Instead of switching to cloth I potty trained my DD, I used the EC method, and lots of cleaing the floor, she is now 15 months, was doing great last week, but now has an medical thing, so we have about 2 accidents a day. Still way cheaper than diapers, I wouldn't be able to afford them anyway. The end result is more that I am trained to really listen to the word "poo", and she is trained to go at regular times, but I still don't have to buy diapers, havn't since December.
After she was mostly trained then I worked on teaching her not to pee in the underware so she could stop being a naked heathen, we are still working on that part. but she is mostly ok with it. From all of my reading diaper trained kids, do not like to pee without some sort of covering. Making naked a real help to poty training.
Here is a link to a disscussion board about ECing, and the top thread has a billion links to more info about ECing.
http://www.mothering.com/discussions...ysprune=&f=227
Though what I sort of did was also "Naked and $75", 'cept I don't have te 75$
. Naked meaning I left her without anything from the waist down (long shirt of her big bros to keep her warm) and pointed her in the direction of the potty whenever we had troubles, took about a week to get to one or less accident a day, then one more week we were at one every other day or so.
I have heard great things about starting even sooner, I hope to benifit from this the next baby, would save an enourmous amount of money! But I am afraid I wouldn't be very good at it from birth, I am usually to busy trying to fit the new baby into the house to try and see when they are peeing before they pee! (Im lucky if I knw after the fact!)
Also if your interested I trained my DS at about 2 years, I followed the same method with the addition of stickers for a reward, and saved 'big boy toys', the ones that said for ages 3 and up, for big boy days. He was and is very mature and could handle all the ones we had (marbles, small puzzles, big boy straws, etc), but I didn't feel like I was depriving him to restrict those to big boy days. It took him about the same amount of time from the start of the naked thing (one or two weeks). Though we left underware on him to avoid the target practice unless he was in the bathroom! (ok so in the general direction of the potty was after a week, it took several more months to stop cleaning the base of the toilet after most visits
.) This successful method was after almost a year of trying every other method that didn't involve me cleaning the floor.