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Katherine Ryan shares how she potty trained her eight-month-old son

Katherine Ryan shared how she potty trained her eight-month-old son Fred.

The comedian - who has a daughter called Violet from a previous relationship - shares the little one with childhood sweetheart Bobby Koostra.

She explained how she basically skipped the nappy stage

Taking to her Instagram Stories, Katherine wrote: " 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.

"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!"

She previously opened up about how she potty trained her 12-year-old daughter and said she started off with standard nappies.

Katherine potty trained her son by eight months old (kathbum/Instagram)
She shares Fred with partner Bobby (kathbum/Instagram)

Most children are potty trained between 18 and 24 months.

She told NME a few years ago: “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.”

Katherine gave birth to little Fred in June last year and even returned to work 10 days after.

She shared the exciting news on Instagram with a photo of herself posing with the little one in her arms.

The star joked: "I have a really good reason why yesterday's podcast is late." She also quipped that the baby came right in time for the football.

She used the same method on her daughter Violet (Mike Marsland/WireImage)
Bobby and Katherine reunited in recent years (kathbum/Instagram)

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Katherine and Bobby have been in a civil partnership since 2019 when they showed their commitment to each other in a low-key ceremony in Denmark.

They'd reunited the year previous after a chance encounter brought them back into each other's lives.

She told the Mail at the time of her wedding: "I don't want a big occasion because of the history of it and the fact women used to belong to their fathers and then belong to their husbands and put on a white dress because they're virgins, I mean I think it's gross and I don't want to do it.

"I appreciate that other people like to have a party but again I get to put on beautiful dresses and not have to make an invite list and arrange seating and hire a DJ, I just don't want to do those things at all."

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