<p>Just wondering how many have done this? We used this technique and was successfully rewarded with full night sleeps. We had MILs working on this and was essentially done before he was 12 months. </p>
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<p>We didn’t do it from birth. But when my son was 3, I removed his diaper, told him he knows where the potty is and if he needs to go - to use it. He went diaperless for a week, except at bedtime, and he was completely trained within that week. He only had 2 accidents. We did the same thing with our daughter right when she turned 2, and she only had one accident. It was amazingly easy.</p>
<p>Mind you, I stayed home with them that entire training period. I didn’t want to have to put a diaper on them to go out and send mixed messages before they got the hang of it. Then we went straight to underwear.</p>
<p>They wore pullups at night for a little while, but in both cases were dry at night within a few months. I think I got very lucky in that department. :)</p>
<p>I remember reading back in the 80’s that Chinese daycare institutions then were doing this - putting babies on the pot and training them to go at certain times. The other example is tribal women who carry baby on their hip all day and learn when to hold them away and not get peed on.<br>
Training was done much earlier a generation ago in our country, back when diapers were a smelly horrible chore and kids got rashes and wet diapers hurt! We have a picture of my sister sitting on a potty chair at 12 months, with a stack of picture books in her lap. My mother claims she was trained by 14 months. Of course she still reads in the john!</p>
<p>Read the article- using the public restroom sink?! Who sanitizes after them? These parents are not toilet training, and are spending a large amount of time focusing on elimination. It could work for some, but not for every child- some can’t control their bladders when asleep, etc. I liked the pediatrician’s comments.</p>
<p>The pediatrician and experts are all wet. Their research is either flawed or we have an exceptional child. </p>
<p>Economics and convenience played a huge role. We couldn’t afford disposable diapers and clothe was acceptable but time consuming. Finding the right diet helps too…NO BEANS!</p>
<p>My children were trained in a week, exactly as Oregoinianmom’s kids were (also at ages 2-3). Stay home and concentrate on the task.</p>
<p>But there is a huge difference training a two or three year old, and expecting an infant to be trained. Toddlers understand cause and effect more, can respond to rewards, comprehend more language. The developmental needs of babies are different, and we need to parent them differently, as a result.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t do this with an infant, but then again, I didn’t believe in Dr. Ferber’s “crying it out” method either. Infants need responsive mothers, not ubercontrol.</p>
<p>I think it’s another side effect of the “my child is better than yours” syndrome. Sure we could spend months training an infant to go on schedule, but why? You can spend months or weeks training a child who isn’t ready, or wait until they are and it can take a week or a day. This competitiveness with starting kids to toilet train in infancy, listen to classical music in the womb and read before nursery school is all for the parents.</p>
<p>This trend goes in waves - llike all the other trends in parenting. When my daughter was a baby all the media called it potty timing. I agree that it is another case of “my child is better than yours”. If this works for you, then great. Personally, I had no trouble potty training around two and a half years old.</p>
<p>“Isis Arnesen, 33, of Boston, has a 14-week-old daughter, Lucia, who is diaper-free. She said it can be awkward to explain the process to people, such as when she helped Lucia relieve herself in a sink at a public restroom.”</p>
<p>I was appalled by this statement.
I hope this is just an anomaly unique to Lucia and not part of the “process”.</p>
<p>Has anyone else noticed a correlation between parental desire/encouragement of precocity in their children and boundary issues? Just because your (rhetorical “your”) child is “advanced” at the age of 12 mo. to make it to the toilet <em>most</em> of the time without a diaper, does not give you the right to rude, disgusting, unsanitary, and overall anti-social behavior. In other words, I don’t want your child taking a dump in the sandbox; I don’t want him squatting in the mall and making a mess on the floor, and I don’t want him using the public sink where I wash my hands to relieve himself. Even though he makes you proud. It’s repulsive. Think about someone other than yourselves. If it’s only one out of ten times that he relieves himself in a public place- that’s enough to require a diaper.</p>
<p>Geez, we don’t allow horses to do this in the street; why should we allow humans?</p>
<p>My kids was potty trained before your kid. Na na na na na.</p>
<p>Like Oregonianmom and Allmusic, I didn’t encourage my kids to train until late, and then it was accomplished quickly – within days, really – except for one important glitch.</p>
<p>In both kids’ cases, they had somehow “trained” themselves to have bowel movements (while wearing a diaper) only while standing up. It proved to be very difficult for them to break this habit. They simply couldn’t “go” in a seated position. </p>
<p>One child was able to make the transition to sitting-down bowel movements within a few weeks (with the aid of a laxative provided by the pediatrician). The other couldn’t do it for a year and a half. We tried – over and over again – but it didn’t work. It only led to bouts of very painful constipation.</p>
<p>This child went to nursery school without a diaper and slept without a diaper, but found it necessary to ask for a diaper when the time came for a bowel movement because of the need to stand up. </p>
<p>It is said that children never go to kindergarten without being fully trained, no matter what approach you take. This one came within a few months of proving that principle wrong. Full training, including bowel movements on the toilet, didn’t happen until 4 1/2, and the child started kindergarten less than six months later.</p>
<p>If I had it to do over again, I think I would have started the training earlier in order to avoid this awkward development.</p>
<p>“My children were trained in a week, exactly as Oregoinianmom’s kids were (also at ages 2-3). Stay home and concentrate on the task.”</p>
<p>Same here. No great drama, no difficulties. Slightly different age ranges, though. Younger daughter was 2 years and one week, where son was 2 years and 7 months.</p>
<p>You all must have one of those memory books for your babies- because I don’t even remember when mine were potty trained (I know…I’m a bad mom for not keeping the book :() All I know is it wasn’t a day too soon- I had two in diapers at the same time!</p>
<p>"You all must have one of those memory books for your babies- because I don’t even remember when mine were potty trained (I know…I’m a bad mom for not keeping the book "</p>
<p>I did keep the book, for all three. To ease my guilt about being a working mom.</p>
<p>Doubleplay, you’re exactly right. It is selfish & repulsive. Yet some parents actually brag about early potty training. Usually that kid is constantly wetting the bed at night & having daytime accidents. My definition of being trained was 100% dry & accident free --all the time. A kid who wears pull-ups is not trained; he’s still in the process.</p>
<p>It really matters not if your kid is in diapers past the average age. Although with my son, I often wondered if he’d be wearing them to the office as an adult. He was that resistant & uninterested in “big boy pants!” He hit his fourth birthday & wasn’t able to enroll in any of the YMCA non-mommy classes, like preschool cooking & “carpentry,” because he was wearing diapers. But when he FINALLY decided it was time to lose the diapers, he was trained in two days. No early training “bragging rights” (LOL!) in this house.</p>
<p>Another issue with early training is hygiene. Those really young kids don’t have the ability to properly clean themselves or wash their hands properly. Yuk!</p>
<p>Yes, but is it a hook?</p>
<p>A hook? Hmmm…maybe if my son spins it effectively. “I am a URM — I was a diaper wearing four year old. My unsophisticated parents were unable to get me on track with my peers, but I persevered & am now 100% potty trained. I trust that my late start followed by my determination to catch up with the privleged early potty-trained crowd proves my tenacity.”</p>
<p>“Yes, but is it a hook?”</p>
<p>I nominate this for post of the day! Hilarious!!</p>
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<p>Thank you, SBmom! That was hilarious. Had I been drinking something, it would have been spewed all over my monitor. Too funny!</p>
<p>StickerShock, your post was hilarious, too. Thanks for the laughs!</p>