What is the youngest you've heard of a baby being potty trained?

Question

I know someone who claims that her baby was potty trained at 9 months. I find this very hard to believe. My baby is 10 months and I can't even imagine my baby being potty trained.

Just wondering- What is the youngest you've heard of a baby being potty trained??

She claims that her daughter was wearing underwear @ 9 months & would say pee-pee & stink-stink. I just find this sooo hard to believe.

Answer 1

There is something called EC (elimination communication). It can be done from birth or it can be started later.

Ppl who have very little knowledge of EC tend to put it down as "parent training." Ahem, even an older toddler usually cannot go to the bathroom all on his/her own until they are old enough to get their pants down, climb up on the toilet, wipe, get down, and pull pants up. Most kids need assistance w/ that stuff for quite awhile after "potty training." Even my 4 year old needs assistance w/ wiping herself now and then.

A baby really can learn to signal elimination needs long before our culturally accepted age of potty training readiness. We started EC w/ my son shortly after birth and found that he'd wiggle and grunt when he had to poop and wiggle when he had to pee. We learned to put him on a tiny baby bjorn potty, support him very carefully and he'd eliminate easily and quickly. We got to the point where his dipes were almost alway dry and he was almost always signaling us. Unfortunately, my husband had to go on a very long business trip, then our whole family was sick for an extended period of time. We let EC slide and never really were disciplined enough to pick it back up. Our son does seem more aware of his elimination than our daughter was at this age (she was conventionally diapered, etc) though. We will definitely be trying EC again w/ any future children.

For those who say that they babies do not have control of their elimination....I wonder how they explain that most EC'd babes remain dry for extended periods of time, but will eliminate quickly on the toilet? The theory behind EC is that babies have a natural sense of their elimination. The sense of it fades when diapers are primarily used b/c there is no need for it. When the child reaches the culturally accepted age of potty training, s/he actually has to relearn that sense and control rather than acheive it for the first time. I have myself witness my son very deliberately holding his urine/poop until I could get him on the potty when we were doing EC. I tried never to delay, but in the times it was unavoidable, he'd wiggle and wiggle until we got him over the potty, then void immediately.

Answer 2

Youngest and most sensible age i have heard of is round 18 months. My son went within the potty a pair times when he was that age however nonetheless is not thoroughly potty knowledgeable and he just became 2.

Answer 3

That does sound hard to believe, I dont understand why you would really want to potty train them that early, unless the parents didnt want to deal with the diapers anymore. My daughter is 16 1/2 months old and we are starting to potty train her because she tells us when she pees and poops. I think the child has to be ready theirselves. I wouldnt force it on them that young thats ridiculous! They arent really potty trained if the parent has to hold them up the whole time, they dont even know what it is or what they are doing at that age. I was potty trained at about 17 or 18 months .

Answer 4

2 to 3 months.

There is an entire system called elimination communication that is the standard in most of Asia. Basically, infants learn to signal their parents and parents learn how to watch for signals and they hold babies over the potty from the earliest ages. The technique has been adapted for use in the west to reduce the number of disposible diapers used. I actually hope more people learn about it because disposable diapers really are a huge environmental problem.

The unfortunate part is, 10 months is really too late for you to start. You might be able to start putting your child on the potty first thing in the morning and after each meal and use one less diaper a day, but you won't be able to train him or her completely.

I've been putting my one year-old on a potty a few times a day since she was a few months old and she pees and poops in it with sounds and signals. You can read more about it in the article below.

Answer 5

Well according to my mother my grandmother had me trained where i wouldnt poop in my diaper at around six months but as far as peeing i dont know about that but other babies i have heard around the time you are saying but i think that doing it that early could cause an emotional distress for the child since the typical toliet age is 18 months to 3 years depending upon readiness and childs sex, but that young is absurd to me i mean my kids are 3 1/2 and 13 months so one is trained and the other isnt

Answer 6

6 months old. A friend of mine had a nanny that took the liberty of training this baby. The child would neither poop or pee in her diaper!
Also, in chinese orphanges it is the normal practice to potty train a baby as soon as it is able to sit up. Another friend that adopted a baby from china learned this... her 9 month old came to her fully trained.

Answer 7

A friend of mine started potty training her baby when he was around 3 months.At first I thought it was weird,but it really works!You just have to learn your baby's signals and put him on the baby potty(holding him the whole time obviously).She must go through a lot less diapers(she uses fuzzi bunz anyway,but what a difference)!

Answer 8

I think that is obtainable, it depends on the maturity of the child and the persistance of the parent (parent has to be careful not to go overboard and push the child too much which can create a complex that could be far reaching into adolescence or adulthood). My son was potty trained by 1 1/2.

Answer 9

This can be done. It all depends upon what the child is exposed to and how proactive the parents are. My daughter started going to the potty at 13 months.

Answer 10

There are parents who use "elimination communication" I think it's called where they start holding their baby over a potty at just a couple fo months old. Those babies are not potty trained however, the parents train themselves on what to look for as signs the baby is going to go. A child does not have control over their bowels until the 2nd year, so it should not be started until then.