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Sigh, if you would have asked me last week I would have said "it was so much easier than expected." We did the 3 day potty training over Thanksgiving, still putting a pull up on her at nap and nighttime. She was doing great, having very few accidents UNTIL this weekend. She has been awful, having 3-4 accidents, pooping in her pants which she's never done, and saying she's a baby. This is a regression that is solely because we devoted time to baby sister's nursery this weekend and she's jealous,. but it's not going away. after a month and 1/2 of doing so good, it's the worst it's ever been.

We had a great experience. My goal was to have LO potty trained by 2 (which didn't happen). By 22 months she was doing a lot of pees in her potty, and by 23 months she did all pees in the potty when she was naked (if she wasn't naked and had a pull up, she'd go in her pull up). I felt like I would never get her to go poop in the potty. I tried everything, but every time she had to poop she would beg for a diaper.

At 26 months we didnt really follow a method, but just decided to hit potty training hard. She did her first poop in the potty during this time, and then it was a breeze from there. It took about 2-3 days and she was totally trained. On day 2 or 3 we had to go somewhere and I didn't want to put her in a diaper and Confuse her. So we went out in undies and to my surprise, she used the public toilet! That was our "aha" moment and she's had MAYBE 5 accidents TOTAL since then (this was in early August).

She wore nighttime pullups for 2 months but since then has been night trained, too.

I guess what I learned I that I just had to follow her. I could set 2 as a goal all I wanted, but it wouldn't happen if she wasn't ready. At 26 months it was almost like she said "okay, I'm gonna do this," and it happened. I also needed to take the step to leave the house and give her a little bit of control in the situation. I just trusted her and she surprised me. We have never had an accident in public!

Also, I found that until she really recognized the sensation of "needing to go," we only had success when she was nude. Putting undies on her was confusing (maybe it "cushioned" her feeling of needing to go?) and she would have accidents when we were pee training.

@photojane: it's 11am and we just had our first accident but A has used the potty 2-3 times this morning and she's currently running round with no pants on whatsoever!

@photojane: I hope this isn't threadjacking, and if it is and I should start my own thread, just tell me!

How have your littles responded to being naked? C will tell me that he needs to "poop" (he calls any bodily function poop, even though he almost always means pee), and I put him on the potty, but he refuses to go. He holds it until I put his diaper back on. I've tried leaving him naked from the waist down and he freaks out, gets really upset, and won't calm down until I put his diaper and pants back on him. He does not like to be naked unless it's to get in the bath or shower...

It seems like he should be ready (he'll be 3 the end of next month), but he's really resisting using either the small potty we got him or the potty seat that fits on the big potty. Just refuses and cries if DH pushes the issue / tries to keep him from getting up and off the potty.

I know he won't go to college in diapers, but DH and I are so ready for him to train!