Do you put stuff down on the floor when potty training? Where are the pottys?

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Random questions but we are about to start potty training using Oh Crap book as guidance. We live in a rental and I'm a bit worried about all the accidents. Do people generally put stuff down on the floor? We have a mix of wood floorboards and rugs.

Also our bathroom is upstairs. Should I buy two pottys, one for upstairs one for down? Or I could buy a loo seat for the bathroom abs a potty for downstairs - or would this confuse him??

You could get rid of the rugs temporarily but the hard floors will be easy to clean. I think more than one potty is a good idea if you can, if only for convenience.

With DD we lived in a tall narrow house with the only loo in the basement, so we had a potty on each floor. Cheap ones from Poundland….. still using the same ones several years later with ds.

now we have a loo on each floor but also a potty on each floor in case someone is using the loo. He is at the stage of saying he needs to go but almost immediately before going!

we also have a travel one which is useful. Same one has lasted for both kids.

Our old house was laminate flooring so really easy to wipe up any messes. Now we have carpet and it’s been destroyed! We bought a rug doctor but you can still see marks unfortunately.

not sure what to suggest. Maybe a couple of bit cheaper rugs until they’re really reliably trained?

We just use toilet seat on toilet. I think potty would be a disaster as Ds would try carrying it or tip it

Interested in this. What about if there is no downstairs bathroom? Does that change this advice?

We have a potty on both floors as he doesn't realise he needs the loo until it's very urgent, so can't wait if someone is already in the bathroom upstairs. I really like the Pourty (nursery use these too so he's used to them) but I'm sure a cheap potty would be fine. Hard floors are easy to clean, and we just took up the rug and put it in the corner for now. Very glad we did!

Toilet seat upstairs and some steps. My Carry Potty is also very useful for out and about (gross but useful).

We had steps and little seats on the loo at this house but in a previous property did use a potty for convenience.

@SuperTryer - no. I figure if he can’t last 1 min to walk upstairs they aren’t ready to potty train. The first week I just took him regularly, now a few weeks on he just tells me he needs to go and we find a toilet.

Out and about he has to hold it long enough to find a toilet, so he can’t be used to a toilet/ potty being only a metre away.

Sorry to jump on this thread but along the same lines, what do you do about the furniture/sofa? Do you use waterproof covers or do I just need to be super-on-the-ball with asking LO to sit on the potty really regularly?? I think LO is ready to start potty training but I would love to avoid any accidents on the sofa if possible!

Mine would be dribbling wee up the stairs if I did that 😕3.5 so definitely ready (started training at just turned 3), just very resistant to actually sitting on the damn potty/toilet. He still has frequent accidents.