Jill Lekovic - Diaper-Free Before 3: The Healthier Way to Toilet Train and Help Your Child Out of Diapers Sooner

We used Dr. Lekovics method with our two boys (three years and seventeen months) and found it to be an extremely healthy way to raise a healthy, independent, and confident child. Both of our children have enjoyed their potty time and wearing big-boy underwear since nine months of age.

Sarah M.

We listened to everyone who told us to wait to train our first son until he started talking. We had to struggle for months just to get him to sit down on the potty. When Dr. Lekovic recommended that we let our second child sit on the potty at a much younger age, we assumed that she would not want to have anything to do with it. We were completely wrong! We put her on the potty when she was eleven months old and she loved it. It was not long before she went to get her potty book to let us know it was time. Our potty training experience was so much happier, better, and easier, I wish we could do it all over again!

Michael and Lisa C.

I had such a big conflict with my mother, who wanted to put my son on the potty before he even turned one. My pediatrician and all of my friends told me to wait, so I listened. When I met Dr. Lekovic, I learned that my sons refusal to sit on the potty after he turned two could have been avoided by introducing him to the potty at an earlier time. I followed her advice and got him out of Pull-Ups right away. Once we made going potty part of our routine, and I let him feel his own signals, his training was all over in a matter of days.

Katharine M.

When Dr. Lekovic told us to sit our daughter on the potty before her bath in the evening when she was only nine months old, we werent sure what to expect. But we went ahead and got the potty, and she loved to sit on it from day one. I was completely amazed at how often she went, and so happy to know that she wasnt going potty in the bathtub every night! It really did start off an easy and natural toilet training process for us, and all of our friends thought it was amazing when our eighteen-month-old said poo poo and went over to the potty. We did the same routine with our son and had the same great experience.

Brian and Stephanie S.

It seemed like common sense to us that keeping kids in disposable diapers beyond infancy interferes with their ability to be toilet trained. So we were open to Dr. Lekovics methods and introduced both of our daughters to the potty around their first birthdays, and got started using cotton training pants after that. We have had no problems toilet training either of our kids, and certainly never put a two-year-old in disposable diapers. Dr. Lekovic has helped and supported us all along, and we feel so lucky to have had such great advice.

Derrick and Mara H.

We followed Dr. Lekovics advice with our daughter, and our photo album is filled with adorable images of our little baby happily sitting on her potty reading a book. It has been a great experience, with great results, and everyone that we know wishes that their pediatrician had given them all of the information we got about toilet training!

Ivan and Maria N.

We met Dr. Lekovic after our first son was potty trained. We told her that it had been a tough process, that he started using the toilet after he turned two, and it was a daily battle just to get him to cooperate. We followed her advice with our second child, and both the process and the results were completely different. It was honestly a fun, sometimes challenging, but never negative, process.

Francisco and Leah G.

Getting our kids out of diapers earlier gave them so much confidence in so many situations, that we really believe it enhanced their development. Now when I see a parent changing a diaper on a three-year-old child, it just looks strange to me, and I am so grateful that I never did that with my kids.

Mike and Jennifer R.

We have listened to Dr. Lekovics advice about potty training, and it has been such a great experience. No one can believe how well our girls did with the whole process, and we cant imagine doing it any other way.

Peter and Salma M.

Dr. Lekovics plan for potty training fit with everything that we wanted for our children: to develop an awareness of their own strengths and abilities as they emerge. Watching and helping them master toilet training in such a natural way was a great experience for our whole family.

Gena K.

This book is dedicated in loving memory to Dr. Punisa M. Lekovic. I sought his approval and love, and whenever I got it, held it like a treasure.