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Recommend toilet trainer seat?

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Tinkywinks · 13/03/2008 23:15

I went online to look for a toilet trainer seat to use at home for my son and completely baffled at all the variations. Padded, removeable, handles, plastic....what have you found to be the best type?

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madamez · 13/03/2008 23:17

The padded ones that slot into the hole in the seat (Mothercare do them for about 12.99). Also (learn from this idiot mother) if you get one of those hard plastic ones that is basically like a sombrero with a hole in, the way to use it is to stick it under the toilet seat not on top

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Tinkywinks · 14/03/2008 00:00

Thank you, and what a nice visual to end the night! Hope you didn't get too wet...

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spamm · 14/03/2008 00:21

The basic plastic ones on mothercare are fine - they just help ensure that the los don't fall in. We have two of these, one for upstairs and one for downstairs, as there is not always enough time to run up...

like this one. And they are quite easy to keep clean as well.

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spamm · 14/03/2008 00:23

madamez - lol. I can just imagine the wonderful picture of dc's face when that happened...

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Tinkywinks · 14/03/2008 00:27

Thanks spamm, I guess you can't get more basic than that!

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madamez · 14/03/2008 00:29

Hehe - thing was, it happened while DS dad was looking after him.

alysonpeaches · 14/03/2008 14:05

Spamms one looks quite good as it is the same shape as a potty and has a urine guard. Might have to get one. Is this one of the sombrero type that you put under the seat?

ca7439 · 14/03/2008 14:11

tinky, I got one of the padded ones from wilkinsons for a couple of quid
will look for link
my dd wouldn't sit on the hard plastic ones!

ca7439 · 14/03/2008 14:12

here
is the one i got!

mckenzie · 14/03/2008 14:25

just on the off chance that you are my neck of the woods, I have two padded Baby Bjorn toilet seats that i was about to put on Ebay. My DD wouldn't seat on the cheaper plastric ones (although my DS would

spamm · 14/03/2008 15:30

Alysonpeaches - yes, it goes under your toilet seat, which fits neatly over it and holds it in place. Ds very quickly got the hang of it and does it "all by myself" very proudly.

He can still overshoot, but the guard is very good. I think that is just a boy thing - I do not have a girl and all my friends' / family's dcs are boys as well, so little experience, except myself - my aim is better that dh's .

nappyaddict · 14/03/2008 15:59

we've got this one

nappyaddict · 14/03/2008 16:00

we had the wilkinsons one originally but it was too small for our toilet seat?

nappyaddict · 14/03/2008 16:04

does this one have one of those guard things?

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Tinkywinks · 15/03/2008 00:26

thanks everyone. Funny thing is, I realised today that the potty my son is using and it does actually convert into a toilet trainer seat!! But not sure if I still need to get one as I might have to give him the option of using both at first. That's kind of you mckenzie, where is your neck of the woods? I will definitley need a guard. When is it that boys start peeing standing up? And also, does anyone else wipe their boys willy after they've had a pee or am I just thinking too much like a girl??

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Roca · 15/03/2008 00:34

don't bother - mine just went straight onto main toilet seat - never seemed a problem - does no one else think these are just a bit of a gimic and a huge pain in the arse to take on and off?????

If they learn on this then what do they do when they don't have the seat elsewhere?

Have found the aim is hard on the little seat?

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Tinkywinks · 15/03/2008 00:48

Never thought of that, I thought they found it hard to sit on the seats without falling in.

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spamm · 15/03/2008 00:53

Roca - I agree, when it comes to wees. But I do find that my ds likes the toilet trainer seat when it comes to poos as he spends more time on it .

My cousin's ds is fine without any special seat, by my ds does not really like it, he slips in a bit.

When out, he copes fine without - we do not take it with us - but at home, he likes it.

Roca · 15/03/2008 01:45

My DD has 'fallen' in once and was hilarious - these two little arms and feet poking out the loo! Didn't put her off though - they always take the little seat OFF if we go to someones house who has one.

Can defo see may be more useful for poos.

My two (DS 3yrs DD2yrs) just hop on at home as they can use the bath next to it as support.I have to help dd on other places and hold her but DS is MR balance so is fine.

Gimic gimic gimic overall I say!

Roca · 15/03/2008 01:47

DH just told me I was being a little unfair as our DC are a bit nimble - oopsy!

mckenzie · 15/03/2008 08:47

I'm North London Tinkywinks, M25 J 24 or 25.

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Tinkywinks · 15/03/2008 22:08

Thanks mckenzie, althou I'm north london too, have decided to use the potty convert seat. If I'd realised it before I probably wouldn't have even started this thread! x

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