Potty Training - Balsam Lake,WI

Hi S.,

What you are talking about is not training, but catching and anticipating when he will go. In China, they put little crotchless pants on their babies and let them go wherever they are, and then clean it up.

What you can do is get a little potty that sits on the floor (a baby potty). I would NOT put him up on the adult toilet. He needs to be able to put his feet on the floor to help him. You can sit on the floor with him - don't bend over for your back's sake. After you feed him, sit him on the potty. Take him to the potty every half hour. He will still pee and poop because he is not capable of being "trained", but if you are willing to keep putting him on the potty, it will help his little bottom.

When you take him out, make sure to put a diaper on him. Pooping and peeing in the grocery store is bad manners! :)

Good luck,
Dawn

Have you tried a diffrent brand of diapers. My daughter couldn't use anything other than huggies or she would get a super bad diaper rash. Good Luck

I don't know anything about your son, but I know MY son was no where near potty trainable at 10.5 months.
My son was a big boy - 25 lbs at 1 yr and he walked at 14 months.
He was day trained, quickly/easily at 3 1/2 years (he was in pullups at night till he was 7 1/2 - he was a really deep sleeper).
I guess it doesn't hurt to try, but if it is setting you up for frustration and a power struggle, you might eventually have to wait till he's older.
I was an admittedly lazy laid back potty trainer.
I let day care take the lead on it.
They certainly had more experience with it than I had plus when they made a habit of taking the whole class for potty breaks every hour it was just something everyone did and they had some very cute tiny baby sized toilets which were sized just for them.
He came home showing me what he could do and then all I had to do was follow up and continue with the training on the weekends.
I just didn't want to deal with poop/pee all over everything.
For me changing diapers was easier than cleaning up accidents.
We never ONCE had a melt down or struggle over it.

My MIL swears she had my hubby potty trained by 5 months old. I think it was just figuring out his times.

I think it is impossible to train a child until they are cognitively able to process the whole thing.

When training a person with a developmental disability it takes a lot of discerning to determine at what step they need to start a task. Take for an example brushing teeth. To do this task what does a person need to do before they can say they actually know how to do this???

first of all they must recognize it's time to brush their teeth

they need to go to the place they brush their teeth

then gather what they need to do the task such as toothbrush, toothpaste, etc.

they also have to be able to hold the toothbrush, put the toothpaste on the brush, turn on the water, set the water temp to a medium temp so they don't get burned or hurt their teeth with water that is too cold, wet the brush with the toothpaste on it without loosing the toothpaste into the sink, then do the brushing in a thorough way.

After they do the task they need to clean up, then go about their business.

So something as simple as brushing teeth has many complicated steps.

Potty training takes a lot of these same mental abilities. Your baby does not have the mental ability to do this. He is too young and it will be nothing more than just catching him at the right time. If you are busy cooking dinner or switching a load of laundry out and he squirts poop all over the floor and starts playing in it or finger-painting with it you are going to realize just how ludicrous this task is.

When he is breaking out it may be the laundry soap or fabric softener you are using if it's cloth diapers. If it's from disposable then it's possible he's allergic to the materials or fragrances in them. There are many possible causes so don't just give up and do so much work.

When doing the potty training, a lot of us put boys on the toilet seat backwards and it works just fine. They get the idea they are supposed to face the water tank this way so when they start standing up it's just a normal thing for them to do.

You are welcome to try but you will be potty training yourself and not the baby. You are setting yourself up for stress and disappointment in my opinion. I would try Huggies or a different brand of diapers instead...my girls were allergic to the Target brand diapers (terrible diaper rashes from them). Your son may just be allergic to the Pampers.

One of my friends has used elimination training since the birth of her son. There are a few key things that you must know.

In infancy, it isn't training the child to use the potty - it is training the parent to notice the cues a baby makes before they go and bringing the child to the toilet in time.

Since you did not start when he was a newborn, you can expect a lot of messes. This is not your baby's fault in making the mess, but yours in not noticing and acting quickly.

If you have a bad back, this will be difficult for you as you need to stay in close physical proximity to your child. Baby wearing is recommended and you will have to do a lot of carrying, lifting and clean up.

I'm not saying you can't or shouldn't do it - you just need a realistic view of what it is you'd be doing and what you can accomplish. It is not potty training, so don't have expectations that your child will independently take himself to the potty anytime soon.