Urgent question about Easyup pants etc

[Thankyouandgoodnight]

I have 2 questions!!

1. Are Easy up pants the things that I'm after and 2. does now sound the right time...!

DD is 2.3 and I have on a few occasions found her with her trousers down having taken her nappy off trying to get on to the toilet to do a wee. She also trots off somewhere 'private' (ie behind a chair or in to a bush) to do a poo. She tells me when she needs a nappy change (having just done a poo and sometimes when she's just done a wee (nappy feels warm) and occasionally she will tell me she wants to sit on the potty.

I was wondering whether having some pmapers easy ups would be the right thing as I'm assuming I should encourage her to wee on the potty if she wants to etc and it would make it easier logistically if her nappy could whizz up and down at will. what are your thoughts?

I am ssuming that she's not actually ready to potty train as she doesn't always tell me what's going on afterwards, let alone before but I do want to encourage her on the occasions that she shows willing...

Imo it sounds as if she is ready or almost ready for potty training. It is either easy up nappies/pants (or pull ups) that you are referring to I think.

Some people have strong ideas against using them, thinking that it should be either nappies or pull ups, not a mixture as some dcs get confused.

More confusingly, some people use "easy ups" just as an alternative to a "normal" nappy, e.g. if the child is quite wriggly/uncooperative as they are easy to put on and off during changes.

I would suggest having a little look through the archives - loads of good advice re potty training in there.

I started with DS1 6 weeks ago and just went botton half naked and he learnt (motivated by chocolate buttons) within 3 days. He wasn't pulling his own pants down or telling me even after!
I had used the Gina Ford book and sat him on the potty before his bath each day etc for a couple of weeks first

easy up pants are ordinary nappies that you pull up and down - they are not potty training nappies. Pampers feel and learn are potty training nappies and are designed to hold an accident rather than a few hours worth of pee.

With ds I started slowly and took him to the toilet regularly while using easy up pants (as nappies). Once he was reliable at telling me when he needed to poo/pee then I put him into pants. He was in pants by the time he turned 2.

Thanks Seona - that's interesting you say you did it that way as that's my instinct with DD - I still want her in nappies rather than training pants but want her in something that goes up and down easily, rather than 'normal' nappies which become all twisted and tabs pull off and then you have the faff of getting the damn thing back on properly. How long did it take you and how often were you putting him on the toilet/potty etc and was he always willing to sit on it?

Hi, I used pull ups (nature baby ones) from about 19 months with DD2 and started putting her on the potty regularly (not many hits, but the odd one), using pull ups made it much easier to incorporate regular trips to the loo although I do consider pull ups to be nappies (as does DD, she still wears one at night and calls it a nappy and will use it, she's well aware of when it's on and when she is in pants). After a couple of months when she was used to the potty / loo being a regular part of her day I chose a quiet week to go cold turkey with no nappies (or pull ups) and potty train her properly and she picked it up v quickly and was out of day time nappies completely by 23 months.

Sounds to me like your DD is completely ready to be potty trained (they don't need to be telling you everything - just to show an understanding of what is going on then you know that they will be able to build on that with your encouragement). I would think if you had her in pull ups for a week or two to get her used to regular visits to the loo (without any particular expectations of success, but lots of encouragement if you do get a 'hit'), then after a couple of weeks you could bite the bullet and try going nappy free