When starting potty training when did you first leave the house sans pants??

[cupcakes]

I've done this all before but have wiped the trauma from my memory, so help needed!
Have been potty training dd since Monday. She is 2.8.
How soon do you risk leaving the house without a nappy? And what about car journeys! We've had quite a few successes but few of her own initiative.
I don't want to confuse her with switching between pants and nappies but am not sure she can go out without wetting herself. Pull ups are no good - same as nappies to her.
And when she goes back to playgroup should I leave her in knickers?

and that title should really say 'sans NAPPY'!

Day 1! just made sure I took changes with me - they were needed. She was 2.9. Dry during day by day 5. For car seat I would put down a towel or a pampers care mat. She had loads of accidents days 1-3 (was even thinking about going back to nappies). Went to nursery for full day on day 5 and did not need a change (although they did put her back in a nappy for nap time)
Hope this helps.

cupcakes - I started Monday with ds2 (2.11) and have also forgotten from ds1 (except I know he did it really quickly!). How is it going? We have all wees on potty since day 2 but not got a poo on the potty yet.

I'm not putting nappies back on at all now - I know I didn't with ds1 - just take a couple of spare sets of pants, trousers, socks whenever you go out. When ds2 goes back to nursery next week he'll be in pants.

Like your dd, pull-ups are nappies to ds2 so that wouldn't be an option - he'd just wee and poo in those.

I've decided that pull ups are the work of the devil, and sooo wish I'd just gone from nappies to pants with no inbetweeny bit.

I'm with the theory of just taking travel potty and many changes of clothes. Those bed wetting sheet thingies are great for the car and pushchair - sit her on one (cut em in half to save money, and to make it fit better ), and you svae on soggy car seat etc.

I've sent dd to playgroup in knickers today. I did put her back into nappies for days out in the car over half term so maybe didn't make as much progress as we could have!
She seems much better than ds and had actually told us a few times when she needs to go (this took months with ds). I think it helps though being a second child as she wants to copy ds and use the loo.
I will be pretty surprised if I pick her up and she hasn't had an accident. Fingers crossed though!

I did swap her into nappies for car journeys for the first 5 days. She wasn't confused, in the slightest. Car journeys were awkward because she was using the potty at home every 15 minutes in the early days and our average car journey is more than double that so I felt that I had no choice really until she recognised the feeling and knew how to hold it. Potty training took about 2/3 weeks to perfect, I don't think that wearing nappies in the car once a day had any real effect on her.

always have a potty in the car
always have spare knickers/shoes/socks/leggings in nursery bag/handbag
always do a reccy on shopping trips to find the nearest toilet!

It is hell, you need to be organised like military campaign.

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gingerbear - I'm not nearly organised enough. I know I'm going to get caught out. It's normally when I think 'oh, we'll just pop out quickly to the library/post office/school' and I can't be arsed to pack a case.
This would be so much easier to do in the summer when all I'd have to do is keep spare knickers and shorts in bag.

I have a spare pair of DD's knickers in my workbag!
Not organised, they have been there for weeks.
Oh, and small plastic bags to put wet stuff in helps too.

plastic bags! Knew I'd forget something!

I put a plastic bag then a folded up terry nappy on the car seat when we go out in underwear. Take the potty with us and try go potty before we get in the car.