Katherine Ryan has revealed that she has potty trained her baby son at under eight months old, but knows she will receive ‘backlash’ from some.
The comedian, 38, who has 12-year-old daughter Violet from a past relationship and baby Fred with husband Bobby Kootstra, revealed that she tries to skip the nappy stage entirely with her children and train them to use a potty from the off.
She took to Instagram to reveal: ‘I hate to even write this because I know I’ll get backlash but for those who know about my potty training ethos and success with baby Violet…
‘Fred reliably wees on the potty at under 8 months and we can count the amount of 2022 soiled nappies on one hand.’
Katherine added: ‘I didn’t know whether it would work with Fred. It does. Potty train babies before they learn to go in nappies!!! They can do it!’
The average age most children get potty trained is between 18 and 24 months, though some can be even later.
Katherine shared a screenshot of a message from one of her followers who was thinking to try her method with their own 15-month-old baby.
The comic responded: ‘You’re too late lol. He’s smart now and he knows what he wants so if you go to train him, he might be like “nah thanks you’re alright” but good luck!
‘They all learn eventually and doing it the transitional was is fine too xx. Impossible to do it my way BTW if you’re at work.’
She added: ‘I have explained my method everywhere – my book, my podcast, BBC Room 101…. It’s so simple but takes dedication and an open mind.’
Katherine had previously explained her theory that using nappies is effectively training a child to soil themselves and that babies can be trained to use the potty from a young age.
She told The Guardian in November that she was planning to potty train Fred as soon as she could, explaining: ‘Remember, the absence of training is still training. By putting them in a nappy you’re training them to go in a nappy.
‘People can disagree, I don’t care. But I do care when I have to share a space with a four-year-old in a nappy.’
She also explained to NME in 2015: ‘My daughter wore standard nappies as a newborn. But when she started on solid foods, I could see in her face when she needed to poop.
‘I’d whip her onto the potty as quickly as possible, then celebrate after she’d been. In addition, she’d be rewarded with about an hour of nappyless nudity. Bliss.’
She also tweeted in 2018: ‘When you put a nappy on your child, you’re not delaying training. You ARE training them to go in their pants.
‘Skip that bit and toilet train as soon as possible and they won’t need to unlearn anything. X’
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