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We just potty trained last week at 2 years, 8 months! woohoo!! he's even staying dry at night (no diaper at night either).

I'm planning to potty train this coming weekend over Labor Day! She will be a few days shy of 20-months. I'll let you know how it goes!

We did EC with DD (as you know, lol), and switched to training pants at 15 months. She was really good about pees, but I had to clean up A LOT of poop accidents. Ugh. anyway, we made the final push to fully trained at 18 months, and she's been fine since! DD was also 20 months when DS was born.

If I had to do it over again, I would've waited until after DS was born to do the final push. Here's why: Although DD was fully potty trained at 18 months, she didn't really have the dexterity to use the bathroom by herself until about 24 months. So for 6 months I had to take her to the bathroom, help her take off her underwear/clothes, wipe her, help her put on her underwear/clothes, help her wash her hands, etc... Also, she couldn't hold it longer than about 2 minutes until she was... 23/24 months. So, when DS was a tiny newborn and needed me the most, I would have to drop everything (including whatever I was doing with him) and help DD as soon as she said the word "potty." I can't tell you how much of those early days I had a screaming (hungry, tired, or grumpy) newborn in one arm and tried to undress/redress a squirming toddler in the other. Lol, it wasn't THAT awful, but in hindsight, I would have waited until DD was 24 months and could do it all by herself. It would have made the transition quite a bit easier, I think!

@Mrs. High Heels: Lol, sorry! It was totally doable, I just think it would have easier if we had waited for a few extra months. Actually, we're hoping to space DS and #3 out so that the next one won't be born until DS is fully autonomous in the bathroom, due to past experiences. Transitioning to 2 kids is tough sometimes, and I think this is one area where we could've made it a little easier on ourselves.

Not until DS turned 3 and he still wasn't ready. Now he is 3 years 10 months and is completely pee trained but still not poo trained. He has been pee trained for 3 months but still has issues going poo on the potty. His pedi says it's common for boys to have issues using the potty for poo and not to push it. So as of now he still poos his undies. We keep it positive and I am hoping soon he will use the potty to poo.

@mrs. wagon: oh my how awesome!!! i can't wait for that day.

It's still a work in progress for us. We started when my son was shy of his 2nd birthday. so 23 months. 2 months later and he's still not fully potty trained.

We've practiced sitting on the potty around 15 or 16 months, no pressure. Weirdly, he would poop but not usually pee. Sometimes he doesn't want to sit there at all.

But my maternity leave starts in two weeks so I am thinking about going whole hog then. My toddler is now 20 months old. I figure it's worth a try although when the new baby comes in October it's possible we'll have some regression.

We haven't pushed any formal training yet but DD is slowly starting to get it on her own. She'll even ask to pee in the potty when we are out of the house now. We're going to do one final push in a few months before baby #2 arrives.