https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:33:12 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-started-potty-training#post-2109536 Sun, 15 Mar 2015 20:27:06 +0000 catomd00 2109536@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@QBbride: I read this recently and found it interesting. Obviously only one docs opinion, though...</p> <p><a href="http://www.babble.com/toddler/dangers-potty-training-early/" rel="nofollow">http://www.babble.com/toddler/dangers-potty-training-early/</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-started-potty-training#post-2109414 Sun, 15 Mar 2015 16:50:29 +0000 NovBaby1112 2109414@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@loveisstrange: this is the approach we are taking. </p> <p>LO is 28 months and is just not interested yet, so we are not pushing it. Hoping over the summer closer to 3 years old she will be ready, and hoping it will be an easy process if she is ready. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-started-potty-training#post-2109214 Sun, 15 Mar 2015 11:52:42 +0000 2littlepumpkins 2109214@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@loveisstrange: @QBbride: I don't subscribe to the view that there are any hard age limits on milestones, but here's the argument I read (although I swear I read it elsewhere.) I just google searched for this one.</p> <p><a href="http://www.babble.com/toddler/dangers-potty-training-early/" rel="nofollow">http://www.babble.com/toddler/dangers-potty-training-early/</a></p> <p>Dd is 2.5 and hasn't really started although she is showing readiness signs. I think it'll go quick when she is trained. I hope anyway! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-started-potty-training#post-2109208 Sun, 15 Mar 2015 11:47:49 +0000 meredithNYC 2109208@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Right about 30 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-started-potty-training#post-2109163 Sun, 15 Mar 2015 09:44:40 +0000 Crisark 2109163@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A will be 24months in three weeks and she's not ready.<br /> She's just starting to hide to poop, literally just started trying to pull her pants down just because. Within the year it'll happen when she's ready. She's my third so I've done it all, and it needs to be when they're ready. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-started-potty-training#post-2109159 Sun, 15 Mar 2015 09:39:38 +0000 ChelseaRose 2109159@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We trained just before he turned two. He made a lot of developmental progress at that time and within a few days acquired multiple signs of readiness. He was holding pee overnight a lot of the time (started around 20 months or so), told us every time he peed, knew he needed to poop in advance, started taking his clothes off, and had the language skills to let us know. We were really surprised he did this so early and decided to follow his momentum. We let him be naked the first few days and my day three he pooped on the potty and only had one pee accident. After two weeks he used regular public bathrooms and that was it. I really thought I'd potty train him the summer before preschool, but he had other ideas and was ready about a year before starting preschool. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-started-potty-training#post-2109153 Sun, 15 Mar 2015 09:18:08 +0000 chopsuey 2109153@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD - 23.5 months. Got it really quickly and was going #1 and #2 by herself by day 2.</p> <p>DS - 26.5 months. Took a little longer, but by day 3 he was running to pee by himself and by day 8 he was running to the potty when he needed to poop. </p> <p>I waited until both kids started showing readiness. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-started-potty-training#post-2109150 Sun, 15 Mar 2015 09:11:29 +0000 Smurfette 2109150@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We introduced the potty at 22 months and still at 24 months, she doesn't get. She thinks it is fun to sit on it but has only gone once, total fluke. We aren't going to rush her. I have a couple friends that pushed it and it has made it 100% harder for them and their LO. One still has major poop issues at 4. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-started-potty-training#post-2109148 Sun, 15 Mar 2015 09:08:31 +0000 erwoo 2109148@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With my oldest son, around 2.5 years old because I wanted him out of daytime diapers when his little brother was born. He wasn't fully night trained until he was around 4.5-4.75 years of age. My youngest son will be turning 3 at the end of the month and he has been on and off training himself for months now. However, only recently he has been wanting to wear underwear during the daytime; but still has moments like tonight when he had to pee really badly and REALLY wanted a diaper. I was asking why and he almost peed into his hands. Oops... I've been pretty relaxed with his potty training only b/c he's pretty stubborn, but I think he will get there, eventually. We've gone out 3x this past week in underwear (his idea) with bathroom stops successfully. So at least he's good with that while we're out. He still only wants to poop in his diaper. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-started-potty-training#post-2109143 Sun, 15 Mar 2015 08:45:00 +0000 Mrs. Tiger 2109143@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Introduced potty around 18m, encouraged use before baths, eventually at 3y he was waking up dry in the morning so we went to underwear cold turkey. He had a few accidents, but gas been great!</p> <p>#2 is 18m now and I plan to be laid back with him too :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-started-potty-training#post-2109140 Sun, 15 Mar 2015 08:41:19 +0000 yellowbird 2109140@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>28 months, I stayed home with her for a long weekend and that was that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-started-potty-training#post-2109138 Sun, 15 Mar 2015 08:40:37 +0000 autumnlove 2109138@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>26.5 months. We used the 3 day method for training and it worked out well for pee. She saved poop for nap or night diapers for a few months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-started-potty-training#post-2109133 Sun, 15 Mar 2015 08:27:23 +0000 Jess1483 2109133@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>27 months. I had intended to wait, but I think all the potty talk at preschool got him interested. His class is generally older (most have turned 3) and a lot of them are trained or training, so he got excited. Mommy isn't particula excited, but that might be because he woke up at 230 last night and called to go potty (night training was also his idea...) