Baby Potty Training vs. Potty Training Toddlers

Hi, Maria here,

this is my personal story on how I potty trained my kids as well as a review of baby potty training also known as infant potty training.

Why am I writing this? Well, browsing through the net, I realized, that there are not a lot of real reviews around, that show you the pros and cons of baby potty training vs. toddler potty training.

So I thought, I’d write write one real quick, to help any of you, who are in the same position I was.

Toddler Potty Training

I started potty training with all of my kids around the age of 2. It worked really well with both of my boys, but my youngest, a girl, gave me some major trouble.

After our pre potty training phase followed by the actual potty training, she still  refused to use the potty at all. So I waited another 6 weeks or so and tried it again. She still did not want to use the toilet. I had bought a cute musical potty chair and a bunch of other potty training products. Nothing seemed to work. She remained stubborn, and I was at my wits end.

I started researching online and stumbled across a website, that claimed, they could help to potty train even difficult children.

So I thought I’d give it a try.

They offered an audio potty training guide, accompanied by an e-book and potty training wall charts.

After listening to the audios and reading the book, I decided to give the potty training issue another try.

I followed the guide to the word and low and behold, I had my little angel cooperating, finally.

The one thing, that impressed and helped me the most was their way of helping me to deal with my daughter’s resistance.

Check out their website by clicking right HERE.

I had thought I know everything about baby potty training, boy was I wrong.

I learned so much from Katherine and Wayne, the owners of the site, and I am eternally grateful.

Click HERE, to sign up for their FREE potty training newsletter, with a lot of helpful articles on getting started potty training your little rascal.

Baby Potty Training

Also known as infant potty training, is quite a different story.

Here you are introducing your baby to the potty at a very early age usually before they are 6 months old.

You do this by figuring out the typical signs or gestures your baby shows before eliminating.  Once your baby shows those signs,  hold him gently over a toilet or a potty.

Since I don’t have any real experience in that field, I gathered some information from people I know, that tried it as well as around the net.

I stumbled across a website here, that promotes a baby potty training kit, the so called baby signs program. You can check it out by clicking HERE.

The pros:

• You bond better with your baby. As you are constantly watching it for signs it brings you closer to your baby.
• It is more comfortable for your baby, no diaper rush
• It reduces diaper waste and also the costs of buying diapers.
• It’s more natural

The cons:

• It takes a lot of time and dedication, so if you are working even just part time, or you have more than 1 child, it can be very challenging
• Expect set backs. Forums are full of notes from parents who find the process difficult and exasperating. A lot of babies use the potty for a while and then keep going back to having accidents; or they just eliminate with no signal at all. Some of them even stop having bowel movements.
• Be prepared for messes. Even though advocates say, that this method is less messy than diapers, you’ll need to be ready with cleaning materials, because sometimes your baby’s signals don’t work well or not at all.

Feel free to check out the baby signs website by clicking HERE.

My personal opinion after having read a couple of  forum posts and even talked to 2 other moms, who both gave up after a few weeks, it’s not worth the trouble.

Potty training a toddler as opposed to a baby potty training seems to me like a snap, especially if you follow the guide from Katherine and Wayne.

Toddler Potty Training Tips:

http://www.babypottytraininginfo.com/tips

Baby Potty Training:

http://www.babypottytraininginfo.com/babysigns

In the end, the decision has to be yours.