Ummm, Naomi went in the potty!

[LenaGardner]

Should I make an effort to potty train her? Because I haven't been! She will be 2 next week. She loves to take her diaper off and tell me peepee and poopoo, but I hadn't planned on potty training until January when we were scheduled to be stationed.

She took her diaper off a minute ago and in the time before I could get a new one on her, she peed just a tiny bit on the floor. And then looked and stopped and went, "Oh!" and we kind of just stood there and looked at each other for a minute and then I said, "Do you want to go peepee in the potty?" and she said yes so I went and put her on the toilet and she sat there about 20 seconds and then she went pee!

I'm not sure what to do! Should I buy her panties? A potty? Pull-ups? Do nothing? Wait? I have no experience with this because Nathan potty trained himself. When I went back to college, he came home from the sitter one day (age 2, 7 months) and told me he wanted to go pee in the potty. And he's been trained ever since, with a few early accidents.

[pewtertm]

I AM SO JEALOUS!!!

Rachel will be 3 in 2 weeks and still doesn't use the potty. She'll sit on it for a few minutes, but we can't get her to sit on it long enough for anything to happen. Add to that the fact that she doesn't clue us in until AFTER she goes, and she's still not very verbal. Sigh...diapers are getting pricey...I'm SO ready for her to decide to use the toilet.

[jessica31876]

she defenitely sounds like she is ready. I would get her some panties and reserve pull-ups only for nighttime use. I always hated pull-ups because they are just so much like diapers. But honestly if she is asking to use the potty and can identify both pee and poo and knows when she has to go she should be able to be potty trained.

[mommy2aria06]

My daughter will be 2 next month and she loves using the potty. I never "officially" started to potty train her- she just discovered she loved the praise she got when she went. Now she is so uncomfortable when she pees or poops in her diaper.

I would just get her a potty chair and encourage her when she uses it- we have ours in the living room so it is close. Now, not only does my daughter love using it but she even takes the potty part of the chair into the bathroom and dumps it in the potty herself. That is awesome that your daughter is showing interest!! Good luck!!

[newfiemountiewife]

Get her some panties! If she's willing to do it, go for it! Definitely don't push, but definitely encourage! All of mine were around 3 before they were trained, but mine never did this either! Good luck!

[amystoffel]

Sounds like she is ready on her own...and I am jealous!! My DS wasn't "ready" until he was 4....just would not do it!!! I say get some pull ups and some big girl panties!!!

[rach3975]

It's great that she's interested and ready to use the potty, but it doesn't mean that she's entirely ready to potty train. Definitely try it with her, but don't be surprised if her success is inconsistent right now or she loses interest. Some kids react well to being in underwear and willingly use the potty with only some accidents, but others feel like being in underwear is too much pressure and they really only want to experiment with the potty on their own terms for a while. (FWIW, I've always heard girls are easier to potty train than boys and typically do it earlier. My friends with girls seemed to believe it, and their daughters did train faster than the rest of our boys.)

DS1 started using the potty successfully at about 19 months, so I thought he'd be a breeze to potty train and all we had to do was put him in underwear or pullups and encourage him. Didn't work out that way. He went through periods when he was very interested in the potty, and others when he didn't want to use it. If I pushed or tried to make him use it during a period when he was less interested, it was guaranteed to backfire on me and lead to accidents and resistance on his part. It wasn't until he was 3 that he was really ready to potty train fully.

[breakingbrie]

That's awesome! My girls went pee in the potty a few times before they turned 2. We had a potty for them, and I just let them do it whenever they wanted, but we'd always let them sit on it right before their bath. They didn't get really into it until right before they turned 3. They're pretty well trained now(we do vinyl panties at naptime just in case) but they still wear a diaper at night. I've finally gotten brave enough to take them out in panties during the day, too. I think it was easier than I thought it'd be to train them because they had some experience already, and knew what the potty was for. I say go for it and get her her own potty, but if she doesn't seem ready for full on training, at least it will be there for her when she's ready.

[makabe]

I'd say she's ready!! I agree not to push her, just encourage and get her some cute underpants... I had my son in pull-ups for at least three months after he potty trained. He never had a daytime accident once he decided he was ready.

[Leila]

Follow her lead, Lena. If she expresses interest on Tuesdays, cool. If she's anti-potty on Fridays, cool. Go with what she's telling you through her actions and words. :thumbup: