Need your opinions about potty training!
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Need your opinions about potty training!
| Fri, 05-21-2004 - 12:32am |
I have no experience potty training a boy....both my dd are 15yrs old and 11yrs old and my son is 19 months old. I had no trouble with the girls...trained in a week with the both of them. I am expecting a baby in July and would like to start potty training my son...do you think it's possible to potty train at 19 months or should I wait til he is actually 2yrs old to introduce it. I really don't want to wait til the baby is born because he might totally refuse the idea because his whole world will be rocked. I have no idea what to do....if you have any suggestions, I would GREATLY appreciate them!!!
Kim

Also, I don't think any pregnant mother should worry about potty training a toddler. She has enough on her plate just being pregnant and being a mother to a toddler. Another thing, most pregnant women don't want to admitt it (I didn't either), but emotions DO run high when you are pregnant, and you don't want it to affect your son's psychological health (not that it definitely would, but you hear enough extreme cases involving a potty training toddler, you don't want to be in any situation that can escilade to being compareable to these nightmares).
Also, I don't think post pardom mommies should have to potty train a toddler! LOL Sounds kinda like you have to choose one over the other, huh? If I were you, I'd wait until your baby was around 6 months old before trying to potty train a toddler. One time when I was trying to (unseccessfully) potty train my DS after my DD was born, DH came home from work and I was almost in TEARS. He asked me what happened, and I started to tell him how much I HATE POOP!! My DS had taken his training pants off, and probably three different times, left piles on the floor in the SAME day, one time he had walked in it and smooshed it into the carpet and smeared it all over the room. In the middle of that, I was convienced that my new baby had absolutely NO USE for a diaper, because no matter what I did, she pooped up to her ears ANYWAY, several times a day. PLUS, I was still wiping my preschooler's butt because I was conveinced it was better to do that, than to have HER with poop all over! LOL It was HORRIBLE! You know what DH did? He LAUGHED at me!!! I swore, if I had a messy diaper right then, I would have thrown it at him, and not nicely EITHER!! LOL I felt like I had my hands in poop all day, so should he! UGH! I'm sure it wouldn't have seemed so horrible if I wasn't still so emotional after having a baby.
If you'd wait unti he was closer to 2 1/2, then the baby won't be so little, and 2 1/2 isn't very old at all to start potty training. He will be more likely to be ready for it too. BTW, I completely agree with the stereotype that boy's are more difficult to potty train than girls. Girls want to be like Mommy, boys usually can't care less. Both of my girls were interested in potty training at a much younger age than my DS. BUT, when it came down to it, he potty trained rather easily...just a little older than my girls were.
HTH!
Angie
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