Summer Infant Lil' Loo Potty, Teal and White

Best potty out there!I have this and the more expensive Bjorn. I bought the similar Bjorn first at a yard sale, but I wanted a second potty for the bathroom my son uses in the morning. This potty is like a quarter of the price, and much better!The white insert can only be inserted front-ways with the pee-guard facing out, unlike the Bjorn, where my toddler tries to jam the insert in backwards. This averts a lot of accidents, especially with boys. It is also larger and it has a more substantial back, which my toddler 2 year-old finds more comfortable. He nearly always refuses to use the Bjorn potty and will seek out this "blue potty" almost exclusively. You can see in my photo that this potty is much wider and comfortable looking than the Bjorn.I haven't had any issues with staining, but I empty and clean the insert and wipe in dry right after he uses it. It's eay to keep clean, sometimes things collect in the rim under the white insert, so I do a deep clean once a week or so.

I had this great idea when my toddler started talking about the potty that we were going to skip the toddler potty all together. I spent a crazy amount of money on replacing all my toilet seats with those with the built in toddler seat that stores in the lid and step stools. A couple days later, excited to give them a try, I tried to set my toddler on the toilet only to be met with screams of terror. Apparently the big potty is one of the scariest things he's even encountered in his 2 years of life.Not wanting to miss his interest in trying, I started looking at stand alone potties. And, wow!, there's so many options. Potties with padded seats, potties with handles, potties that sing or talk or have fun characters. But I have no desire to clean under the nooks and crannies of seats with weird accessories, and don't want to pay an arm and a leg for some character decals. So I happened across this one, and the price was just right. I went ahead and ordered and it arrived in just a couple days.And then it sat, lonely in the corner, because my kid wasn't ready to sit on the potty. But it made a good seat for his stuffed animals to sit, and he started reading them his potty books (Potty, by Leslie Patricelli is a favorite). Fast forward a couple months and he's started sitting on it in his clothes, then actually sitting on it with no pants, and hallelujah, he happened to pee last week while sitting on it, and suddenly the potty is this amazing new idea! Now he wants to sit on the potty nightly, both because he's excited to try, and because he thinks he can use it as a negotiating tool to get to watch just one more show before bed (well played toddler, well played). I guess it's comfortable, because he'll sit there for 30 min. or more sometimes, and aside from a red tush and the protest of turning off the TV, he's had no complaints. The bowl is plenty wide, and so far no splashing.So all of that was a really long way of saying, you don't need all those bells and whistles, because you're kid isn't going to go potty because Mickey's face is staring at him. They'll go potty when they're ready. In the meantime, arm yourself with a well-made, stable, and affordable potty, and save the other money for the carpet cleaner you'll need when your excited toddler jumps up to tell you they went..as they are still peeing on your floor.

It is a quality and sturdy potty, for great price. BUT the seat is wide. If you have a narrow bodied child, go with the baby born potty. My daughter was very uncomfortable with this wider summer infant potty because she is slim and complained she was falling in. See my pics but summer infant width was 9 inches, compared to 7.5 inches for the baby born. Otherwise it's a great inexpensive potty option.

About a year and a half ago, our twins were 2 1/2 years old when they started showing some interest in the potty. We decided we should purchase two toddler potties so we didn't run into issues where they would fight over them or have accidents while waiting for the other one to finish. Since we needed to buy two and didn't want to spend a lot of money, I started looking closely at options that were good and fairly inexpensive. The Summer Infant Lil' Loo Potty looked like our best option since we could purchase two potties for about $20 so we ordered the raspberry one for our daughter and the teal one for our son.These potties are made in the USA of plastic. They measure about 12 inches across the seat and 12 inches tall at the highest point in the back. The seat sits about 6 inches off the ground. The removable bowl itself measures 9 inches across (includes the part where kids sit) and the hole measures 5 inches wide by 7 1/2 inches long. It has a splash guard for boys to prevent urine from getting all over the floor. There is a high back so kids can lean back if they want and four rubber pieces on the bottom to prevent slippage. The maximum weight for these potties is 50 pounds.Our twins didn't use these right away and started potty training a little later but, once they started, these worked well for us. I have boy/girl twins and we found these potties work well for both genders. They are the perfect height for small children and my kids were able to sit down on their potties by themselves. When we first started potty training, we bought some stickers so they could decorate their potties since the potties are a bit plain and that was a fun activity for them! The bowl is easy to clean because once my kids have done their business, I just remove the bowl, dump it in the big toilet, and clean out the bowl. At the end of the day or after they do #2, I wipe out the potties with antibacterial wipes and that keeps them fairly clean. You can also bleach the potties if there is some staining.I found just one issue that caused me to rate these potties four stars instead of five stars. There are four rubber feet on the bottom to prevent slipping but my kids will sometimes spend way too much time scooting across the floor. Usually this isn't a big problem and I'm sure my kids aren't the only ones that like to move around while sitting on the potties. I also didn't consider the fact that there is no lid so the potties are open to everything. Before my kids started regularly using them, they put their toys in them which wasn't a problem at the time but it's something to consider. Once they started using them all the time, they haven't put anything inside them which is good because then I'd have to clean up the toys! For the price, the absence of a lid has been mostly okay and I can't really complain too much.Overall, these potties have worked well for us for the past year and a half. They were a good size for my kids for the majority of the time and now my kids are almost four and a bit too big so they've now moved onto the big potty. I'd say the positives outweigh the couple negatives I found and the price we paid was excellent! If you are looking for a potty for your little one(s) and don't want to spend a lot of money or need to buy several for different rooms in your house, the babysitter's, or grandma's, these are a good option.. They come in bright, fun colors for both boys and girls, are easy to clean, and won't drain your wallet. I'd definitely recommend them to anyone who is starting to potty train because they've worked well for us and held up nicely!