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I haven't hit that milestone yet, but somehow, my SIL managed to potty train all 4 of her LO's before 2. I plan on asking her oodles of advice the time comes for me! I think she uses a high reward system.

Nope. DD was interested around 18 months so we followed her lead. She told us before going a few times and did it and that was it. She's 26 months and still not trained, but every few weeks gets interested and will do it. I'm due with #2 any day now so never wanted to push anything until after that happened. I think she would respond well if we went for it, I just have no interest right now lol. Maybe at the end of
My maternity leave we will get serious.

Mine just turned two and he's been mostly trained since 21 months. Mostly trained meaning:
-undies except naps and sleep and longer car rides just in case
-expresses when he needs to go but needs our help taking off pants an undies
-averages an accident every two weeks (usually if he's tired and crying really hard, or in car, or really excited/distracted)
-squirts a little in his undies if he's distracted/excited sometimes

I just got him familiar with the potty from a young age and just kept putting him on at random times.. I also let him be pant less a lot so I could "read" him and take him to potty easily.. It was a lot of trial and error but I am thankful not to have two in diapers and be over te hardest part of training. I also do not miss cleaning massive poos stuck to his bum. I will attempt nap training and night training when he's able to independently take off his clothes...

I potty trained a little girl I babysat at 18 months. She was SO READY, but still needed some help (reminders and help with her clothing) she didn't nap and night train until later when she could go on her own and was no long sleeping in the crib.

My LO is 14 months. He will sometimes tell me when he needs to pee (he makes the peeing sound from EC when he was little) and we take his pants off and he pees. Some in the potty and more right after on the floor, we are working on getting more of it in the potty. He can hold it and make himself pee so he has pretty good awareness. Poop is a whole different thing and I keep him in a diaper when I think that might happen. I try to talk to him about pooping every time he poops. My hope is to keep his connection with his body active and have the potty around a lot and when he is ready for more it's there. He pees on the floor a lot....

We did EC so we started really early. My daughter did really well! Had a little regression when she entered preschool at exactly 2 years old. Poop and nighttime was a breeze. Occasional daytime pee accidents were messy and a bit of a hassle (but it was small amounts of pee) before 18 months.

We did EC when LO was a baby and then 3 day potty training at 15 months. It went very well. After that, she had a few pee accidents, but she always pooped in the potty. I will say that she had a bit of a regression at 2.5 when LO2 was born. But overall we had a good experience with early potty training.

Elimination communication. Its basically watching for your baby's "signals" that they need to go and putting them on the potty at that time.
Honestly, I was not good at reading signals so I just put her on the potty when I changed her diaper and when she woke up in the morning and after naps. I was pretty relaxed about it.

My mom potty trained both my brother and I at 18 months. She babysits LO full-time while we are at work, and plans to do the same with LO.

@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: my introduction was from a Nepali friend; she says everyone does it there. I noticed that my babe was obvious about her need to poop, so I decided to try holding her over the toilet. Then I learned more from reading The Diaper Free Baby (an inaccurate title, it should be the Change Fewer Poopy Diapers Book!). There are also some pages online about EC.

@Iced Tea: LOL! That's the book I read too! I was first interested in how things were being done internationally as well.