Day 1 - Naked or knickers? Opinions please!

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For the past two weeks we have followed Gina Ford’s ‘practising pre’ potty training stage and are now ready to tackle the potty properly this weekend. I’ve read the Oh Crap! Book and generally like this method so I think we will go with it.

However the one area I’m unsure of is whether to start off naked or in knickers. Ford basically says not to have them naked as it’s not really the end goal, Oh Crap! Is naked to commando to pants (which seems very drawn out to me but hey if it works then I’m on board).

So I guess I’m really just looking for opinions and experiences. Do we introduce knickers from the get go Saturday morning or go naked til she has grasped going? TIA x

Just doing Oh crap method with my DS 2.4 yrs, started 3 weeks ago. he was naked on bottom half for one day & got it. Just moved into pants 3 days ago ( but probably could have sooner). I‘d recommended makes as you’ll be able to spot the wee signs more easily & also there’s no delay of getting onto the potty eg pulling down pants which your DD may not be used
to doing either. Good luck!

Yes I agree with Prosecco. The no pants for a day or 2 worked well for my little boy. He had just turned 2 when we started and it helped him recognise when he was actually weeing and make it to the potty on time. Also it’s quite a big thing if they wet themselves and could knock their confidence on the first couple of days. It’s all about praise and feeling good about using the potty in the beginning so that they actually want to get it right. We introduced pants at day 3 and has looked back. He’s hardly had any wee accidents.
Pooing has taken a lot longer though.

We didn't follow any method but did naked on day 1, pants only day 2, fully clothed from day 3 (as was back at nursery).

We followed oh crap method, naked to commando and starting with pants too this past couple of days, taken us 4 weeks to get to the point where DS is now telling us and is able to push his bottoms down.

Definitely bare bum, unless you've really stocked up on pants!