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To buy a potty, a toilet seat AND a portable potty?

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1gglePiggle · 10/08/2011 14:20

Do you think it's unnecessary? I like the look of the pourty potty for at home, already have a toilet seat and been reading about how invaluable these portable ones that turn into bags or have liners are.

Want to be fully prepared before I start of 21 month old dd.

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Mishy1234 · 10/08/2011 18:53

We had a potty and one of those toilet seats with the fold down small seat (underneath the full-size one).

I found that the potty was good for early on in training (first day or so) and for longer than that for poos. DS seemed to feel more confident doing a poo with his feet on the ground (on the potty) during the first few weeks and then moved on to the loo pretty quickly after that.

DS2 was really tiny when we were training and for that reason I got a toddle-loo seat for out and about, as I couldn't hold him on the loo if I was holding his brother. I don't have to use it now as he's fine at balancing on a normal seat.

Mishy1234 · 10/08/2011 18:54

Oh, we also have one of those fold flat potties with a liner for the car. It's been very useful a couple of times on long journeys.

youarekidding · 10/08/2011 19:10

I just had a potty and a loo seat.

I would have preferred to go straight to loo as advised to me but DS was a young trainer like your DD. (he was 24 months). I found it easier to have the potty in the lounge as he was reluctant to leave what he was doing and would rather jig about than actually stop it!! I moved the potty further and further away until it was in the toilet when he'd got used to it. I took the normal potty out but would have got a traveling one if I knew about them.

BeattieBow · 10/08/2011 19:12

dogsbestfriend - I was like you for my first 4 children. Just loo, nothing else and no wet pants. It was easy.

Now with dc5, he is very toilet resistent and is insistent on a potty. Still goes on the floor more often than not though.

JsOtherHalf · 10/08/2011 20:08

We used the potette as a toilet seat for DS when we were out and about. It fit any toilet we tried it on. It folded small enough to go into my handbag, and had no hinges on the seat itself to catch his skin.

www.amazon.co.uk/Bibs-Stuff-Potette-Plus-Blue/dp/B001RH85I4/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1313003201&sr=8-4

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1gglePiggle · 12/08/2011 22:13

Thanks for all your replies. Will have to see how it goes I think and buy more if needed at a later date.
Out of interest, has anyone got the potty in a bag? John Lewis sell it, it's a plastic case that is allegedly water tight so you just carry the wee and poo round with you!

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Hannah31 · 12/08/2011 22:22

We had upstairs and downstairs potties. NEVER took a potty out with us - the thought of having to deal with a potty whilst out of the house I find unpleasant. Also agree with Indith and DogsBestFriend; dont understand training on a potty and then again on the toilet!

flootshoot · 12/08/2011 22:33

Yep, I've got all 3. DS uses both the toilet seat and the potty at home. I find the potty useful when I'm feeding DD and can't help him as he can manage that on his own whereas the toilet seat is a bit too tricky (we have quite a high toilet). The portable potty is great as I don't drive, so when we go out we tend to be out for a while and a normal potty won't fit under my buggy.

skybluepearl · 12/08/2011 22:48

Portable potty is great for camping - ones where you bag up the wee. Although i must admit my toddlers do a lot of weeing behind trees with no potty

Less success with the house potty. I own two and they have been hardly used.

Loo seat has been the best option and has had a reasonable amount of use - although my kids half the time just want to sit on a normal adult loo seat without any kiddie additions.

lastonetoleaveturnoutthelights · 15/08/2011 14:02

Just to let you know that on the back of this thread I've been out and bought a Potette portable potty this weekend and am very pleased with it.

Up until now, we've had a normal potty in the boot of the car as we do lots of walking, hiking where there's no loos. When we're not near the potty I can hold dd (2) over grass to wee and poo, but DH struggles to get her in the right position and she invariably gets soaked or worse. But if we have a potty in the boot she'll often use it at the end of a walk or before a journey back home.

But when we've been out and about not had a potty at all (normal one is too big to carry around with us, we don't always use a pushchair), and have several times ended up using friend's Potette as there's been no public loo nearby.

My only question is that the liners are really expensive (£7 for ten), so does anyone know where to buy them cheaper, or how to make-do with something else (ie a supermarket carrier bag?)

Nux · 15/08/2011 14:21

I have all three - we have two loos so we have a fold down seat on one (it's one of those family toilet seat things) and a potty in each. I also got the Potette Plus which is utterly brilliant because it is both a potty and a toilet seat. We use it as a seat upstairs but then take it out with us (plus liners) to use on public loos or as a potty and it has been a lifesaver - most recently when DD decided to take a dump on a train that had no toilet! Fortunately it wasn't too busy

DD likes being able to choose between potty and toilet, and is more in control of the potty as she can get to it herself without being lifted which has helped recently as she has been regressing a bit!

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