy.

Answer 6

We weaned our daughter off the bottle when she was 10-11 months old. We just took it away and re-placed with sippy cup. Don't remember have too much problems.

Our daughter was 2-3 months pass her 3rd birthday when she finally decided to potty train....I thought it would never happen. She peed on the pot and I made a big deal and she has been peeing and pooing since. She now announce when she has to go :) it's cute. Just do what ever one told me, wait till they are ready. As for the bottle...might as well wait. If you try to take it away now, he may steal his baby bro/sis bottle. My sister did that. She was a year old when my mom had the 3rd and she had just weaned my sister off the bottle, out popped the 3rd and my sister would steal the bottle when mom wasn't looking.

Good Luck!!!!

Answer 7

Congratulations on the baby and thanks for your question!  I never believe in putting off potty training, I also believe that somewhere between 18 months and 2 1/2 almost all kids are totally ready to train.  In fact I started potty training my son 7 weeks before I had a baby.  It is true that the stress/excitement/change of routine usually causes a child to have accidents, but it is much easier to train before than after.  If I were you, I would make a plan for what to do about accidents once the baby is born, so your son doesn't get "un-trained".  Teach your kids how to deal with cleaning up accidents and make them promise not to put him in diapers or pull-ups while you are busy with the newborn, maybe have a "clean-up bucket" with gloves, a towel, and carpet spray, have cheap underwear that can be thrown away if necessary.  Anyway, don't let your toddler know about this, hopefully you'll never need to use it.  If you are prepared, when the routine settles down in a few weeks, the accidents will go away and if you have avoided pull-ups, you won't have to re-potty-train.

To get you started see the best answer to this question.  It sounded harsh to me at first and I cringed at the idea of letting a kid run naked, but the value is that the mom didn't debate with her kids or bribe them to potty train, she taught them how, let them learn through trial and error, didn't confuse them by using diapers, cleaned up accidents with a smile, and effectively trained 5 kids all in less than a month.  Every parent I know who has potty trained quickly has used a similar method.

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Answer 8

Really there are no ill effects on a child as a result from when you potty train from one year to five years old. As mentioned earlier, when he gets it, he gets it. They key is to not get frustrated with him and to do it whenever it is convenient enough for you to spend the time on him. I honestly think it would be easier before the new baby, cause the baby will be a LOT of work at the beginning. But if you are willing to wait until the baby is older to work on it, then that could work too. If you are putting him in daycare, you will of course have an age limit to when you can potty train.

Answer 9

As soon as he can understand what you are saying when you talk to him, and when he can walk.

Answer 10

his not much more than a baby  if he no,s when his pooing then that's the time but  i think his to young

Answer 11

I tried to give my kids knowledge about the subject and let them try when they wanted to.  I explained that we go potty on the toilet and that is the only place it should go.  I researched and found a very sturdy stool with sides for the toilet so they could hold and be totally safe.  http://www.amazon.com/Elite-Child-Corpor...

This stool helped them relax and it made them interested in trying to go.  It made all the difference for my kids and was well worth it.  Hope this helps.