Potty Training

For many, potty training is a huge and unpleasant step, both for parents and children. Here is how we plan to avoid the stress and make it part of everyday life.

As soon as our little guy could sit up well we began his potty training. Yep, he was 5 months old and that may seem crazy but trust me it works. So we began by sitting him on the pot when we changed his nappy. Every time we changed him he would sit on there for 30 seconds or so, so that he could begin to associate the nappy with the potty. After a week or so we could see a pattern emerging with his toileting so we changed the times we routinely changed him to be after milk or food. You can imagine the surprise when just 7 days after we began our little man had his first achievement! From there on out we have had more and more success to the point that one month and a week after first putting him on his potty he now succeeds at least 3 times per day. The idea now is to continue as we are until he is walking comfortably around 14 months then take off the nappy and hope for success. I’ll keep you posted...

Let me know what you think or what your experience of potty training was like.