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-started-potty-training#post-2109132 Sun, 15 Mar 2015 08:27:21 +0000 Baby Boy Mom 2109132@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both kids trained at 22.5 months. I'm pretty sure there's a window around that time that is good. I also know a bunch of people that trained around 26 months so that's probably another good one. The first time was summer and I had a six week old at home; second time was dead of winter so we were just stuck at home. I mention that just because there's always something so when you decide to go for it just commit. The other thing is sort of managing expectations- since we trained earlier we've had a fair share of accidents and I needed to help them more with the pulling pants down etc (but I prefered that to having to deal with diapers). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-started-potty-training#post-2109115 Sun, 15 Mar 2015 07:53:22 +0000 yin 2109115@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I started at 16 months due to some pressure from my parents (little sis was trained at 15 months) and found the opportunity to have naked time at the end of summer. It was a failure, but it did introduce the potty to LO. He showed signs of readiness a few months before he turned 2, but I was pregnant and couldn't handle potty training. We trained at 26 months out of necessity because he was having issues with a horrible rash, and the only solution was to get out of diapers. It worked out really well, and he was trained within 2-3 days. I winged it and trained for night too, and it surprisingly worked. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-started-potty-training#post-2109109 Sun, 15 Mar 2015 07:44:51 +0000 oliviaoblivia 2109109@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We've had a potty for ages and she'd use it before her bath every so often. We had a good window right before #2 arrived but opted to not train then. We're working on it this weekend at 26 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-started-potty-training#post-2109106 Sun, 15 Mar 2015 07:36:04 +0000 regberadaisy 2109106@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She was trained around 26/27m. We felt she was ready and we had introduced the potty a long time ago. We actually missed the first "perfect" window because I was pregnant and tired.<br /> It took a week for her to be "trained" for day time. She's been dry overnight this round for about a month or two. We might try taking the overnight soon again but we'll see. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-started-potty-training#post-2109069 Sun, 15 Mar 2015 04:28:29 +0000 sorrycharlie 2109069@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We picked up a potty and just slowly introduced the idea of it, "peepee in the potty," letting her watch me, etc. around 2 years. She's 2.5 now and we've actually started letting her run naked for a while trying it out but it's still firmly accident territory. She popped in it once because I scooped her up and got her onto it in time, not because she wanted to. Lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-started-potty-training#post-2109063 Sun, 15 Mar 2015 03:30:55 +0000 Kemma 2109063@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started the learning process at around fifteen months (LO would run around outside in the nude and worked out she could pee on demand!) but we didn't start "training" until 27 months when Miss A decided she wanted to wear undies. We've now been working on toilet training since mid-January and the accidents are decreasing (usually only when LO holds on for too long) and she hasn't worn a daytime nappy for 5-6 weeks. Miss A definitely knows how it all works so I'm confident that she'll be done with the accidents pretty soon. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-started-potty-training#post-2109060 Sun, 15 Mar 2015 02:31:50 +0000 erinpye 2109060@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At around 25 months. She regressed about a month later for a few weeks, and then was trained. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-started-potty-training#post-2109059 Sun, 15 Mar 2015 02:22:18 +0000 QBbride 2109059@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS is 21 months and we've had a potty out for a few months. We're taking the no pressure approach but he loves peeing on the potty and gets super excited!! </p> <p>@loveisstrange: do you have any links to the information about potty training before 3 causin issues? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-started-potty-training#post-2109010 Sat, 14 Mar 2015 22:56:21 +0000 loveisstrange 2109010@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We've just been taking the laid-back route. She'll be 3 on April 3rd, we're planning on training this week. There's evidence that training before 3 can lead to potty issues later on, so I feel pretty okay with waiting. We introduced the concept at about 18 months, but we didn't feel the need to push it.</p> <p>I honestly don't think we're even going to have to train her. I think she's ready enough it's just going to happen. I didn't want it to be a fight and we were in no rush. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-started-potty-training#post-2109006 Sat, 14 Mar 2015 22:51:06 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 2109006@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>#1 @ 18 months because she wanted to. She potty trained but then regressed when sis was born at 21 months. Retrained at 24 months.<br /> #2 @ 20 months. She figured it out that weekend.<br /> #3 still firmly in diapers! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-started-potty-training#post-2108992 Sat, 14 Mar 2015 22:25:02 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 2108992@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We introduced a potty at 18 months and she would sit on it and we just kind of had her get used to the idea, and then at 25 months we got serious about having her go in the potty. At 26 months we focused on potty training hard core for 3 days and after that she was completely trained! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-started-potty-training#post-2108987 Sat, 14 Mar 2015 22:22:14 +0000 Mrs Hedgehog 2108987@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are unsure of when to start potty training. She isn't showing and signs of readiness yet but she also has never cared one bit if she is dirty or wry. She is still young (19 mo) so I doubt we are ready now anyway... What age did you start your LO and what made you decide it was time? </p>