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Please successfully do this! I was contemplating attempting with L while I'm on Maternity leave in Sept and my parents are in-town for a week - plenty of help and stuck at home time. So, your success would give me a lot of hope... haha

I think you could try it. We just PT'd at 25 months and it wasn't too hard (although we have yet to master pooping (he saves it for naptime and nighttime when he's still in a diaper). What worked for us was just taking him every 30 minutes to potty and rewarded him every time his underwear were still dry, then slowly moved it to 45 minutes, then an hour. He still doesn't tell us when he has to go (but usually tells the truth when we ask him), but he hasn't had an accident in awhile because we just regularly put him on the toilet and he's figured out to hold it until then (or tell us, but that's rare).

I say go for it, we've been messing with it since she was about 17 months, but now at 21 she's lost interest.

@birdofafeather: That's what I was thinking - give it a shot, and if it doesn't work, so be it!

LO is 17 months and we're thinking of slowly starting to get her on a potty. She's been pointing to her diaper when she goes and she wants to be changed immediately. You're generally supposed to start when LO starts telling you before they go.

@birdofafeather: I've actually read a few places that there is usually a window period around 18 months where LOs become really aware of the whole diaper/potty thing. And if you can catch that opportunity to train, it can be done! Or else, it seems it happens around 2.5 y.o. Sooo I say, go for it! I've been meaning to read the book and try it around 18 months too! We have put the potty in the bathroom since she was walking. I always try to put her on it while I go to the bathroom, to get comfortable with it. Just recently she starts going to sit on it herself, so I'm hoping to catch that window period too!

@.twist.: Me too!

I'm all about trying! We've been introducing E to it for a while, including naked sitting on the potty time. We haven't pushed it only because they don't reinforce it at daycare until he's in the next room up, and we wanted to be consistent between there and home.

@birdofafeather: if you call yourself crazy, you will feel crazy. Why not try it and if she doesn't like it, try again in a few months.

I read Diaper Free Before 3 (quite informative, found it at my library), and started with the little potty at 18 months. By 22 months, my daughter was ready to ditch diapers, though we didn't move to full time undies until about 25 months. Sounds like your LO is well ready for the approach suggested in that book. Good luck!

We just bought a potty! J has started telling us when he needs to go. Of course when we put him on his potty he won't go but I am hoping he is starting to associate the two. We also let him sit on it after bath for a while when we let him run around nakey

Keep me updated!

I don't think it's crazy, I believe Mrs. Tic Tac Toe:'s showed early signs and she was successful in training around 18 months!

ETA: I was trained around 13 months through elimination communication (too early in my opinion) and I had bed wetting accidents until grade school!

Haha..I felt crazy when I trained early. like I was the only one but I was so pleased with the results. I did. Besides little pee is easier to clean up than big pee.