decision time - back to nappies?

[VandT]

I have posted on a couple of other threads but really want some advice about our exact situation. DS started potty training just before he turned two (end of July). He instigated (although we have had pottys around the house for a few months), I think because others at daycare were doing it. Initially he was fantastic, very excited about it and hardly any accidents. Poos harder to crack but we eventually got there too with incentives. however, recently he has lost interest completely and just announces when he has wet his pants/ sometimes does it on purpose on the carpet in front of us and laughs. he started at a new nursery a few weeks ago (completely unphased by the change so don't think regression linked to this change, he is quite a confident little boy) and because of a couple of accidents there, was put into pull ups as per their policy. We are now using pull ups most of the time and basically he has completely stopped telling us when he wants a wee, we only get them from prompting/ sitting him on the potty. I've decided that pull ups are confusing, and would go back to pants and start again with incentives etc, BUT baby no.2 due any day now....
SO, FINALLY, question is, should we just forget potty training for a couple of months and use pull-ups/nappies again? Hate the idea of going back when he has been so good at it initially, but also aware that I will be tired/ frazzled and less tolerant of accidents with a new baby. Has anyone else experienced this? Can anyone reassure me that it is ok to put them back into nappies and then start again in a couple of months?

This is a difficult one. My ds went through a short phase which sounds similar to your ds following a stomach bug. We had to put him back in nappies during the stomach upset and eventually he stopped telling us when he needed a wee and just went in the nappy.

I used cloth training pants by bright bots instead of pull ups. I found these looked like pants, but if he wee'd in them they will contain a wee without it gonig on the floor, but you do have to change them pretty much straight away to avoid wet trousers. He soon worked out that they were not nappies and started using the potty again.

I think he was just being lazy. He's not one for wanting to stop what he's doing to wee so if he had a nappy on he was going to use it.

I'm surprised at the nursery putting him in pull ups though. Most nurseries I know off are more than happy to have children in pants no matter how many accidents.

Maybe try a couple of days in pants and see how he goes and if it doesn't work give yourself a break. When he is ready it will take little effort (or at least that's what happened IME). He is still very young. By the way my ds first potty trained at 2.3, but then had to go back into nappies for 3 weeks, but he was back in pants at 2.4. Poo's however are another issue. He's now 3.4 and we still haven't cracked those.

If he's happy in pull-ups and you're happy with the situation, how could it be wrong? Congrats on No 2.

I wouldn't be very happy with the nurserys policy - doesn't sound very supportive to me. Ds's nursery are very much go with the flow - since he decided to ditch nappies they have only asked once if he could have a pull up (which they provided) on, and that was for their outing which involved 45 minutes on a bus.

however, in your situation, I'd leave him in pullups for a while

Thanks for advice, yes I was a bit annoyed with new nursery policy, especially after his last daycare nursery was so supportive. However, new nursery just 3 short afternoons a week so hopefully we can work around it. Think we will stay in the pull-ups/ half way house situation for a while and then re-launch the pants once i've got the energy/ he's got used to his new brother/sister! Feels sad after he was so excited and into his big boy pants, but good to know others have had similar set backs and got back on track after a while.....