Potty training and pants

[GingerDoodle]

Dd is just 2 and has decided to toilet train - she uses a loo seat rather than a potty (her choice) and as long as she's pantless (dresses are fine) she's great - 0 accidents! She had been in pull-ups for months as I find them eaiser but she treats them as nappies hence we have been letting her go commando. She still asks for a nappy for a poo.

My / her issue is pants and or trousers - every time we have tried she's had an accident. Does anyobe have any suggestions?

How fantastic her wanting to potty train so young! Great for you too. Advice I was given was to swap nappies for pants so they'd get used to the feeling of wet pants being uncomfortable and then quickly work out they needed to pop on the loo. Maybe the pull ups are too much of a safety net?
Having said that DS1 now 4 is still in pull ups at night and they are never dry in the morning. But DD2 (only 2.5 )is dry at night already.
Would you consider keeping the pull ups just for sleep?

I think pull-ups are nappies to her - she wears them or a traditional nappy of bed anyway. Im in no rush to night / nap train her.

She went through a phase of wanting the pull ups off as soon as they were wet but its fussed at the moment.

Do you think she's too young for rewards? Ie sticker for pants & every wee in the loo and not in her pants? I have to say we thought DS1 was ready- I know you say she's wanting to train herself- but when when we started him he wet 7 pairs of pants on a morning so we gave up trying and had success 3 months later.

She's not shown an interest in rewards for other things.

It wasn't my doing in wanting to train her; I tried with a potty a little while ago and she got upset so concluded she wasn't. My mum came down for 1 day for her birthday and since then she will actively strip off and ask for a pee.

DS is exactly the same! Naked and he's brilliant: not one accident and pees and poos in the potty.
Soon as I put pants on him he pees immediately in them! Argh!

DS was the same to start with - would happily take himself to the potty if he had no bottoms on but as soon as pants and trousers on he would have accidents.
I made him a star chart so he got a star for each wee/poo in the potty and at the end of the week if there were lots of stars he could choose a prize (we bought a lot of toy cars that month).
He soon got the idea, especially as he didn't like the feeling of wet pants.

we had this - just give it time.

eventually we moved to baggy trousers no pants.

then tights and leggings no pants

then pants.

it took a couple of weeks but evey wee in the potty/loo is one less nappy to deal with.

she is now 2.5 and has been dry day and night since Xmas. (and still has no concept of rewards!)

well done op's dd!

Thank you poocatcherchampion! Thats helpful :) DD referred to her pants today as nappies which explains the lack of luck with them... i'll try some baggy trousers in a week or so!!