Poop training at 8 months?

[sent]

I just read this on a FB mommy board.  A mom is elated to have suceeded poop training an 8 month old.  She attributed her success to singing a poop related jingle from 4 months old.  The other responses were like "I did this too with mine. Wow.  Awesome. I'm going to try.  Just stick your kid on a baby potty as soon as they can sit."  Not a single raised eyebrow in the responses.  If it matters, this was a page where many of the moms grew up in Asia but now live here.

I don't know what to think.  Is this really a thing?  Is this a cultural thing?  

[sent]

Yeah I vaguely remember that EC debate so is that what this is?

[spk926]

Her child is not poop trained. SHE may be trained, but her kid isn't.

[scribellesam]

I have a crazy FB "friend" I keep around for amusement who is claiming that her 6mo son is "within months" of being out of diapers because of EC. Why do you want to spend your whole day on high alert for your baby's poop grunts?

[Deleted]

I mean, his poops have been pretty predictable got a long time but I just have better things to do than watch for them. Plus he pooped four times today so God bless diapers.

[VillainV]

It's really obvious when my kid is about to poop, but I have no desire to rush him to a toilet and strip him down every time his face turns beet red. Yay for diapers.

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May 23, 2015 21:37:39 GMT -5 Jennyanydots said:

This would never work with my 9-month old. She is the most stealth pooper ever.

Mine is 17 months and still has ninja poops.  Though at 9 months, she used to crawl under the Exersaucer pretty regularly to take care of her business.  How were we supposed to get her out of there and run to the potty in time?  

Once my husband was changing a poop diaper when she was itty bitty and randomly said to DD "Is there poo in your bum?"  Since then we've been saying that phrase to her every single time she poops.  She has yet to answer the question or give any indication she understands it!  

I am very suspect of the poop themed jingle being the key to success.  

[gibbinator]

And here I can't even convince my 3yr old that pooping in the potty is a legitimate option.

[auntie]

This is partly cultural; some societies do this.

50-100 years ago it wasn't uncommon in the US. I have an vintage child care book that discusses the "process" including suppositories to help promote regularity which was considered "healthy".

FTR, my late MIL claims all of her kids were trained by 6 months. Given that they could walk and their arms weren't long enough to reach their own asses, I side eye this.

www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/11/bad_baby_advice_a_history.html

[anna7602]

I have a method. It's called "don't ever feed DS sweet potatoes after 1pm unless I want him to wake MOTN with a massive poop." Should I try to proselytize to the masses?

[penguingrrl]

I'll be honest and say that I'm not interested in potty training before the kid is basically doing it on their own. Having a newly potty trained kid is a PITA that I'd rather put off as long as possible. Lazy, party of 1!

[sillygoosegirl]

We got a late start because of her GI issues, but it's going really well now that she is healthy. We've taken a relaxed approach of just putting her on the potty during diaper changes, and when we check her and she's dry. Once she figured out what it is for, she seems to prefer going on the potty, so we're catching a lot, even though I've had no luck at learning her cues, and she isn't signing back yet to tell me when she needs to go.

I don't feel like it's more work than cloth diapering. Actually, I think it's less work, because we're producing much less laundry now, and wiping her bottom for her is easier when she pooped in the potty rather than in her diaper.

The only part of it that's been significant effort was altering a couple of the cloth diaper covers so I can take them only half off for her to use the potty and get them back on more easily if they are still clean, since she is super wiggly and otherwise it's like a freaking wrestling match to get a diaper onto her right now. I would have bought something, but that's the trouble with doing stuff that isn't mainstream: nobody sells the gear to go with it.

Not sure when we will stop using diaper backups, but I've read 9 months to 1 year is typical.