MSE Parent Club - Part 2

SusanC_2

I can see Alice trying the doors if we had a five door car - she's obsessed with doors at the moment. She's always shutting the room doors and opening the fridge and the washing machine. She likes to pick up eggs and shout, "Eggs!"

carlamagee

need som advice ladies....
have a 15 month old daughter. am 4 months pregnant. was thinking about maybe trying to potty train my daughter in the summer, so she be around 18 months, so that she may be toilet-trained and i do not have to bjy two different sets of nappies when baby comes along......but am worried that it i may put her off!??

any opinions/advice welcomed!!

chocaholic110

SusanC wrote: »

I can see Alice trying the doors if we had a five door car - she's obsessed with doors at the moment. She's always shutting the room doors and opening the fridge and the washing machine. She likes to pick up eggs and shout, "Eggs!"

Tom actually climbs inside the fridge and helps himself to yoghurts or fruit puree then holds them out to us and says "Ey?". Can't walk or talk yet but can let his wants be known!

tsstss7

carlamagee wrote: »

need som advice ladies....
have a 15 month old daughter. am 4 months pregnant. was thinking about maybe trying to potty train my daughter in the summer, so she be around 18 months, so that she may be toilet-trained and i do not have to bjy two different sets of nappies when baby comes along......but am worried that it i may put her off!??

any opinions/advice welcomed!!

Hi Carla

My boy is 15 mths too and I am now starting to loosely toilet train - by which I mean we have a potty and every now and again he practices sitting on it.:D . It's too soon for him to do any more than that but as I had my ds1 potty trained at around 18 mths I know it is possible.

My plan is to wait for him to be more interested in the toileting process before trying to encourage him to actually deposit a present or two for me in the potty. He's certainly interested in the toilet at the mo so hopefully he'll soon be interested in what goes into it other than his toys and all the other movable objects in the bathroom:p . (I now have a toilet lock so fortunately no more of that fun activity for my ds lol).

My main advice would be to take it easy if you do try - try not to put your LO under pressure to perform as then you may well put him off the whole process but other than that there is no reason why you can't at least try to teach him. Good luck!

chocaholic110

My DS was also toilet trained by 18 months but DD was nearer two - the only thing she was slower at doing, and even then she still had the odd accident!

Sami_Bee

SusanC wrote: »

I can see Alice trying the doors if we had a five door car - she's obsessed with doors at the moment. She's always shutting the room doors and opening the fridge and the washing machine. She likes to pick up eggs and shout, "Eggs!"

Chris does the "Eggs!!" thing too not sure what that is about
They are funny little things aren't they!


Nadnad last resort before you have another what about a dog?

otherwise I'm afraid you're just gonna have to move to somewhere with more local children:D

Sami_Bee

carlamagee wrote: »

need som advice ladies....
have a 15 month old daughter. am 4 months pregnant. was thinking about maybe trying to potty train my daughter in the summer, so she be around 18 months, so that she may be toilet-trained and i do not have to bjy two different sets of nappies when baby comes along......but am worried that it i may put her off!??

any opinions/advice welcomed!!

I've not attempted to potty train Chris (2yrs old) as he just doesn't seem ready although I would love to not be changing 2 sets of nappies when bump arrives.

The only thing I can say is all the advice I see says you shouldn't try to introduce anything new in the last trimester as they tend to forget it when baby arrives

Mazcabs

What is it with men. I'm generally the one who puts LO to bed and have got him really good at going to sleep on his own in cot. Tonight I wanted to watch one programme so got OH to do it and of course LO was playing up. So after he has cried a couple of times he has just gone up and gone to sleep with him in our bed !!! Grrrrr, how to undo all my good work in one go!

Got a letter about doing a 2 day course at work (overnight stay) but I'm never gonna be able to do it as OH doesnt do nappies and gets up at 5 for work in the mornings and Lo's nursery opens at 7! Reshuffling of childcare I think !

heather38

it's not that they forget it's that they regress, when alex was born kennedy wanted to be held and cuddled a lot more and she got more baby like.
she's 2 and 4 months and we've not started yet, she has a potty and plays with it but wont use it so we're waiting for the summer so she can run around naked!

Curious_George_2

we have a potty so DS (15 months) can sit on it and get used to it but ive not started yet,
I potty trained DD during the summer when she turned 2, so she was running about in pants when it was nice and warm, i remember it being quite a simple process... and once she got the idea we didnt really have many accidents,

bear in mind though, i took time out and really concentrated on getting her potty trained, my sister rushed her DD to try and get her out of nappies early, totally messed it up and my niece was having toilet problems well past her 4th birthday...