My ds is 2. He's been in cloth nappies since he was 3 months and from 9 months he began to refuse to poo in his nappies, so I bought a potty and he'd poo on that at nappy changes. As the months went on we got into a rythym of offering him the potty at every nappy change, and I'd invariably be changing a clean dry nappy, and he'd wee and poo in the potty. By about 16 months he could tell me by sign language that he needed the toilet, wanted to use the toilet and would do the majority of poos and wees in the toilet. Ofcourse he couldn't take his own trousers off, and couldn't walk yet so didn't reliably take himself to the toilet, so it wasn't all him. I did consistently offer the toilet at the same times and notice if he was telling me he needed. But still by 18 months we were only washing a couple of damp nappies a day.
But then at 20 months he walked, and suddenly was not interested in the toilet atall. Suddenly I'm washing 8 sopping pooing nappies a day! I'm still offering the toilet regularly, but usually he's refusing and using his nappies. So I try to chill out and continue to be led by him.
The last few weeks he's got into it again. Can now say poo, potty, wee. Like to sit down on the potty himself. Yesterday he came and told me potty, then ran off to the bathroom, sat down on his potty, had a poo and then tipped it in the toilet and flushed! He's still wearing nappies, altho I usually leave him bare bummed at home. I'm maybe washing 2 or 3 dampnappies day again now, but he's not consistent . We have maybe one rogue wee that soak all his clothes every couple of days, maybe a poo ey nappy a week.
So what to do? Get rid of the nappies? Training pants? Or continue to let him do his own thing until he can take his own trousers down? Leave him bare bottomed all summer?