3.3yr old Potty trained in half term, what now?

[cerealqueen]

...for pre-school? Do we go for pull ups but ask them to take her still, or knickers, again, asking them to take her? No poos yet, just wees (think poos may take some while yet) but happy to go on toilet, no accidents last few days. I think she may hold poo anyway 'til she is home, very rarely did a poo when we were. out even with nappies.
Think pull ups easier all round but am inclined to stick with knickers or am I asking for trouble?

[babybouncer]

Don't know about preschool, but my DS is a little younger and in nursery full time in term time so we were also doing potty training in half term. We've gone for pants rather than pull-ups and asked them to take him to the potty every hour and keep asking him if he wants to go and sent a lot of spare trousers and pants. Today there were two accidents (although one was while he was on the potty and the other was after he'd said he needed a wee and just couldn't get there quick enough) and hopefully they'll be less as time goes on. It felt like he made a lot of progress last week and he's very proud of his big boy pants, so I wouldn't like to take them away from him.

[ilovedjasondonovan]

I'd stick with pants. Honestly, once they have got the grasp of potty training you'd be surprised how quickly they can become 'reliable'. A couple of weeks tops and you'll be sorted.

[cerealqueen]

I think you are both right - I've packed her bags with lots of changes of knickers and trousers and a wet bag and will hope for the best!

[tigerlillyd02]

I've been using training pants to take DS out. He's 2.3 and I was worried about him not telling me in time. However, he had no accidents (only taken him out twice though) so I'm going with pants now. If your little girl is going to nursery, they will likely be encouraging them to go to the toilet anyway and will easily deal with any accidents, so I'd be less worried.

Training pants - although good if you're going on long journeys or something to protect against accidents you can't deal with immediately - probably aren't good day to day as they're too much like nappies in my opinion. Children don't really feel if they're wet with all this 'stay dry' type stuff and so it wouldn't bother them. I find the night time ones hold more than his nappies did!

[littleducks]

I used cloth training pants if I was worried about accidents being inappropriate but otherwise stuck to pants

[Molehillmountain]

Ds is potty training, very far from done yet and did preschool today. Sent in plenty of changes and wipes and they were completely and utterly unphazed by the whole thing. Even when no successful goes today. They're far more used to all this than we are.

[molly3478]

I work in a nursery and dont like it when parents do toilet at home and pull ups at nursery. I would rather potentionally change a child 50 times and do it properly than faff about with pull ups. Its only for the parents sake we will do the pull ups if requested. So I say definitely pants.