For those who did not EC, when do you know your dc is ready for PL?

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My son is the same age, and very interested in his "potty seat" which sits in the bathroom next to the big-people toilet. However, he also tends to poo first thing in the morning (before we get to him, that is -- when we change him upon awakening, there's a nice surprise waiting for us) so it's hard to catch him pre-poop.

~nick

My son is 22 months and got very interested in the potty a month ago. He started staying dry at night, asking to pee on the potty, keeping his diapers dry. We happened to be on vacation when all of this started happening, so as soon as we got back we started doing naked time at the house.

For the first couple of days it was a real learning process for him, but after several days he made it to underwear. He loves his underwear and I keep him in a bummis trainer at night (just to be safe, he stays dry about 80% of the nights).

His biggest issue is pooping on the potty because he too has been very secretive about when he poops. He doesn't like to admit it. With naked time, the first couple of times he pooped and it landed on the floor he was very suprised. After that he seemed to start to understand that he needs to get it in the potty, but he still has a bit of a hard time with it. When he's in his underwear he often has little poop accidents and will then run and finish the job in in the potty.

This is very similar to how it all happened with my first son (he was 24.5 months). He started showing signs asking to pee in the potty when he was wearing a diaper, after a week of naked time at home he was in underwear full time. He didn't have the poop issue that ds2 has though, so it was easier.

I hope that helps! Good luck!

ds has been pooping in his potty since 12 months. Simply because he hates to do so in his diaper - we've "missed" maybe 10 in that time. He's 20 months now. Pees he's not as interested in. He'll use the potty to pee 1-4 a day, and 80% of the time we're home take off his diaper the minute it's wet. When we're out he doesn't care (he waits till we're home to poop if he can though). None of this is anything we initiated, other than buying the potty and helping him understand what it's for. I've been told I should push him a bit to take advantage of the interest, but I'm too lazy for that.