DH taking 2.8DD to MIL for the weekend. Wants her to wear nappy to travel.

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DD is 2.8 and has been properly PTing for about 2 months. She's doing great!
DH is taking her to his Mum's for the weekend which will involve 45 mins on the train and 45 mins on a bus (normal bus, not coach with a WC) so she'll probably stay in buggy in the pram space.
He wants to put her back in nappies for the journey. I'm not so keen, but I'm not the one doing it.
Advice please.

Get some of those maternity sheets instead (you know the ones that go under you after you've given birth). That way she won't feel regressed but if she falls asleep and has an accident it's just a matter of changing clothes and chucking the pad away.

Might be an idea, or what about pull ups and a potty

It isn't a very long journey though

Just put her in a pull up. No issue at all. As a once off it won't confuse her or set her back. Your DH really doesn't need the headache of an accident in the middle of a long journey. I would have done the same myself for a journey like that at this stage of training

If she can do a wee before the train and before the bus that should be pretty safe I'd have thought. Plus a pad or folded towel and spare clothes just in case of accident. I wouldn't do a nappy, my DD is at a similar stage of PT and would demand a loo or potty even if she had a nappy on...!

I would go pull.up, it's what I did at about the same stage with ds when we had a plane journey. He was fine but dealing with an accident on the plane wouldn't have been much fun!

Compromise.
Pull ups, with the caveat that you tell your daughter they're special travel underwear. He tries to take her if she needs to go, but DH knows that an accident won't cause a mess (the security of the pull up), meanwhile DD doesn't know she's wearing a nappy.
Kids needing the toilet is annoying, but happens. If you do it for convenience now when do you stop? At 4, they still might not hold it for a long trip, but you probably wouldn't put back in nappies. The pull up is there for security in case there isn't time to get her to a toilet, despite effort to do so.

What would you do OP, if you were doing this journey?

Nothing wrong with one if she still has the odd accident.
If she has been accident free for a long time, I would lay off the drinks a good while beforehand and offer the toilet mid way

I put my DS in a pull up at this stage for a plane journey. He didn't regress.

Tbh the journey in itself sound Ike a bloody nightmare

Maybe your dh isn't that confident taking her to the toilet etc.

Do you have a portable potty?

Pull ups for sure. I use them occasionally in situations of uncertainty.

DD says, "no, knickers". I tell her that the nappy is just "insurance" and she stops resisting.

Like others, we used pull ups for long journeys at that stage. We called them "travel pants" and it had no negative impact on the potty training.

I have often put my daughter at 2.10 mths in a nappy as I don't drive so often use the bus. She's great and still asks to go to the toilet. But she has wanted to go to the toilet in the middle of s bus journey so the nappy is a good idea

I’m sure a pull up for the trip will be fine if she agrees to wear it! My DD decided on a Saturday morning that she was a big girl and never wore a nappy in the day again, and a week later refused at night. We flew from the UK to Ireland 4 days after she refused a morning nappy, and I bought pull ups for the trip but she point blank refused to wear anything but knickers. Amazingly she was absolutely fine, no accidents.