What do I do now????

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Well over the last 2 days dd has had some success with the potty.

All the no1's are going in but just in little bits (she keeps stopping midflow) , no2's are a bit tricky and she doesn't really like doing them on it but I have heard thats quite common for toddlers to react like that.

All this is done with lots of prompting and rewards.

So what do I do now?
What happens when I need to go out?
Will she tell me when she needs to go?

I have pants on the ready but just not 100% sure I should be using them yet!

How old is she ? It is very unliely she'll tell you yet if she needs ot go , more likely it will be too late t get to a toilet in time. If you ar ehavign to keep prompting/rewarding are you sure she is really ready ? If you don't want to confuse ehr , try pants at home first and see how she gets on. To go out you could put a pull up/ cloth training pants over them but I rather think she needs more time to get used to pants on their own at home to really get the message.

Does she tell you when she needs to go at home, or is she just wandering off to a potty? If its the wandering off, then it might do good to move the potty so that she has to ask for it - then you'll get some idea of the success rate if you go out

I just went for it - I bought those disposable bed mat things and cut them up to pushchair/carseat size so that if we did have an accident, it was just change trousers rather than deciding what to sit her on in the car/round shops. Oooh, and remember - change of trousers, but also change of socks and possibly shoes (I would just go for blanket and no spare shoes if she is staying in pushchair) - tis amazing how far wee can travel

I would say have a whole few days at home in pants too - DD was a star with a bare bum, but cover it up, and it took about 3 days for her to get the hang of it again.

She's 2.1.

She did use it all on her own the other day with no prompting and right now she's sat on it without me asking.

We did go out yesterday only to MIL's for dinner but I decided to put some pants on her just before we set off and she peed herself.

Good idea with the mats FS.

take the potty with you if you are going to someone elses house (it will only be for a few weeks probably).

You can also get a portable potty - Tommy Tippee - which folds flats and comes with plastic bags with a nappy lining to soak up the wee. Invaluable when out in the car and no loo in sight, but maybe she's a bit young if she can't tell you she needs a wee - maybe something for the future ?

She tells me when she's had a wee and always said poo when she filled her nappy so it's not that she can't say it, I'm just not sure what she'll do when we're out.

I'm going to get a portable potty. She's going to MIL's tonight and staying till tomorrow night so MIL will carry on the training. Maybe she will work some magic (her's were trained at 18 months you know )

When I first ventured out with dd, just before her 2nd birthday, I would take her to the loo regardless of whether she asked or not every hour or so. I also used to remind her when we were out that she would need to tell me if she needed to go. I took the potty everywhere in case there wasn't a toilet and always a change of clothes. Flamesparrow's right about the shoes and socks too!

Well she's just gone to the potty and done a wee on her own without being prompted

Hurray! (I never knew I could get so excited about No 1's and No 2's before potty training).

Me too, lol!

There was 6 of us at MIL's yesterday, all rejoicing over dd having a no.2 on the potty

I scared poor DD with my celebrating yesterday!!! She is scared of pooing in the potty (has been dry for months, but wears a nappy to poo), and she did it for the first time in ages yesterday... think my bouncing has put her off for life!!!

lol!

DD was like that yesterday and kept saying "oh no oh no" but then when we all started jumping about she quickly changed her mind and started clapping.

I think the chocolate buttons had something to do with it too.

DD's went all wrong when she got a bug... she obviously didn't like the feeling of it going away from her so quickly, and got scared. Then she wouldn't go near the potty for a poo - even preferring to stand up and just poo on the floor than sitting on it

I thought that was what she was going to do yesterday, but after me telling her to come to the potty, she actually did!!! Lots of hand holding and sobbing from her, but she managed it... hoping it is the start of things to come (would love her to be "fixed" before the baby comes )

What I always did when I first went out with a potty training child is take a change of clothes and expect an accident. Make them do a wee before you go out and suggest it at every opportunity, eg whenever passing a public loo. Never go anywhere where you don't know where the nearest loo is. Get good at asking people in little shops if you can use their private facility! Also, second the use of mats under bottoms when in pushchair or car seat to minimise cleaning up if an accident should occur.

But main rule is: don't go out for longer than you can realistically expect the child to go between toilet stops (to begin with anyway). This period of being confined to the house or public toilets and of carrying a change of clothes doesn't last for long usually (and fortunately!)

DD was so used to being made a huge fuss of when she did a poo, that when she did one during her 2 year check, she brought the potty in to show the health visitor!