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 love the potette, it's great for DD. it's mostly been used as a loo seat insert thing (though DD will go without, if we just hold her on the normal seat).

she's used it once as a travel potty when out in the woods with her dad, it collapsed when she first sat on it as DH didn't click the legs in thankfully that didn't put her off and she went, DH put the bag in the dog bin thingy :o

DD was only trained when she turned 3 and already had pretty good control (fear of the potty/toilet was her problem) so if we're out she can wait 'til we find a loo, but it's great to have the potette just in case there isn't one near enough.

and I'm quite obsessive about getting her to try for a wee before we leave somewhere!

Btw if there are toilets around dd will perch on them and do her wee/poo but if we are in the middle of nowhere then the pottete comes out somewhere discrete. I would find it agghg to carry around wee/poo covered clothes tbh. Right i should put my 3.5 year old dd back in nappies and undo all the good we have done and she should go back to peeing/pooing in her nappy .

Re disp. liners in cloth nappies: some clothies do it that way. Some use washable liners and bag and wash it all; we tend to remove and flush as much solid waste as possible and only bin the liner if it's pretty awful.

I guess I was lucky, most of mine could hold it for 1-3 minutes (typically 2y2m, so not that old, except DC4, there's always one, isn't there? :)) as soon as they were able at all to communicate to me that they needed to go. So usually enough time to find a proper toilet. I wouldn't want to do toilet training if they couldn't usually hold it for 1-3 minutes, would be too much work.

Well the park where we are is about 10 min walk from home, i always make her go before we set off though. If we are in the middle of nowhere and there are no loos about within a reasonable distance than out comes the pottete. At first dd could not hold on for long, now in time she has developed enough control for me to take her to a nearby toilet. In fact she can hold on for about 3 hours if she wants to like a camel

yes I'm really glad she's only trained now as she can hold it a while. I'm just trying to give her the opportunity to wait, IYSWIM, rather than whipping the potette out straight away every time. i.e. if I/we think she can wait, then we'll use a loo instead, as that'll get her used to waiting for longer periods.

that's the theory anyway!

our park is about 15mins depending on our speed but one possible route is a footpath by a little stream, and is very secluded so she can use the potette there if necessary.

Do you just dangle them over a public loo if you don't have a toilet seat insert thingy?

We've been to the park. It was a success.

woo hoo! well done besom and small besom!

yes, I just hold DD on the loo seat - we take our insert with but she doesn't really mind either way, I let her choose.