Potty Training Babies
Potty training babies probably shouldn’t be done. It is wise to wait until the tiny things become toddlers before starting the process of potty training. The child needs to at least know how to speak, motion, stand up, and sit down before they can begin potty training so it is wiser to wait until they are toddlers.
However, as babies, whether you are potty training girls or boys, it is far different from the conception of toilet training toddlers that many people have. In fact, infant potty training doesn’t involve any effort, at least consciously, on your infant’s part at all. If you’ve ever wanted to know how mothers dispensed of diapers in the past or how other cultures were able to get rid of diapers so quickly, then just read on.
The basic tenets of infant potty training involve understanding your infant’s elimination body language, timing, patterns, and vocalizations. If you can familiarize yourself with all of these things, then you can partake of infant potty training. You must set aside doubts, fears, and cautions against infant potty training if you want to begin. The Western World is conditioned to fear any form of early toilet training. The prohibitions against infant potty training are really based on opinion and not scientific proof. Maturational readiness theories are folklore, opinions, and pseudoscience masquerading as science. Infant potty training is based on your child’s rhythms and communication between the mother and her baby.
Training a baby to potty train is just like training a dog or cat because it works on sound cues, muscle memory, and situational cues to let your infant know where you want him to go pee, poop, and when. If you anticipate that your infant needs to go, then make a watery sound like a ‘sssss’ or ‘pee pee’ sound. Then, use this sound every time you want your child to go the bathroom. Or, make this sound when your child is going the bathroom. He will then associate this sound when going to the bathroom with the process of elimination. Take your child to the same place every day to force through his elimination.
The best time to start potty training is at 4 to 5 months old. The average time that babies take to complete perfecting this process is 2 years. It is safe if parents have the right mind-set before approaching the dirty topic of infant potty training, pun intended. This really works with some effort.
Just work with cues, and your baby will be potty training in no time. Some cues that your baby may be ready to go to the bathroom include a fuss or cry before, during, or after elimination, grunt during the process of defecation, and unique toilet sounds that your baby makes when approaching the toilet.
Some body language that you can pay attention to with your child include tensing or stiffening of the body, assuming a piercing or imploring expression, squirming or awakening the mother, contracting the abdomen while in the midst of pushing, and patting or grabbing the crotch area.
Even a baby can learn. And for those of you lucky enough to be potty training girls, it happens much faster than boys!