Travelling with newly potty trained toddler

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Dd has been potty training for the past few weeks and has picked it up quite quickly. She hasn’t had an accident at home or nursery for ages but is more cautious about using the potty or toilet when we are out and about. Sometimes she won’t go at all until we get home, other time she says she needs to go but can’t actually manage to do it, occasionally she’ll have an accident.

We go abroad next week and I’m worried about the travel element. I’m loathe to put a pull up on her when she’s been doing so well but I also don’t want to deal with an accident on a plane or in one of the many queues we’ll have to wait in. Wwyd in this situation?

Pull ups deffo

I’d consider pants on the inside and pull-ups on the outside for the plane. That way:

• anything you may need to ‘deal with’ is confined to the interior pants, which can always be binned if absolutely necessary, no trouser change required
• it helps convey to her the sense that it’s not that you don’t trust her not to have an accident, it’s just support in case of an emergency
• she has the sensory cue of some fabric there, which should help prevent any regression

Pull ups definitely, with knickers inside if you want her to have the sensation of being wet still. We recently flew to Turkey and the seat belt sign was on for most of the flight - I was close to an accident at points!!

My DD has been trained a while, we still use pull ups for long journeys! It’s not like you’re putting her back in a nappy, use the pull up as you would a pair of pants and encourage her to use the toilet. It’s really just a back up in case she has an accident, not like a nappy where she’d be encouraged to do the toilet in it.

Would agree with pp. We went away when my son was newly potty trained and used a pull-up for the journey. We just told him it was special “plane rules” and I’m glad we did as he totally freaked out at the plane toilet (size and noise) and so we were covered in case he couldn’t hold it. But he did hold it the whole way so didn’t cause any regressions

We use pull ups as “plane pants” but normal underwear on under the pull up so DC still has the sensory feeling of normal pants and doesn’t feel like wearing a nappy

Yep, plane pants, car pants, boat pants. Just sensible and she won’t regress.

We renamed them “adventure pants” and still did lots of toilet visits but it reduced worry about unexpected delays etc. also if you can get a completely different brand so it doesn’t feel like a regression to the ones she used to pee in before.

A pull up is a nappy. If she hasn’t had an accident for ages I wouldn’t worry about the plane. It’ll only be during take off and landing that you can’t use them. Maybe take some just in case but don’t put them on as a matter of routine.

It’s just that she isn’t confident using public toilets or even her travel potty in unfamiliar places. At home she’s fine.

We’ve just been abroad with my daughter who I potty trained two weeks before we left (not the best timing) but to be fair she was fantastic.
i told her she needed to wear a plane nappy and also a pool nappy when she swam. She still asked to go the toilet when wearing pull ups and didn’t end up weeing in one at all.

Yes we also have sleeping pants, car pants, aeroplane pants. We don’t use the word nappy although it’s a pull up and we say it’s in case you fall asleep or we can’t stop. He still asks to go to the toilet and gets upset if has to wait. It makes us feel a bit better just in case.

Does she still wear them at night?

If so, just use whatever she wears at night for the journey and tell her that they are “just in case pants” or whatever you want to
call them.

Similar to everyone else. We put plane pants on and half way down the runway she was screaming that she needed a wee! I told her she was allowed to go in her plane pants which she did and as soon as we arrived they were off and she didnt have another accident for the rest of the holiday! She is happy going anywhere though either in public toilets or in her portable potty!

Yes pull ups for traveling. There will be long periods of time where she won’t be able to go to the toilet, especially if there’s turbulence, so it’ll be less stressful all round.

We use pull ups where we can’t afford an accident and it works well. There are day time pull ups that look and feel different to nappies. It didn’t give my son the “comfort” that he can pee his pants, he still told me every single time. We put underwear on top so if he looks down that’s what he sees.

My DD had a pull up for the plane and she was 12 months potty trained. We were up at an ungodly time with a very long car journey and she absolutely wouldn’t set foot in the plane toilets, we were also delayed for 2hrs. The pull ups were needed and she understood it was just for the travel.

She didn’t have an accident on the plane but did on the motorway when asleep so it saved the car seat.

We also used them another time when she was very ill and it didn’t cause any regression.

Bambino Mio do the reusable training pants, they are brilliant! Also puppy pads on car sests/plane seats etc

www.amazon.co.uk/Bambino-Mio-Reusable-Training-Toddler/dp/B0FD9VNRWG

Yes! If she was in disposables before training, reusables could be the answer as they won’t feel familiar to her or feel like going backwards.

I would get reusable training pants. I wouldn’t do pull ups.

We’ve got training pants which are ok for close to home, more absorbent than regular pants but still wouldn’t contain a full accident.

I think we will have to go with pull ups and just hope she understands that it’s a one off and not a backwards step.