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Hello and welcome to this week's podcast for parents.

Who knows what will be expected of little Archie Harrison when it comes to potty training?

All we know thus far is that his father's been changing nappies, which suggests he

won't be going through the latest trend, which is to hold a baby from birth, over the toilet,

and have them out of nappies from the get-go?

What does work best with least anxiety for the parent and the child and how have trends changed

over the years?

Well Rebecca Motram is a children's nurse who runs her own company,

specialising in potty training. Christina Hardiman is an historian and the author

of Dream Babies. When was potty training first introduced?

Well, it was right there in the very first manuals.

It was taken for granted that you would start straight away with potty training and what the baby did was lie

across the lap you would have a tiny potty underneath it be quite comfy and you'd

make encouraging noises and that sort of thing.

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