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LOL. Absolutely not. Mother of 4 here. Girls will start at 2, boys start at 3. If you try at 3 months, you are setting yourself up for failure and a tremendous amount of stress, mess, and disrupted bonding when baby doesn’t do what you want it to. Parenting is an exercise in letting go. Your child will let you know when they’re ready to potty train.
PS - ease up on Tik Tok. It will only exacerbate your fragile mental state as the parent of a newborn. And give yourself grace. This parenting thing is HARD, and there’s no such thing as perfection.
My son was fully potty trained at 2.5 years old 🤷🏻♀️he was just ready.
I believe it's called elimination communication and honestly in the midst of all the newborn struggles this was the last thing I cared about. I was more than happy to change a diaper.
I'm pretty sure results of this method is very inconsistent and you end up doing the whole potty training process anyways once they start learning to listen to their bodies.
all my three kids potty trained around 3 years old and it wasn't so bad. with my first, we initially tried around the 18 month mark I think but that didn't go over well.
Every child is different, and you'll know when they're ready. I have twins and it was our boy that right at age 2 he just started doing it himself. "Daddy does it, so I do it." Our girl took another 6 months. Neither of them did we really work at it, if you wait until they're ready it can be pretty easy.
Pottying requires a number of skills:
Awareness
- Being aware they have soiled themselves and need to be cleaned (“I’ve gone”)
- Being aware that they are peeing or pooping (“I’m going”)
- Being aware the urge to go (“I need to go”)
Physical control
- Releasing on command/at will
- Holding it in until the appropriate time (on potty)
Communication and proactivity
- Communicating the need to go
- Proactively going to potty when aware of need
Babies/toddlers need to develop the muscle control, bodily awareness, and communication skills to do all this.
You can work on awareness when they are littler. When they are dirty or when you observe them going, call that out and teach them the words and baby signs for it. They will pick that up and it established good foundations for awareness and communication. You could totally start this under a year.
Once they have more head and sitting control you could try putting them on the potty at certain times (after eating, before and after sleep) etc to see if you can catch any pees or poops. It’s about getting them used to releasing somewhere different and based on cues. I wouldn’t expect much from it other than developing routine and familiarity.
Once some muscle control clicks (for my son it was after 18 months), you can work on further steps.
Or you can just ignore all that and wait until the 20-30 month window that the Oh Crap potty training method recommends :-) Kids develop at their own pace and you can’t teach or train until they are developmentally ready.
We did a very low pressure training from 18 months just getting son used to sitting on potty and at 28 months now things are starting to progress and pick up steam. We’re doing underwear at home and putting son on the potty at regular intervals.
Hope that helps!