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preciousjewel

Posts: 59
Registered: 06-Nov-2006

Potty training - How old???
Posted: 29-Nov-2006 09:25

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I have read in the past about lpwcf who take longer to potty train ?? Is this the norm?/ or a Myth. My lpwcf is 19 mths and tells me when she has had a poo and gets the mat out for me.. This is far more advanced than my son aged 3 yrs wocf and he was trained at 2 yrs 4 mths.

Any thoughts / advice?????

ladybird

Posts: 226
From: Northants
Registered: 05-Nov-2006

Re: Potty training - How old???
Posted: 29-Nov-2006 10:35

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Go for it if she's ready! It sounds like she's starting to think about it, but has she got any bladder control/recognition yet? Ocean seems more aware than his brothers at this age, but I've no doubt he's not ready yet as he still wee's all over the place if his nappy is off. He has been known to take himself into the toilet, close the door and fill his nappy!! His brothers didn't train until 3yrs so I'm not expecting anything for a good while yet. Girls are thought to be easier and earlier to get out of nappies than boys too!!

Meggie-Moo

Posts: 26
From: West Midlands
Registered: 07-Nov-2006

Re: Potty training - How old???
Posted: 29-Nov-2006 11:01

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Go for it, she sounds ready

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Meghan was done just before she was 2 years old in the day without many accidents....

Clare
xxx

Katy_7

Posts: 8
From: cambridgeshire
Registered: 06-Nov-2006

Re: Potty training - How old???
Posted: 29-Nov-2006 12:17

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I would also say go for it. Everyone is different and I cant see how CF would hinder it if the meds are correct.

Ben is 27 months but just not ready to be trained yet - I wish he was though as nappies for two is expensive!

Katy

livvy

Posts: 185
Registered: 06-Nov-2006

Re: Potty training - How old???
Posted: 29-Nov-2006 12:21

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Little girls are usually more advanced in the potty training department than little boys - not that I have first hand experience in that department though! That's according to my mother! Dan was sat on the toilet doing his business before he was 3 years old. Joe, on the other hand, is a little law unto himself and is still wearing pull-up's!

One day he uses the potty - next day the toilet - and the day after the pull up! We take one step forward and 10 back with him. They only do it when they want to - is what my mother tells me! So encourage and coax where you can - if she's ready - go!

maggsmcg

Posts: 60
From: Hemel Hempstead
Registered: 07-Nov-2006

Re: Potty training - How old???
Posted: 29-Nov-2006 12:49

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Hey Livvy your Joe sounds just like my grand son Dominic (wocf) he will be 3 on 7th December and someimtes decides he's a "big boy" and will use the potty and others actually asks for a nappy to be put on. I have told his mum to get pull-ups as they will make it easier for him to make up his mind.

We have a suspicion that his other grandma has tried to get him to sit on a toilet, because if we ask him to sit on a toilet he says in a worried voice " I might fall down". So we think that maybe he has!

meggy

Posts: 30
From: The South
Registered: 06-Nov-2006

Re: Potty training - How old???
Posted: 29-Nov-2006 13:59

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Joel worries about falling into the toilet too, and we know he never has. He worries about me falling in as well, so I reassured him I was too big - now he announces at the top of his voice in any public toilet that "mummy won't fall in, her bottom is too big". Kids! (We ought to start a thread of embarrassing things our kids say!)
Joel really potty trained himself at 2 1/2, when he started taking an interest in sitting on his potty, but we'd had the potty around for a while and he played with it. Now, at 3 accidents are very rare.
I'd say go for it, precious jewel, if you find she's not ready you can always go back to nappies and leave it for a while before trying again.

meggy

lmstepney

Posts: 31
Registered: 06-Nov-2006

Re: Potty training - How old???
Posted: 29-Nov-2006 14:13

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Our son wasn't toilet/potty trained until 3 1/2. It certainly does seem the norm that pwcf are a little late in this respect. It was potty training that led to his diagnosis in fact.

niknak

Posts: 31
From: cheshire
Registered: 06-Nov-2006

Re: Potty training - How old???ound
Posted: 29-Nov-2006 17:43

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Hi,
Sounds like your little one is ready! My daughter,Holly started doing the same at 18mnths( well, she used to hide in the corner when she was doing a poo!)so i started her off and she is now completely dry in the day and just has a nighttime nappy. Cf certainly hasn't slowed her down she got the hang of it within 2 months!

Good luck
Nikki xx

re luke

Posts: 7
From: Haywards Heath,West Sussex
Registered: 17-Nov-2006

Re: Potty training - How old???ound
Posted: 29-Nov-2006 19:32

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Hi Luke is 4 and three months and shows no interest at all for using the potty although to be fair he is behind in most things and has seperate bowel issues x

tj

Posts: 33
From: Manchester
Registered: 06-Nov-2006

Re: Potty training - How old???ound
Posted: 29-Nov-2006 19:35

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We are currently potty training Joe, and although he has bladder control his bowels are a different story. Sometimes he can be fine and take a pooh on the potty and other times, especially when he has really loose stools he will go on the floor

not his fault and so for us we think Joe will be slower in controlling his very loose stools.

Never mind, hopefully Ruby won't have that prob and will be potty trained in no time!

good luck (to you and your washing machine

)

tinekax