To pull up or not to pull up???

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About to potty train! Pull ups or straight to pants??

Definately real pants. Pull up's feel dry so they don't notice - just like nappies really - real pants get wet, they notice immediatel - soon get the message.

Oh and don't switch about nappy/pamts/nappy excepet for bed or long naps. Way too confusing. Pampers disp. changing mats fab for buggies, car seats etc.

Good luck - and have about 15 pairs of pants ready for 1st few days.

One more thing I realised - if child realises they're weeing they probably stop so don't do full wee - make sure they go to toilet/potty after accident. If at nursery have a chat so you're all singing off same hymn sheet.

Charts are good - too monitor progress and reassure things are improving - took my son about a week really.

All the best

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Many thanks!

If you're planning to reward your DC with a sweet for every deposit in potty then you can introduce the idea of potty training while wearing the pull ups. I think its a good low stress way of starting off. But ultimately I personally don't see how you can be sure they are getting it if there not in pants. So I'd plan to move on to pants after 3-4 days.

Real pants! I am in the same position trying to potty train my 3.2 year old, and have training pants which are fab as they are more absorbant. Shame dd does not notice when she is wet despite being in them for 15 mins (me trying to get the message to her that wet pants dont feel nice)

It really depends on the age and what exactly you mean my potty training. With DD1 I started potty training her at 2.3, straight to pants, very successful, dry within 3 days clean within a week. DD2 I started much earlier - 20 months ish. We did a couple of months in pull ups with regular potty trips then full on pants training at around 22 months which was quick and easy. I found using pull ups a very gentle way to ease her into the idea of potty training and then get her out of nappies fairly early. Pull ups are a nappy - treat them as such. They can be a very useful warm up tool for potty training but once you actually go for potty training proper then it has to be just pants.

DS is 2:6......but he never tells me he has done a poo or lies if I ask which worries me! His new brother is also only 10 weeks so maybe I am pushing my luck?

What Mspontipine said. 100% agree.

But I think you might better leave it for the time being, given that he's not soudning terribly interested plus having a new little brother.

Are little boys ever interested though?!!! I thought chocolate buttons might make it interesting!

Ahhh, bribery often helps! But they really do need to be physically ready. I tried training ds1 at 21m, he did his best but wasn't physically ready even though he understood what we were doing and really tried to oblige. He was getting upset at having accidents, so after about 3 days we stopped. Tried again at 2y10m (ie the following summer, when his little sister was about 6m) and it took two days. Literally two days. Similarly with ds2: tried when he wasn't ready, didn't work. Tried again when he was ready, took under a week. Took longer to wean him off getting a jelly bean each time he used the loo! Much longer - he still asks from time to time, with a cheeky twinkle in his eye, and he trained over a year ago!

Sorry, meant to point out that physical readiness doesn't always come at the same time as interestedness (eg my ds1), but it just doesn't work unless you've got both factors at the same time.

ds1 was interested at 19 months and I had a 6 wk old,he was trained in 2 weeks, if he is interested then go for it in real pants - wee running down his legs really helped him put two and two together and he didn't like it, pull ups are just nappies and its easy not to be bothered.

If he's not fussed then I'd leave it, I would never recommend training with a baby I only did it because ds made nappy changes so unbearable, smeared poo in protest (lovely stuff!) and I had the advantage of only changing one set of nappies, we persisted because he wanted to do it.

Do you have any potty time now? could start with that especially if he's not telling you about poo, ds1 was clean then dry, ds2 was dry then clean and the main issue was he never sat for long enough to have poo, we had to spend time getting him to sit for 5 mins and wait if that makes sense.

He really insn't interested......shall I leave it?? He is 2:6 now....

personally, I'd leave full on potty training (as in pants or pull ups) and go for sheduled potty time like before bath, after lunch... get him used to idea and hopefully catch a few and start talking about wearing big boy pants, if you put idea in his head you might find when he is ready it just clicks

Straight into pants is in my opinion is the best way to go. I used to work in a nursery and have worked with children for 8 and a half years. The children that went straight into pants where a lot more successful than those who used pull ups. It just confuses them as they are just like nappies.