She Pooped on the Potty!!!

Potty training is tricky business. It's not just them understanding the concept of peeing & pooping in the potty but also having the muscular control to hold it until they get to the potty. If she is showing favorably in both of these areas, I would start with her own potty. She is very young so even an over the toilet seat attachment may be too big for her. A lot of the little individual potties will convert to an attachment seat for the adult potty anyway. Good luck! I hope it works out for ya!

YAAAAYYYYY!!!
Whistles!
Applause!!
WOO HOO.

You were in the right place at the right time.
If she's usually pooping at about the same time every day,
you can try putting her on a potty (or kiddy seat on big toilet)
at about that time each day and encouraging her.

HOWEVER . . . . this may have just been a fluke.
If you haven't talked about, encouraged, read books about, etc.,
this topic, it may be premature to expect big girl behavior.
Yet.

We had a little book about a little girl elephant and her potty chair.
We had started reading it together around that age,
and my DD figured it out from reading the book
and seeing the (conveniently placed) potty chair.

But if you haven't (yet) laid the groundwork,
it might be unrealistic to expect follow-up behavior.

You know your daughter. Does she learn new things quickly?
If you have a conversation with her about this momentous event,
does she seem to understand what you're telling her?

However it goes, congratulations!
I could feel your excitement and joy all the way here.

About potty chair versus big toilet . . . .
I personally like a little potty chair close to the floor.
I think it's better for independence and safety.
However, if she's comfortable with climbing up using a step-stool,
and you're not worried she'll fall off . . . .

She's young so don't push the issue, but if she's willing then just keep doing what you did after her bath. Watch her signals and sit her on the potty regularly, and if she goes make sure to give lots of love and if not who cares, she's got lots of time still.

As for the potty, if she's a little one a potty chair may be better because then she does have the option to go in alone and go, either way though, I say let her pick out what she wants, it's part of the fun.

I started all my kids the minute they showed any interest and ended up with both my boys potty trained by age 2, and my daughter still in pullups at night till her 4th birthday, even though she started using the potty at about 18months. So be prepared, that she could lose interest, but again she's young and it's early so don't stress if she does, just give it awhile and go back to it when she's a bit older if that does happen.

Yay! so happy for you and your daughter! Well, at this point, you can do whatever you want...I chose not to buy a potty for my kid because I knew I would get grossed out cleaning it, so I purchased a seat that went over the toilet instead, which was a waste for us because he never wanted to use it, he wanted to potty like a grown-up. So, whenever he looked like he was about to go, I would quickly scoop him up and offer potty. He sometimes said no, so I respected his choice, but when he said yes, and he did it...celebration! I would give him a sticker, tell daddy if he was around, do a "potty dance," and call g-ma and g-pa to inform everyone of the great news! He liked that attention, so eventually he would say no to potty less and less, until he now goes consistently in the potty. I still praise him (not as much, though) to reinforce that what he is doing is special.

Yay!! Hopefully she'll continue to keep going, if not, that's OK, she's still young. I got both the little potty (that when closed can be used as a little stool to step up on) & the little seat that goes on the big potty. We kept her little potty in the family room, that way if she really needed to go & couldn't make it across the house to the regular potty (b/c let's face it, little ones seem to hold it to the very last minute). Good luck!

LOL...you are too funny. The things that gets us moms all excited! Congratulations. If she doesn't get worked up about the big toilet, let her use that one and buy one of those child seat covers so she can do it herself later.

Definitely don't push it. But, get her own little cute potty chair and when you go in the there to potty, bring her (she can sit with her clothes on), hang out, read a book, sing a song. Make it a happy experience.

I truly think you are jumping the gun on this. She squatted because she needed to go and this position helped her push. You are the one who held her over the toilet. And at 15 months, if you make a big deal about it, your efforts may end up backfiring as it did with a friend of mine who pushed the envelope with her oldest. The child ended up not being potty trained until she was almost four.
I'd suggest you get a small potty and just leave it in the bathroom. Don't make an issue of it, just let it sit there and let your daughter observe it. If she wants to try using it, great. But for now, let her get used to seeing it.

Oh, don't overwhelm her! My son pooped really early, but he wasn't ready to go for it yet. I got the potty and put it in his room and he could sit on it if he wanted. It got him used to it, and we would ask if he wanted to use it. The only time we pushed it was when he was dry overnight and his daytime diapers couldn't handle that build up of pee, but he wasn't even ready for that. I would say let her lead you, and she will let you know when she is ready. If she wants to go, great, if not, that is fine too. Praise her if she wants to go, but don't react if she doesn't.

You can do either. I think having a little potty is easier. It's definitely not too early! Get a book on early potty training like "Potty Training Your Baby". Your local library might have something, if not you can always find stuff for cheap through half.com or amazon used books or ebay.

YAAAYYY! That's awesome. Way to capitalize on an opportunity! I recommend an over the seat adapter. That way she will feel like a big girl and model what she sees everyone else do. Far less messy and saves having to make a transition later. Also cheaper - only 12 bucks! It's good to put her on the potty as often as you can stand it. Read books, sing songs, sit as mush as possible at first. That way you can celebrate everytime she goes. There are some seats that sing or make music when they go as a reward, but you can sing and do a happy dance for her when she does it. Oh I remember the day I gave all my unused diapers and bottles away - we went to Chuckee Cheese and partied like crazy!

Personally I never used a baby toilet seat for my two boys. I just put them on the big pot and let them go. If you want to go that route, go for it, sounds like your daughter might be ready..... some of them do potty train quite early. You just have to be in there with her so she doesnt fall in ;)