[soontobegran]

I honestly don't remember actively TT most of our kids but I do remember once they started showing readiness it was over with in the space of a couple of days.
I do know that at 19 months our DD4 started pulling off her nappy and wanting to go to the potty which we let her do although not confident that she was ready as she was still heavily wet after sleeps. She wore undies during the day and a nappy at night. She stayed dry and pee'd in the potty for about 3 weeks or so then suddenly she wanted nappies again and started wetting them.
We put her back in nappies and she wasn't out of them for another 4 months (daytime only)
I think if you can catch them when they are ready and not when we think they might be it seems to happen so much faster.

Good luck, it sounds as though he is doing well.

[roses99]

It was very quick once I finally got over myself and just put him in undies. He was 2.5 years old and already familiar with the toilet (as in, we'd just occasionally sat him on it from 18 months, and he'd occasionally, accidentally do something while sitting there).

We had a couple accidents, but really not that many. The thing that helped for us, was that I just put him in undies and a t-shirt, but didn't bother with shorts. That meant we could get to the toilet quickly!

Once we'd mastered things at home, it still took me a few months before I was brave enough to venture out without a nappy. But again, I got over myself and realised that I was confusing him by doing nappies out and undies at home.

Funnily enough, I remember saying to the daycare carers that DS was toilet trained now, so I'd like to try ditching the nappies. They just said, "Oh, he's been going to the toilet fine for weeks now".

[*Mumma-to-A*]

Just before he turned 3. Took less than 5 days and we went straight for the toilet as there was no interest in the potty at all.

I hesitated probably too long on the night training and just before christmas decided why on earth was I putting night nappies on when he was dry so just went without and had our very first accident last night (so 4 months) but he has been unwell.

It's not as bad as I thought it was going to be.

[mumandboys]

DS1 - years (no I am not kidding) - started at 2.5yrs, I believe a combination of him having no idea what we were trying to do, and us being new parents and completely confusing him by chopping and changing strategies way too often.

DS2 - about 3 weeks - he started training himself, around 2yrs

DS3 - about 6 weeks - started at 3 years 7 months (no interest from him before this age)



DS4 - can stay in nappies forever if he wishes as I've learned it's not worth the grief if they're not ready

ETA: DS4 can say "wee wee", and I sit him on the toilet every night before his bath, sometimes he does something, other times he doesn't, it's all very casual and stress free, but probably a good precursor to get him used to the toilet, and an opportunity to teach him what "wee" is.

This post has been edited by mumandboys: 11/03/2012, 01:57 PM

[tanyak1]

We started trying with DS when he was about 2 1/2. On and off for about 6 months, he had no idea - until he was 3 and 1 month, and in a couple of days it 'clicked' and he's been great since.

[Wahwah]

2yrs 5m here, using the toilet as there was zero interest in the potty once we took nappies off. We had been sitting on the potty at bath time for a month or some before we completely ditched the nappies.

We went cold turkey on a Friday, he was dry by Monday, with only a few accidents in between.

Night training was another story. We didn't even try to take off the night nappy for another year.

(And all this led me to the belief that his sister would be even easier but boy I was wrong. She didn't want TT until she felt like. We tried to encourage her from about 2y5m as it worked for her brother but gave up. It had to be entirely her choice for it it work. Then on her third birthday, she woke up and said I don't want to wear a nappy any more, and that was it, we had 2 accidents from memory, both on the carpet!).

This post has been edited by Wahwah: 11/03/2012, 02:12 PM