Chloe's almost 6 months old, and I recently was describing to someone our EC progress, so I thought I'd post it here.

At this point, Chloe knows to use the potty, and does almost every time she's on it. She sometimes can hold it, but not always, so if I don't respond to her cues (it's one of her fussy sounds) and get her on pretty quickly, or anticipate that it's "that time" and put her on, she'll use the diaper. We catch 95% of her poops, and probably 75% of her pees on a regular basis. When she's sick, or out of sorts, or we travel etc etc, she can backtrack (so can a toddler, though, that's not unusual), but she gets back on track pretty quickly, within a few days. There are also times that she doesn't want to use the potty, and I don't force her, last thing this should be is a battle.

I've noticed that she also senses the changes in the house around the weekend versus the week with her siblings being around more or less, and that Saturdays and Mondays are her "worst" days for EC, and Wed-Fri are her "best" days. Occasionaly we can go entirely without having to change a diaper on those days! Sundays and Tuesdays are "in between" days.

We've just started using the sign for potty when we put her on it, and the sign for all done when she's done. For now, she starts squirming when she's done - so she definitely has her way of telling us. It's not called Elimination Communication for nothing. She definitely communicates with us what she needs, we just have to learn to make sure we're listening.