Potty Training Your Baby [Paperback]

Katie Pelt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2, 2002

Katie Van Pelt believes potty training can be started before a child's first birthday-and be fully completed by the second. In this common-sense guide, she outlines her unique "early-start" approach-and offers simple strategies that really work.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

This encyclopedic book on infant care will inform and comfort harried, anxious new or expectant parents. The authors, both mothers and nurses, cover myriad details in explaining the ways of the neonate. Their emphasis may puzzle some. For instance, when they describe how to wash a newborn's almost nonexistent neck, they point out that this spot is likely to collect lint and bacteria and they want to spare the new parent any embarrassing discoveries by a pediatrician or nurse during the first well-baby checkup. At times the authors patronize and impart astonishingly obvious information ("All boys are born uncircumcised"). Still, the volume abounds with important tips on such matters as safe crib criteria and taking a baby's temperature. Helpful sections on postpartum emotional adjustments address the needs of fathers as well as mothers. Illustrated.
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Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Signet (April 2, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451205308
• ISBN-13: 978-0451205308
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #928,538 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you Katie Van Pelt!, April 16, 2002

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Kirsten Commins (Saratoga, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Potty Training Your Baby (Paperback)

The only people giving her one star are people trying to train TODDLERS!! This is potty training for babies, and it DOES WORK. If you follow her advice and you are willing to spend the time, it will work. My son is 21 months old. I started him on the potty as soon as he could sit up (about 6 months old.) He picked it up very quickly. At 14 months I started letting him go bare-bottomed in my house (since he can't pull his own pants down yet.) Now, when we're home, he uses the potty for pee-pee and poo-poo. If he has a diaper on when we're not at home, he does go pee-pee in it, but I don't care about that because he ALWAYS goes poo-poo on the potty, and ONLY on the potty. I haven't changed a poopy diaper in at least 7 months. He can go pee-pee and sometimes poo-poo on demand. If I set him on the potty (big or little) he will go for me. I got this book when I was trying to potty train my daughter at 20 months. She also began using the potty, but not nearly as readily and not as reliably and it was just very frustrating (she was fully trained at 2 1/2 though). I believe the key is that you must start them before they know any different--before they want to test your limits and while they still want to please you. My son doesn't know any different. As far as he is concerned poo-poo goes on the potty and no where else. If you're one of those poeple who doesn't mind changing poopy diapers, then fine, don't use this method. But I am absolutely thrilled to be washing potties and not changing poopy diapers! I am so very thankful to Katie Van Pelt for writing this book so I didn't listen to all of those people who said I had to wait until they were 3 years old! Geeze!!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, June 9, 2004

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Sarah (Orlando, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Potty Training Your Baby (Paperback)

I started using this book when my son was 7 months old. He is now 22 months old and almost completely potty trained, without any fights, hassle or stress. The main thing about this book that is different from the others is that it sees potty training as something that takes 12-18 months, not something to be done in a weekend or two. Its premise is that you teach children all the necessary skills to using the potty so that when their body is ready, the skills are already there. This book does NOT claim that your child will (or should be) potty trained at 12 months of age. The book does point out that it is a much more difficult process to potty train a child who is 2+ and who has already reached the age of "NO"!

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Characterized by genlte technique and sound philosophy, February 15, 2000

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"mcgavern" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Potty Train Your Baby (Paperback)

This book goes against the grain of popular thinking today that focuses on "toilet teaching" at a later age.

The gentle techniques proposed by the author follow a philosophy that a young baby can begin to develop control of muscles that are not yet fully developed themselves (which is consistent with other developmental processes like sitting-up and walking), and that teaching this control is quite effective at an age where the baby is more compliant to sitting on a potty than a two-year old would be.

My wife and I started toilet training our daughter at about 12 months. At 18 months she started wearing panties, and by 22 months was completely out of diapers. All without the frustrations and struggles that seem to be prevalent among our peers. We highly recommend the book.