Infant Potty Training at 8 Months?

My grandma had 8 children, and claimed they were ALL potty trained by 10 mos. She would watch for their cues, and then hold them over a Mason jar to pee/poo. My grandpa insists that it was my GRANDMA who was the one who was potty trained, not any of their kids.

it is not potty training, it is elimination training, and it is the adult that is trained, not the infant. A adult is trained to recognize the small Qs a baby give to signal it is about to pee or poop. The child will do what it needs to where ever it is, it is up to the adult to take the child and hold it over the potty. The 8 month old is not learning anything really.

You are trained, your baby is not.

Yes I’ve heard of it and really its about knowing your child’s schedule because at that age they do not have any bladder control. So aprox 45 min after my son drinks 6-8 oz of water he has to urinate so I take him to the bathroom. I know that at 9 & 2 my son has a BM so I take him to the bathroom. Eventually they make the association and will go to the bathroom on their own. My son just turned two this month and I noticed at 23 months that he started to pee in the bathtub so I started sitting him on the toilet now he has started to tell you, wish my girls where this easy 

there are a bunch of yahoo groups. Search for diaperfree baby.

Many people don't believe it's possible. I have seen babies that have been Ec'd since birth. Their mom's aren't trained. Just because the baby can't say "take me to the bathroom", this doesn't mean the kid can't communicate it. My son, for instance, at 15 months stopped wanting to wear his diaper. As it turned out, he didn't want it on because he wanted to try to go pee in the toilet. I spent weeks fighting him, when, by refusing the diaper, he was trying to say "hey mom, I really want to do this toilet thing, but I can't do it with the diaper on! And I can't tell you to take off my diaper because I can't talk yet!"

I do early start with my kids, so I introduce the potty at 9 months, reading them lots of books, etc. and then around 14 months I start putting them on it when they get up from naps. Both of my kids were night and day trained by 23 months. My son was a breeze, and he started taking himself off to the potty regularly at 19 months (I'd have to help because he couldn't get his pants down), and now at almost 2 (in a few days!), he is totally done with diapers, including night time.

I highly recommend using cloth diapers. They really help kids learn the wet/dry thing at a young age.

Get a copy of "early start potty training" out of your library. In fact, you will find lots of potty training books at the library for kids under the age of 2, because training kids before 18 months was the norm up until the creation of Pampers.

As others said it's called elimination communication and it's not about learning your babies schedule, it's about learning their cues. I guess you could say you are training the parent, not the child, but anyone who has ever potty trained a child will tell you that you can't make a child go if they don't want to. And children do have control of their bladder and bowels from birth, we just train them to ignore their own cues and pee/poop in a diaper. The problem is at that age they don't usually say "potty" they have some other cue, so if you learn the cue it's no different than putting your 3 year old on the potty when they tell you they have to go. It's also about giving them an alternative to the diaper. Most babies who EC even part-time will wait to poop until you put them on the potty. It does take commitment and attention on the part of the parent, which is why I didn't do it as a full-time working mom, but if I was at home I would totally do it and am even considering doing it part time with our baby that is due in the spring.

This is an 'old' way of doing it and really you are training yourself, the mother, to run with your child to the potty. My mother said back in her day they did that a lot. To me it's just not worth it until you can train the child to go on their own. I had enough to do without running an infant to a potty.

It's not really training the child it's training the parent to watch for what the child does when they use the bathroom.

The correct words to google are elimination communication.

http://www.diaperfreebaby.org/ This site states that it is not potty
training.

Here is another site. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elimination_communication

Hmmmm. My kids were 4 yr olds before they were completely trained so I sure don't know what that trick would be :)

Google "evacuation communication."

My friend did this, and she was quite successful with one of her sons, the other hasn't been interested. It's called "elimination communication." I thought it sounded crazy, but my friend's son was out of diapers by one year.