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POTTY TRAINING
Once the baby grows out of diapers, the next challenge is potty training. A Good number of children are ready to use the potty generally by two to three years of age. It may seem as the next big thing for most parents but just a little observation on the baby’s bowel movements is good enough to potty train their babies.
How to Begin
- Start using cloth diapers when you think of potty training your baby. Since cloth diapers cannot absorb wetness unlike the disposable diapers, you child might get irritated with the dampness and can e encouraged to potty train.
- Girls generally learn faster than boys.
- Summers could be the best time to potty train as its much easier for your tots to remove clothing faster.
- Observe if he has not urinated for more than two hours, this is an indication that he could be well ready for potty training.
- Also watch his facial expressions if he is uncomfortable or grumpy, this could mean he needs to clean up his bowels and this is when you could start potty training him.
- Make it more interesting by handing him a toy or placing one of his favorite toys at the potty.
- Do not hurry up to potty train your baby when he is too small to even understand.
- Utter simple words to make him understand that he needs to potty ( by now he is able to listen to and say some words).
- Make your bathroom more interesting and colorful for him to enter it.
- Encourage him to wear training pants and say bye- bye to diapers.
- Potty training is different for different babies, do not compare them with your older children and assume that your younger one is late.
- Babies often need to be reminded by moms and dads that they need to potty as they are not capable of understanding their own body. So push them into doing it when you think they should, like after an hour of drinking water or milk or after an hour or so of having a meal.
- It is normal and common for kids to wet their beds even after getting potty trained , so don’t panic if you see their beds wet.
- Once you begin to potty train, stop diapers completely at least when your baby is home, get him to wear underwear and training pants.
- Involve and make it interesting by letting them choose what colors they’d want to wear.
- Use a potty that suits your baby’s size.
- Let the potty stay wherever your child is initially, like if he is playing in the living area; place it there so that he can immediately use it when he needs to. He might not be used to going all the way to the bathroom, at the very first go, when he slowly and steadily gets used to using it, then start placing it in the bathroom.
- Don’t be upset with the accidents they cause, instead this is a learning process for them. Once they feel wet, they wouldn’t like it and do it right the next time.
- Teach them hygiene by making them clean and wipe.
- Appreciate and praise them when they do it right, this encourages them to potty train easily.
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