cold turkey potty training - how do I get the confidence up to leave the house?

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DD (2.3) has been pt for one week. We have gone cold turkey so no nappies or pull ups except at night.

Since Friday she seems to be getting the hang of holding it in until she goes on the potty and there have been very few accidents. Once or twice she has said she needs to go but what is more often happening is a little 'dance' and clutching at herself so we can see that she needs to go.

We haven't really been out of the house much, but obviously that is the next step. We're on annual leave next week and would like to get her out and about.

Any tips for doing this or should we just go for it?

I have a travel potty but it isn't one of those ones that goes across adult toilets.

TIA

I refuse to take a travel potty, just too minging a thought.
A little seat to fit over a toilet would be reasonable, not too hard to bring if you are still using a buggy, anyway.

Note each time she needs a wee and ask her if she needs to go an hour later, every 10 minutes after that.

Bring 2 spare pairs of trousers :).
Parks are good, in case of accidents :).

travel potty (potette or mothercare have one that's about 4 quid in the sale atm) and lots and lots of changes of clothes. We also use pampers changing mats on car seat and pram.

go for it.

what's minging about a travel potty? all the wee/ poo goes in the plastic bag, tied up and in the bin. Lot less minging than carrying a toilet seat about that's been in contact with a public loo seat.

I presume you sterilise your entire bottom after sitting on public loo seats.

no, I hover.

Just go for it, but bring lots of changes of clothes. Nothing more boring than being stuck inside doing potty training. I'd rather deal with 5 accidents than sit in all day, but that's just me.

Do you teach your children to hover to? I can't imagine them mastering that until age 5+, but you don't carry a potty that late, right, so what do they do, especially at school?

Where do you dispose of the wee/poop in a bag, too? Don't you need to double-bag to be sure of no leaks? How to carry the potty bags so you can be sure of no rips? AND, don't you need to buy special bags to fit the potty, or do carrier bags manage?

What would you do if you didn't have enough carrier bags in the house?

Do you disinfect your toilet seat at home right after somebody else has used it, just in case they aren't a habitual hoverer?

The mind boggles.

I teach mine to perch on the edge of the toilet seat, me propping them up there. It seems to involve a lot less thinking than the bring-a-potty option :).

ffs in the early stages of potty training I am using a travel potty (potette with bag inserts that have a absorbent pad in them that soak up the piss so no need to double bag). This is for convenience, no desperate searches for public loos, just wop it out anywhere and hey presto, potty time.

I've found the security of having a travel potty has given me the confidence to leave the fucking house whilst potty training a 2.5 yo.

I'm not some insane germ phobic, and ds sat on a public loo today and did not die of germs.

I just fail to see why carrying a travel potty is minging but carrying a little loo seat about isn't. please explain how this is so.

Potette is great to be honest, can stick it under buggy for shopping trips (mine even used it in chnaging rooms once). When they need to go they need to go! It's not fair to expect them to hold it while you find a toilet- at least not in eraly stages of training.

Op, just pluck up the courage and go for it- don't worry about the accidents. My DS, though doing very well in the house, had more accidents while out and about, most likely because he was distracted.

Like another poster said, the park is the best, as it really doesn't matter if they have an accident.

And, don't be dissappointed if there are more accidents- it's quite normal for a while.

Well, for me it would be more minging to deal with bagged up waste or smears on the potty afterwards, then it is to just let the waste go direct into the toilet.

To each their own. :)

there might be smearing on the portable ........... oh I can't be arsed.

as you say, each to their own

off to drink gin now after a hard day cleaning up piss.

Ragged what if your in a park or somewhere not near a toilet and your dd has to go, what do you do! Travel pottys are great, just bag up and put in the big simple! Nothing more messy and awkward than dd crouched down in a bush with wee going everywhere on her clothes and down her legs (dd 3.5 just potty trained).

Oh blimey. I forgot about this thread and now look!

Anyway, thanks for the encouragement everyone. I'll just bite the bullet and get out there with her to the park tomorrow.

hope you have a good day out.
putting ds on the potty every 15-20 mins whilst out is a pita but does work. good luck.

So if they need a wee in a shop, you just get out the potty there and then?

I think the potette is great,, not that i''vre ever actjually used it
as for the "what do you do with the bag?" you do the same as you'd do if you changed a disposable nappy out and about - put it in the bin / in a carrier bag in the bottom of the changing bag

If they can't hold a wee/poo long enough to get to somewhere more appropriate (than the shop or middle of the park) than they aren't ready to be toilet trained, I reckon. Admittedly I would still be using a buggy, which means they don't have to walk trying to hold it in.

In the park/woods, assuming I can't get to any toilets (locked or non-existent, presumably), I hold them with their legs up while they do the business (so it doesn't get on clothes), and then bag any poo up like you would a dog's mess.

...and I would then put the toddler-poo bag in the doo-poo bin the park. Not that it happens that often, anyway.

Do you potty+bag insert people put the poo-in-bag in a designated nappy bins, or do you try to empty the contents into a toilet when you find one? Do you go into the toilets for the toddler to sit there on his potty or do you just whip the potty out to be used anywhere not too public?

I'm much more a clothy which is probably why I am asking sincere questions about the bag disposal.

It's pretty rare that I would put a soiled disp. nappy in an ordinary inside bin, even if I had bagged it up in 6 different ways, I mean, there's signs up and everything about "Please don't" do that, use the outside bin, instead. Plus there used to be a myth (I think it's a myth) about it being illegal to put feces in ordinary bins, so I just never got into the habit.

yes in an outside bin, if you're inside you'd generally use the toilet anyway.
As I said DS has never actually had to use it but I've felt reassured to have it with me at times.

yes in an outside bin, if you're inside you'd generally use the toilet anyway.
As I said DS has never actually had to use it but I've felt reassured to have it with me at times. I have changed many nappies while out & about though & theyve gonr in a nappy bin or an outside bin

do cloth nappies have a disposable insert? what happens to them?

I have let DD1 use a potty with a terry nappy in the bottom, then just bagged up the terry and taken it home to be washed with the other nappies.

Totaly disagree ragged, when they are toilet training they are learning to control their bowel and bladdar, its part of the potty training process, i am sure that you went through it yourself. As they get more confident they bowel and bladder control developes in time, does not mean that they should not be potty trained. They are only little and do not have the same bladdar/bowel control as an older child or adult might. Right keep them in nappies till they are 7 then .

If they are in a shop and they need to go, which is what happened to me last week, I had to just leg it out of the shop, and find the public toilets which they do have in shopping centres and dd whent there. If you are in a high street and the public loos are far, find a discrete place, set up your pottette and away you go simple. No mess and no wet/dirty clothes.