Hello Cass! Good luck with your journey, and thanks for bringing it up, I'd love to share.

I don't know if you'd call it toilet training, but we've introduced the potty into the bedtime routine the last few weeks. It's working fantastically at the moment - we give DS a shower or bath, then before we dress him we ask him if he can sit on the potty and do a poo or wee, turn on the nightgarden and give him a bottle of milk. He always tended to poo in his nappy around this time anyway, but since we've had him going on the potty they are MASSIVE poos. If I had to change a nappy with poo that big in it I think I would faint. He likes the idea of weeing in the potty but he mustn't be able to sense when one is coming yet, because he'll sit on the potty readily and stand up after a short while and point and say "wee!", but there's nothing there. And when I let him go nappy free with the potty nearby he always ends up weeing on the floor.

I'm sure I need to take your approach of potty straight after waking up. Only trouble is I usually try to delay the inevitable when he wakes up at 5am in the morning by bringing him into bed with us.