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Signs Your Toddler Is Ready for Potty Training (& Signs They’re Not)

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What are the Best Teething Foods?

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Nighttime Potty Training: Your Expert Guide

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Potty Training: Your Complete Guide

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When to Start Potty Training

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How to Potty Train A Girl: 20 Tips from Real Moms

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Potty Training Boys: 16 Tips from Real Moms

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From the community

Recent discussions

Is this okay ?

I feel like a bad mum but currently on my own while dad takes our eldest out and I really need the toilet (tmi but 3 days post C-section so going toilet obvs takes a little longer than normal) I’ve put my boys in their cot like this with camera . Is this okay just while I go toilet 😅

With my first I would do this without hesitation but it just feels weird leaving two babies?

(The bathroom is literally 5 steps from their room)

Potty shot at 15 plus 6 weeks clear boy but from the side profile it was a flat nub.

I guess we always go with the potty shot?

🚽💜 Potty Mouth Update 💜🚽

First, I owe everyone an apology for missing our pod this morning!

My little one decided sleep was optional last night and was up until 3:00 AM 😭😂. After that adventure, there was absolutely no way I was making it up bright and early for our 9:00 AM chat.

Thank you for understanding! Parenthood keeps us humble, doesn’t it? 💀

We’ll be back for our next Potty Mouth Saturday, where we’ll continue sharing potty training tips, celebrating wins, venting about accidents, and laughing through the chaos together.

In the meantime, let’s keep the conversation going in the comments:

👇 What’s one potty win (big or small) you’ve had recently?

Thanks for sticking with me, potty crew! 🚽✨

Potty training

Hiya, my son is going to be 2 in july, i believe he’s showing signs of needing to be potty trained (he is putting his hand in his nappy when he poops and taking it out ect)
The thing is he cannot talk yet which i’m worried will be a struggle to communicate when potty training
Does anyone have any tips or has been in the same situation? Or how to start potty training in general with him as i have no idea.

posting as incoginito as don’t want people knowing this much about my child, thank you :)

Thank you so much in advance x

Teeth?

Does this look like teething?

Baby has turned 4 months this week… she is inconsolable and is pulling on one ear😥(gnawing and dribbling too but that’s typical for her).
I can’t feel any obvious teeth, and she hasn’t got a fever 🤷‍♀️

Potty training/night time pull ups

I started potty training my wee girl about 5 weeks ago. She has been wearing pants during the day but a pull up to bed. The last 2 weeks or so she has been waking up in the morning with a completely dry pull up. Is it time to stop using a pull up for bedtime?😬

If your child is a week into potty training do you just whip out the potty in any public place?

My son really needed to go and just running to a corner of the park where the pram was he ended up pooing his pants. I didn’t even know if it was the right thing to have him sat on the potty in front of everyone 🤷🏻‍♀️ but there was nowhere else. Is there anywhere you wouldn’t want your child to go?

Is anyone's 4 year old fully potty trained during the night?

It's been almost 3/4 montns now since I started training my daughter to sleep without a nappy during the night, and I am very proud of her and I wish I had more faith in her to do it sooner, but she hasn't had many accidents, maybe 3 or 4 accidents since I started , but I think it is because I am very strict on no more water after 8:30pm ,and whenever I wake up to go to the toilet which is 2 times during the night, I always take her with me, and she often does a little wee,but I do have my lazy days where I rather not wake her up, so I just tell her to put a nappy on to avoid wetting her bed or my bed when she sleeps with me

Swollen gums

It looks like my boys gums are swollen and I mean entire mouth, they are dark red and puffy. We didn't change anything. He didn't eat anything new. Could it be teething? He refused dinner yesterday and then woke up at midnight to 38deg temperature. No breakfast, no lunch, only cold yoghurt, a bit of tonight's dinner. He is drooling as well 🤷🏼‍♀️

Potty training

Anyone else 3 year old not potty trained yet?

potty training.

my little girl is 2 and is on the pathway for getting diagnosed with autism , i feel like there’s a lot of pressure on potty training and she starts nursery in september she absolutely hates nappy changes or getting dressed it ends up in full blown meltdowns multiple times a day so i wanted to give potty training a go but i just don’t know where to start as she’s my first , she doesn’t speak or follow commands etc

Have you taught your children it’s ok to pee outside if needed?

I didn’t want to comment on the potty training post because I thought people would think I’m a bad parent, but I was wondering if anyone does the same as me and teaches there children to pee in the bushes when your outside instead of having to find or drive to a toilet or carry a portable potty?

Potty Trained but not??

Hi all, my daughter turned 3 in April. She’s been potty trained since September. But she keeps weeing herself when it’s an inconvenience to her when she’s playing, etc. Or she holds it until she’s desperate so she wees down her legs before she gets to the loo. She’s dry through the night. Has been since October. I just don’t understand why she keeps doing it. Is anyone else’s little one like this? And how did you get past it if so?

Potty training

Anybody started potty training yet ? 😬 .. or you're just going with the flow lol waiting on the child to lead

Brushing teeth

Okay so my son is 3, and I’ve brushed his teeth off and on but overall haven’t been the most consistent with it. I finally started getting more on track by brushing them at night at the very least, and sometimes even after dinner too, but we’ve been moving out and I started slipping again. Is this going to cause bigger problems? I feel horrible about it 🫩😓

9 months of potty training still no luck

Hi all, im desperately after advice on potty training. My son has now turned 3. We started potty training 9 months ago at the advice of nursery who were sure he was ready. Hes my first child so I assumed nursery would be experienced enough to give the advice and I felt like he was showing readiness too. Now 9 months later, he still wont tell us when he needs to wee we have to constantly take him or accidents happen. Poos he was always ok with and wud tell us but past 3 weeks he had been fully pooping in his pants and hiding from us. He doesnt seem bothered if hes wet or had poo on him. I feel he has got used to wetting/pooping knowing itl get cleaned up. Im desperate for ideas on how to help him grasp it.

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