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TOILET TRAINING AT AN EARLY AGE.. SAVES A LOT OF TROUBL E LATER ON

by celinchand

(October 2008) (rank 500+)

Hi, I have a 20 month daughter and she has been toilet trained since she is 3 months old, it took me 2 months of rigourous training and when she was 9 months old we stopped using nappies all together in the house and they were only used when we

went out. Many people are amazed when she goes out and asks to go to the toilet. so I thought I might share it here. the 2 months when I trained her, there was a lot of running to the toilet and alot of wet mummy, but 8 weeks is all it took, so no complains. Whenever my daughter would pee, I made a whislting sound, like soo... or something. in 8 weeks she started associating the sooo... sound with weeing. then the easy part. I would take her every hour to the toilet , make the sound and walaah... she would take a leak. When she was 9 months and was cooing around, she would make the sooo.. sound to indicate that I should take her for a wee... so she was completely trained even before she was 1 year old. I see all my friends struggling with their kids and I feel so bad for the little kids being forced to something they think is not natural. Although nappies are convenient, still we can use them when required and not make them a lifestyle. This would be a big help for the environment as well.

This is my personal advice, I did a lot of research on this before implementing it. I found its very easy on the child to learn anything early rather than late, and if we teach our kids to eat, drink, table manner, language, walk, run, sit then why not toilet manners as well, specially when its much easy to teach them at this age. I have had 100 percent success rate, and my child has never cried when I have asked her to go to the toilet. I have never faced problems of nappy rash, seeing rashes on my baby's bottom, which I think is very painful for a child.

I am just sharing this, as 8 weeks of hard work, saves a lot of embarrasment of bed wetting in a child when they grow. Their minds first learn to pee in a nappy and then when they are 2-3 years and their toilet training starts, they have to first unlearn to wee in the nappy and then start to learn to wee in the toilet. That's alot to ask from a child when the solution is really simple. This also saves alot of environment dump the nappies are responsible for. I love to think that in almost 2 years, I have gone through only 5 packets of hugges, so it was economical as well, saved me around 20 dollars each week in nappies, which was around 7000 dollars worth of nappies. And 7000 dollars in my pocket.

Hope everyone likes my experience. I would like to hear the reasons of mother's who vote against it, or think its wrong, I would like to know if there is a better way in which the child is not agitated when toilet training.

Thanks alot for reading.

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	October 2008 \| mcm

Re: TOILET TRAINING AT AN EARLY AGE.. SAVES A LOT OF TROUBL E LATER ON

I am planning to EC soon but wouldn't call it toilet training (more about reading baby's cues).

I started letting my 3rd child go nappy free at 18mths and he learned to go potty himself and gave up nappies fulltime at 25mths. Was fantastic and stressfree compared to training my eldest 2 who took months longer.

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	October 2008 \| winja

Re: TOILET TRAINING AT AN EARLY AGE.. SAVES A LOT OF TROUBL E LATER ON

i agree, this type of "toilet training" is more about training the parents to read cues, the baby actually doesnt learn to train until much later

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	October 2008 \| celinchand

Re: TOILET TRAINING AT AN EARLY AGE.. SAVES A LOT OF TROUBL E LATER ON

that's great, its actually what you said reading the baby clues of when he/she want to go to the toilet, and she didnt sit on the potty seat till she was almost 7-8 months before that I would just hold her in my arms and remove her nappy and let her wee. I let her go nappy free at 3 months, that's the only difference. But I never forced her or made her sit on the potty, she still uses her safety first pot, for the first week of starting it, it took some time to get used to it, but once I knew when she was making the face before the face ( a concentration kind of face and a bit figety) I would run to the toilet to catch the week, at times we would miss, but it surely didnt take long for her to understand and me to understand each other. Was easy from there.

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	October 2008 \| llmunchkin

Re: TOILET TRAINING AT AN EARLY AGE.. SAVES A LOT OF TROUBL E LATER ON

What a great article, I have read about this sort of toilet training, however not first hand. I believe that you should do whatever works for you and your child, and this certainly worked well for you - thanks for sharing ; )

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	October 2008 \| cassaustin

Re: TOILET TRAINING AT AN EARLY AGE.. SAVES A LOT OF TROUBL E LATER ON

Well done for being successful with it.

