Potty training

I’ve started potty training my daughter and took her nappy and leggings off when we’re at home. She had lots of wees on the floor and I kept the potty nearby and kept putting her on it. Now when I take her nappy off she doesn’t like not having anything on and gets upset. She doesn’t like wearing knickers. Would you say she’s not ready to potty train yet? I have noticed when she does a poo, she says change nappy now. But doesn’t understand yet to do wees on the potty. I feel pressured by family members to get her potty trained by the time she’s 3 and I don’t understand why. They all do it in their own time. There making me feel like we’re behind and I’m worrying about it. Does anyone else feel like this? x x x

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I feel pressured too, my daughter is 3 on the 16th October, she’s non verbal and seems impossible to train her. She was going lots of wees around the house and occasionally I could catch some of it in the potty once I put her on it but we never seemed to be moving forward. I was trying for months and now she’s scared to even sit on it and just shakes her head to indicate she doesn’t want to sit on there :( I honestly feel the pressure too but it’s just not the right time for us it seems xx

I felt a bit pressured too but tbh looking back I'm glad I potty trained when I did. Accidents are bound to happen just have to stick with it. It's good she knows when she's done a poo. My son is 3 in November and he's been potty trained since around april

Honestly, if you feel she isn't ready then just wait a few months or weeks...she will get there when she's ready and she will grasp it within a few days! I feel pressured to get my daughter into a bed but after trialling it on holiday this past week there is noooo way that she is ready !! So I'll be keeping her in her cot bed cot until after Christmas ... But yet she's potty trained, so some may have their children potty trained but not in a bed, and some are in beds and sleeping through in it but not potty trained...all in their own time !! Xx

@Kerri aww bless you I feel the same. I don’t know why there’s this pressure to potty train them by the time there 3. A family member said to me my daughter needs to be potty trained by the time she starts nursery which is January. I said no they don’t have to be it’s more when they start school which is 2 years away. I said nursery’s actually help with potty training xx

@Rebecca oh that’s good. My daughter won’t let me keep her nappy off or put knickers on her now so I don’t know if she’s not ready xx

@Dx absolutely! I don’t know why people feel the need to pressure mums into these things. Every child is different and does things in their own time. My little girl don’t sleep through the night but she never has x x x

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