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@littlejoy: We have a potty in his room, although I recently moved it when he went through a bout of dehydration and I didn't want him to feel like I was pressuring him to pee. We started using it around 5 months when we noticed that every time we took off his diaper he'd pee buckets. It's hilarious when he sits and farts and laughs at himself.

ETA: Not hilarious was the time I angled his parts wrong and his pee stream hit the shield wrong and he ended up peeing on a piece of artwork we had sitting against the wall.

I have a girlfriend who did this, and her child was day trained at 20 months. I won't make a big thing of it, but I plan to have a potty, and to put my next child on it at times.

We bought a little potty around 12 months and let him start exploring. He follows me to the bathroom and we talk about whats going on, and he always wants to help flush DH always has him sit on the potty before bath time, and when he pees in the bath tub he talks to him about the fact that he is peeing. A week ago he put LO on the potty and asked him if he could put his pee in the potty...and he did! He did it the next morning, that night, and then a couple more nights this week. We aren't pressuring him and if he doesn't want to sit there we don't make him. We have a new baby coming in a couple weeks so we aren't ready to "potty train" but its fun to see him interested! I was floored that he just peed in the potty like it was nothing! LO is 22 months.

We started a relaxed version of EC at 3 months. We put her on the toilet with a Bumbo potty seat and she'd poop or pee if she needed to go. At 15 months we decided to go all in and we used the 3 day potty training method to fully train her. She's 19 months now and has been fully trained since then. We still put a diaper on her at night, but she hasn't wet her self a night in at least a month. I love that we started on a real toilet so early because she's always been comfortable on it. When she was tiny she didn't know enough to be scared of it and by the time she was older she was used it and it was no big deal.

@photojane: That's interesting! I was thinking of getting LO (almost 15 months) a potty to "get used to" because she seems very interested in my bathroom habits. I never thought about it being a toy and confusing her.

@photojane: Done?! Way to go!! I guess I should say R is potty trained now since she's only in diapers for naps and night time but she still has an accident every day or so (usually our fault for not taking her before we get in the car) so I haven't called it yet! Ha.

We introduced the seat around a year and around 18 months, she might go on it before her bath. We read books, etc. I had grand plans to train earlier but traveling made me not pull the trigger. Around 22 months, she went on her own twice in a row when we were home so we started from there. A couple set backs due to accidents/ laziness and holidays, but we got back on track at 23 months and she's been pretty good by 24 months here.

It's totally doable! We started putting LO on the potty as soon as he could sit, and would act all excited about it - "yay! pee pee!" lol. He got it pretty quickly, though it was months before he was ready to potty train for real.

@photojane: I totally count day trained!! Glad you pushed through!!