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@wrkbrk: Perfect! Good luck to you!!

We potty trained DS at 2.25 and it went really well. I really really hated it, but it went fine . We did it in the winter and I hated being stuck in the house and worrying about him peeing and pooping all over.

We are debating training my almost 2 year old DD this weekend, but IDK if I'm up for it. I want it over, but she's way more stubborn than he was.

I would not train at night. Waking kids up to potty sounds like to craziest thing in the world to me. We kept DS in diapers or pull ups until he was consistently dry and it was no big deal.

The one thing I'll do differently this time is no pull ups except at night. Last time we got lazy and once he realized he could pee in them with no consequence they were treated exactly like a diaper.

Although we didn’t train her LO never peed her diaper at night after about six months old. I think it is because we took her to pee every single morning. We wouldn’t lounge around too long after waking on almost all days. It was up and at em first thing, like adults.

We did this last 4th of July when LO was 26 mos. We skipped bottomless for more-or-less the same reasons @DESERTDREAMS88 mentioned.

Even a year later, the time between "I need to pee" and "oops" is only about 15 minutes. When we're at home or spending a long time in a familiar place, we leave it to LO to self-initiate other than first thing in the morning and before bed. There are conditions were we prompt: We always make a trip to the loo before getting in the car (even if he just went 30 minutes ago), and every 90 minutes while we're on a long drive or while out-and-about in an unfamiliar place.

We started off using pullups for nap and overnight. We dropped pullups for nap really early since he was almost always dry. We kept using pullups for 6-7mos overnight -- he spent a really long time being dry 9 times out of 10 without any apparent progress. Eventually, he just said he didn't want to wear pullups at night, so we stopped. In the last 5-6 mos we've only had 3 nighttime accidents.

@wrkbrk: yeah I really think the author knows what she's talking about with the between 2 and 3 to train.

We also never woke him up once to pee in the middle of the night for what that's worth. Ain't no way I was going to be waking a sleeping baby up to pee.

@wrkbrk: Yeah, the poop in underwear was unfortunate. It was about once a day for a couple weeks. We thought about washing them and decided it wasn't worth it, wouldn't go on forever, and underwear are cheap! So we tossed one pair a day for a little while. I have to say, someone here suggested the idea of "catching" the poop timing by doing it 10 min after meals and it was a lifesaver. We actually went one step further and had her run around after the meal for 10 min to get things moving. Worked like a charm, and now she requests "poopin time" so she can sit and try for a bit. Also, all the rewards. We have used "special candy" (fruit snacks) as well as special cereal, cookies, stickers, dollar store toys, etc. Anything that will keep her motivated and keep the experience positive. Our girl is not one you want to butt heads with about anything. Positive reinforcement (or bribes) work so much better.

@wrkbrk: I think that's just the optimum time for it to happen, not necessarily that that meal is going through that fast. Either way, it worked for us! She didn't really have a super regular schedule, and really still doesn't, but doing it that way helped her figure out what it feels like and how to do it on the potty!

@wrkbrk: That's hilarious, and perfect!

@wrkbrk: How's Day 1 gone?