Potty training and dog walks.

[yetanothernane]

Going to attempt potty training starting this weekend. The childminder is off and it seems the best time to try. Ds is 2, but seems to know when he needs a wee.
However, I have to take ds with me when I walk the dog. How is the best way to approach this. I normally stick ds in his pushchair, and obviously don't want him to wee on his pushchair. Is there something really obvious I'm not thinking of?
Not taking the dog out isn't an option. Dp is at work.

Put a maternity pad or puppy pad on the pushchair. Take a potty with you.

For the first daycan the dog just use the garden?

We were successful with potting training in 'sessions', rather than cold turkey. So started with an hour or two on the first day. Took trousers off and just had DS in pants to make the sensation easier for him to feel. Put a potty in the room with us and just asked him every so often if he wanted to go or just put him on. By only doing short bursts it wasn't too stressful for me or him. This way in the early days when accidents are likely, I'd put a nappy back on for going out etc and just say 'we'll do another session later.' Once he was staying dry in the house, we ventured out for walks etc with no nappy. Did this for a few days and extended the length of sessions and within two weeks he was trained, with a handful of accidents. Good luck!

Littletipple I like that idea! I might go with it!0

Just took the plunge and went for It! Potty under pram and told him to tell me if he needed to go. Have to walk my dog 3 times a day with son on my own. There were a handful of times he had to use the potty in middle of woods and now the occasional time he will wee in a bush but very rare now.

I used a portapotty but any potty would do.

@LittleTipple how old was you DC when you started this?
It sounds a great method as I just think potty training sounds like a minefield lol
People are telling me to start putting him on the potty now as he always has a 6 o clock poo, so start putting him on around that time , but I think he's too young and don't want a negative association with it ( if that can even happen at 13 months )

@Tigger001 My DS was just over 2.5 years. I've never understood the rush- changing nappies doesn't bother me, but people get so competitive about when their DC's were trained! The health professionals I spoke to said 2.5 was generally about when boys could be ready, girls a bit earlier. Obviously some will be ready earlier, some a lot later. I think the absolute key to success is the child must be ready, understanding the sensation of needing to go, able to communicate that to you. For a couple of months we introduced the potty by putting it by the bath. Every night before bath we'd casually say 'do you want to sit on the potty' and sometimes he did, sometimes not. No wees, just sitting. We also bought a couple of books about using the potty. Eventually their curiosity wins out and we got a couple of wees, then nothing for a few weeks. We knew he wasn't ready yet. Once he was taking himself off in private to poo in his nappy and started telling us he'd done a wee, we knew he was understanding and took him to buy pants. Then waited until he wanted to wear them and started the sessions. By following his lead, training took 2 weeks and we never took a potty out with us. It wasn't anywhere near as stressful as I'd expected!