I have heard of it before, in fact, my stepmum started her first child toilet training when he was 5 months old. But when discussing it with her, she strongly advised me against toilet training too early. Her next 5 kids after her first were toilet trained at about 2ish - or when they showed signs of being ready. Her reasons being that the baby is not physically ready at that age.. They can't even sit up at that age, so why would you encourage them to try to go to the toilet. She said it took alot of time and patience and she was trying to do it with a baby who should have been enjoying looking at shiny objects and pulling faces at her, rather than being rushed to the toilet every 5 mins.

As i said, good on you for doing it, and to other mothers who would like to try it, and have the time, then i say go for it, i dont really see what could be wrong with it. But for me, i think i will wait till my son is telling me he is ready.

Thanks for sharing your story. Cass xox

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	October 2008 \| Kellzacar

Re: TOILET TRAINING AT AN EARLY AGE.. SAVES A LOT OF TROUBL E LATER ON

Hi there,

I have come across this before and I am sorry but I think that this is a very dangerous practice . . This can and often does lead to health problems later on in this child's life . . . I beleive that babies should be allowed to be babies, lets face it - they aren't babies for very long in the grand scheme of things . .

Cheers Kellz

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	October 2008 \| celinchand

Re: TOILET TRAINING AT AN EARLY AGE.. SAVES A LOT OF TROUBL E LATER ON

hi kellyzacar, how is it dangerous. I have an indan heritage, Kids over there, dont use nappies or huggies at all. The concept was not there even 5 years ago. None of the kids have any problems, including my own cousins. Would you like to send me link on why its dangerous. I do agree the family support back in india is alot so its not too hard to do it. But dangerous, this is the first time I am hearing it. And personally I dont think there is anything which a baby cant do. Its very convenient for the baby as well. Personally, i just think nappies are very unhygenic, why would I put something which has ammonia next to my baby's skin all day. Being a science student, I know how dangerous that is, and that's the reason of nappy rash as well, having ammonia next to the skin and the skin unable to breathe and fight the bacteria. But everyone is entitled to their opinion. For me nappy rash is mroe dangerous than early toilet training.

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	October 2008 \| cathbusymum

Re: TOILET TRAINING AT AN EARLY AGE.. SAVES A LOT OF TROUBL E LATER ON

I have 6 month old twins and a toddler and other kids as well. There's no way i could put this into practice. A nice idea tho but inpractical in some situations. All my kids have trained at 2 when they could say wee and poo. I think being patient and waiting 'til they are ready and can hold on to be the best. Like I said, a nice idea.

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	October 2008 \| neets

Re: TOILET TRAINING AT AN EARLY AGE.. SAVES A LOT OF TROUBL E LATER ON

it sounds good but I'm with winja I'm a single parent its so hard to find 5 minutes let alone 8 months.

interesting read all the same. I do understand the price for nappies that is why I use cloth.

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	October 2008 \| celinchand

Re: TOILET TRAINING AT AN EARLY AGE.. SAVES A LOT OF TROUBL E LATER ON

hi, I agree, it just takes more time, and not 8 months, its 8 weeks to be 90 percent trained, rest is practice with time, but then everything with a child takes time, and everything takes practise and persistence

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	October 2008 \| winja

Re: TOILET TRAINING AT AN EARLY AGE.. SAVES A LOT OF TROUBL E LATER ON

ive heard of this before.

i find it rather strange but well done for doing it and im glad it worked for you. im not sure how it would go for busy single parents tho with more than one child

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	October 2008 \| celinchand

Re: TOILET TRAINING AT AN EARLY AGE.. SAVES A LOT OF TROUBL E LATER ON

I did advise this way to one of my friends a few months back, she is also a single mother working, she practises this as much as she can, her kid was toilet trained in 4 months I think, her boy is 18 months and fully trained, hope that helps

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