My 2 year old is showing signs of being "ready" for potty training. He seems able to control when and where he pees and I think its a matter of practicing getting to the potty and making sure he knows the potty is where to go (as opposed to the floor, the bath, etc.) I had planned to wait until this summer to start potty training, mostly because I am pregnant and due in March and wanted to wait for him to adjust to having the baby around. But now I am wondering if I should take advantage of the opportunity- and how wonderful it would be to only have one kid in diapers! Or should I wait, since its possible he will "regress" when baby arrives?
Thanks for all the advice! Seems like there is no harm in trying at least. I took out some library books and we will see how it goes!
Go for it now! He may regress and he may not!! Wouldn't that be wonderful to not have to worry about big kid diapers/Pull-ups/potty training after your new baby arrives! Wish I had done it that way.
Potty training is a process and if he's ready to start learning now, then start now. It's really hard to get back that window of opportunity where they are interested and ready for it. There is the possibility that if you skip this window you'll just be teaching him that diapers/pull-ups are where you pee/poop. And, there is no guarantee he will regress in that regard when the baby gets here.
Just don't get your heart set on only one kid in diapers. Boys (usually) take longer to train completely than girls do, so chances are you'll be balancing it with your new baby. I did the same thing and it took a couple of months before the new baby and a couple of months after she came to get him completely potty trained.
Good luck!
you can try it... nothing really to lose. but he may regress when baby arrives. My 2yr old (almost 3) is on/off on going to potty. We are due in 6 weeks.. so my plan was to really wait til after baby gets here. He hopefully will figure out that the baby wears diapers and he is a big boy... so he will want to wear big boy underpants. I have started slowly... he has been peeing/pooping on potty since Sept off and on. But not consistent. hard to do since we both work full time and we are always running on weekends. I figure I will be home more after baby so will have time to work with him.
Have you transitioned to pull ups yet. My son was using the potty we transitioned to pull ups and then big boy pants during the day and pull ups at night and then one night I went to put pull ups on him and he said no that he wanted to stay in his big boy pants. That was it. That was October 25th and I delivered my second on December 9th. We had a few nighttime wettings when new baby came, but it wasn't that hard to get him back on track.
Go for it! If it doesn't work you can try again over the summer.
3 day method by lora jensen is fabulous. My kids trained in 3 days, and 1.5 days.
Hi--
When I was pregnant with my second I let my son decide about potty training. I ,too, didnt want to push it because of the whole regression aspect. My son was older than yours (just turned 3) when we started. He had diaper days and underwear days, and they were always his choice. When his baby brother was born he decided that he was now a big kid and was fully potty trained within four days of the birth of his brother. I never had to use charts or stickers or anything. He just did it in his own time.
That's just my experience :-)
Good luck and congrats on the upcoming birth!
J.
I would wait for sure. You are way too close to having your baby and would probably suffer from regression, especially if this is his first sibling. I use the rule of either 2 months before or 2 months after. In fact, I have a 2 year old and a 5 week old baby and will be starting in a couple weeks on the potty training. A few weeks of double diapers isn't so bad.
Good luck and congrats!
