Cueing baby?

I'm not sure if this answers your question.  Early on, whenever I notice my girl is peeing, I will say "shh...shh..."  When I notice her pooping, then I will say, "ngg... ngg.." (kind of sound like hmm.. hmm...)

It's teaching her to verbalize her "need" and also cueing her to let her know, "okay, you're on the potty now.  you can feel free go shh... shh... if you need to."

She is now a 2-yr-old.  She loves the potty a lot because we get to spend one-on-one time together.  Some times, she even forgets why she's on the potty.  I have to remind her some times, "shhh... shh...." or "nng... nng...."

Very early on, she can verbalize what she is doing or what she did.  We are still working on verbalizing it before it happens.  =)  She can do it once or twice a day (or none a day).

You are right, it's like turning on the faucet to give her the cue... just less wasting of water.  =)  Some children/people have a hard time concentrating to pee, they sometimes need the faucet sound to drown out other distractions.

I don't cue with a sound, I cue wth a sign. I started with dry diaper sign when changing her and also a poopy sign and a potty sign. When she sits on the potty, I make the potty sign wit her hand and she goes.