What do you guys do I don't know squat about potty training? hee hee. Dd will tell me when she pee pees or doodys then she goes and get a diaper, her diaper rash cream and her changing pad and lays down to be changed. I have gotten her to sit on her potty in a clothed diaper. What should I be doing? I have no idea. Should she be wearing panties now? She hasn't actually gone in the potty yet.

I have the same questions with CW. He will go sit on his potty seat. He will stand in front of the toilet like daddy. But he has yet to do anything. Also, he won't tell me when he's pottied or pooped in his diaper. Wugh. He used to bring me a diaper, but now he'd just rather keep playing.

So, does this mean he's not ready yet? Or just sort of ready? Is there anything I can do to encourage him?

I read practically everything on the market and still had to pretty much play it by ear. (Neither of my kids seems to fit into a neat little pattern on anything. )

DD potty trained pretty late, 3 years + 3 months, but I'm fairly sure she would have gone sooner if I hadn't presented her with the upheaval of a baby brother at 2-1/2. She watched all of her classmates at daycare train before she decided it would be a good idea, and trust me, until it's their idea, you don't have a prayer.

Now, you can definitely encourage them and get them used to it. I think the best influence is seeing Mom and Dad go and knowing that it's normal and getting the basics of the routine down (you know, pull down pants, undies, THEN go ). I always made sure I dropped everything if she said she needed to go, even when I was pretty sure I was being played, as I sat up several nights with her on the potty between about 2 and 3 a.m. (Ah, good times. Good times.) Another key is to be sure they recognize the before you go signs. The only way my Lauren figured it out was to go on herself and put two and two together. Being like me, all the talking in the world was not going to do this. She had to feel it for herself.

When she really seemed to be getting serious about it (i.e., asking often and in a pretty set pattern), I just started putting her in underwear when we were home (and doing a lot of cleanup work). We saw NO results when she wore pull-ups during the day; they were just glorified diapers as far as she was concerned. Once we hit that milestone, she trained herself within a week!! I only used pull-ups for overnight for about the first month just in case, but she always woke up dry. It was a wonderful day!!

Now I'm back to square one with DS. He is two and very consistently pees in the bathtub, right after I've had him stand in front of the potty with the bath water running. Not sure about this one. Good luck, ladies!!

I have been doing infant potty training with my ds since he was 10 months or so. I put him on the potty in the morning and after naps and he pees. he used to poo, but has stopped doing that on the potty now. He is 17 months now and I would like to keep it going because I know he is not trained right now, I am!