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I just got done reading it, and am in the middle of PT DS right now. I decided against it, because I don't have that kind of mental stability. I am so stressed PT without dealing with overnight and nap pees, I can't imagine attempting it. I think that's for people who stay home or can take a week off of work. I plan on cutting the naptime diaper out fairly quickly, though, and hope that leads to a smoother nighttime training.

We only went to underwear during the day (well, first we went pants-less, and then we went to underwear, which is a progression I highly recommend!). I'm familiar with Glowacki's ideas (her book wasn't out when LO trained) and I like a lot of them, but night "training" did not work for us until much more recently. LO trained around 2.5 years old and was way beyond even the occasional daytime accident before he could reliably wake up at night. As in, a year plus beyond being fully, no-accidents-at-all trained. I stressed about it for a little while, but there was no way I was going to purposely wake him up in the middle of the night. (Just...no. I'm not opposed to doing things the "hard" way if it's clearly better, but this suggestion seems to be both hard on everyone and kind of pointless.) He has no trouble holding it all night now and only gets up to go on the very rare occasion that he's had a lot of water in the evening.

We did the "throw out diapers" thing but still put him in pull ups at night. (We did no pants, then pants no underwear, then underwear and pants). BUT he night/nap trained himself. He still wears pull ups at night but they are always dry and he wakes to tell us he has to pee. Frankly I wish he'd just go in his pull up because it is a huge PITA to get up in the middle of the night so he can pee. He is only 2.5 so he won't go on his own. He needs help pulling down/up his pants and getting on the potty correctly.

@Truth Bombs: my daycare was definitely on board with us sending her in undies before we felt she was ready. But she was already at the stage of telling us when she needed to pee'. Not still in diapers and never potty trained.

@Applesandbananas: I'm surprised they're willing to deal with the trauma of a child that has peed all over themselves during nap time!

I also read the book and we start a week from Monday! I have the week off and have pulled L from daycare that week, and we are going to bite the bullet and do it all at once. He generally does best with cold turkey transitions and would totally be the kid holding in his pee and poop until nap time or bedtime if he knows he's getting a diaper then.

So obviously no advice since we haven't started yet, but sounds like we're on the same page! I got some bed pads from Walmart that stick to the top of the sheets and are soft and quite absorbent to hopefully minimize middle of the night sheet changes.

I also have some training pants I bought for him that feel/look more like regular underwear. I haven't decided if I'll put them on him for extra protection at nap time or not. Having the same debate about the car, because we'll still have to go pick up his brother from day care, so car rides those first few days are inevitable.

We successfully went cold turkey for daytime, regressed over a vacation and gave up for a bit (back in diapers), then did the same method again and it stuck long term. But there's no way, even at 3+, that she's ready for overnight training yet. Even if she naps for more than 1.5 or 2 hrs, she falls into such a deep sleep that she wakes up wet. I don't think I can train her to control that, and since she's not consciously peeing her pull up at night, I don't think she's at all confused about why she goes in the toilet in daytime but wears a pull up overnight.