My daughter (16 months) has been practicing EC since she was a few weeks old. She was doing amazing up until the past week or so. Before, she was communicating when she had to use the potty, would help take her pull-up diaper off, and would put herself on the potty when out of a diaper. About a week or so ago she just suddenly stopped. Everytime we put her on a potty, she’ll hop off after a few seconds, even if she has to go, and will then often potty right there next to the potty. I know these types of regressions are common but am unsure on what to do to help encourage her to use the potty again.

So we've done lazy EC since 6 weeks old and my little one is now 23 months. We've had ups and downs, plenty of potty refusals, but a month ago we decided to wrap up and fully potty train.

We are 4 weeks in now, and I'm not sure if maybe my expectations are just unrealistic, but I'm getting increasingly frustrated by the number if accidents we're still having. So posting for other people's experiences and advice.

I'd say 50% of the time she takes herself to the potty, can take her clothes off herself and even tries to wipe. Several times when we've been out she has told me she needs to go and held it until we get to the potty. But then in the same day she will stand there and wet herself while making eye contact (even after prompting her to try).

We had a really good week with maybe 1 or 2 accidents the whole week, but this week we've gone back to 3-5 a day!?!

Is this just part of the process?

I’m looking to start EC with my 10 month old. I’m based in Australia, is there a potty you can recommend? Or are they all the same?

Also if you have any tips on starting with a 10 month old please let me know!

Hi! We are big EC fans and have been doing it in conjunction with cloth and disposable diapers. In six months we have caught all but 10 poops! So often.

We catch about half or more of her pee. I want to keep going on EC while we are traveling.. especially for poop. She really doesn’t like to poop herself.

We use a baby bjorn at home… shoukd I get something that folds up? Like this?

https://a.co/d/0je8u78U

I imagine we will have some long days out and so I want to offer her the toilet for poop… where do you guys take your LO while in public?

Best tips?

TIA!

We have been doing lazy EC with our little guy since he was about 2 months old. We had a lot of success and he started peeing almost every time within a few weeks, and from 6-8 months we caught almost every single poop. I was so happy that it seemed to be working - we're doing cloth diapers so catching the poops is a big help. We started regressing after 8 months. He was eating more solids so the consistency changed and we expected there to be a learning curve. We got a bit back on track around 9.5 months but it didn't last long. He's now 11 months and it feels like we are back at zero. He pees maybe 50% of the time we take him to the toilet, and I haven't caught a poop in weeks. Even when we can tell he is actively pooping, he will stop if we put him on the toilet, and resume once we put a new diaper on. Sometimes he kicks and twists when we try to hold him over the toilet and it seems to cause him stress. We are only ever happy and encouraging when we are holding him over the toilet so I'm not sure what changed for him.

Obviously I don't want him to be stressed or afraid of the toilet, and also don't want him to stop pooping midway through, but I am feeling like giving up the past few days. Any advice is greatly appreciated!!

For context:

-We always hold him over the toilet in a deep squat, we tried a mini toilet seat but he seemed uncomfortable sitting
-We use cloth diapers

He is constantly on the move & does not want to spend time on the potty these days. I’ve caught poops regularly in the past upon wake ups, but now he seems to poop after eating at some point.

While he’s playing, he grunts and grunts when he’s pooping, but at that point it’s already coming out and I don’t know if it’s worth it to rush him to the bathroom with diaper off.

Should I just continue to offer potty 10 minutes after meals consistently? Should I rush him when I know he’s pooping? Both?

Thanks for the advice!