potty training question

kat.in.the.hat · March 2010

how do you handle riding in the car, especially when you were getting started? did you use training pants or just go straight for big kids underwear and put a towel underneath them?

aprilprincess · March 2010

we hung around the house the first few days then always carried a change of clothes. i kept meaning to put the towel down but forgot. and we skipped the training pants.

charlotteL · March 2010

I did pull ups. I also kept a potty in the back of my car. Potty before we left the house; potty when we got where we were going; potty before we left to go back home. There was a lot of peeing in parking lots.

horn_jm@hotmail.com · March 2010

2 words - travel potty!

We have the Potette Plus. There is also the regular Potette and the one by Cool Gear. Definitely nice to have for at the park or when you have just potty trained!

We never did a towel in the car and luckily have not had accidents out. We went straight to undies and Gerber cotton training pants but stayed home those first few days (other than a necessary trip to the mechanic - where I did do pull ups for my sanity).

LisaK2b · March 2010

We started up doing pull-ups when we went somewhere because I wasn't ready to deal with public restrooms at the beginning. But now that she's 99% potty train, this is our first week that we actually have to carry around the travel potty (the one the Jeneric recommended). It's great because you can either use it as a potty seat or have it as a portable potty. it's one thing if she pee'd in her pull ups and didn't tell me, but i can't get lazy and tell her to pee in her pull up's if she's actually telling me that she needs to go potty!

We do what Char does too, pee before we go, pee when we get there, pee before we go home. I'm also thinking about buying a piddle pad (that black pee bad for car seats), but may pass on it if she does well this coming week.

jen5-03 · March 2010

I put a waterproof lap pad in her carseat with a PF on top of it. And then pottied before we left, when we got there, etc. And ditto the peeing in parking lots. We have a pink potty from IKEA in the car. She never wore pullups or waterproof trainers, just the Gerber thick undies.

lilycat · March 2010

We put him in pull-ups in the car with underwear over them. Once at the destination, we would break away the side of the pull-ups and remove them.

Eventually, we stopped doing this. He had only two accidents in the car once we stopped.

For us, potty training was a series of small steps. Once we were comfortable with an accident scenario and how we could handle it, we would move forward. For example, we are still using pull-ups at night and probably will for awhile. We're just not ready for that. Just do what you're comfortable with in the car.

kat.in.the.hat · March 2010

jen5/03:
I put a waterproof lap pad in her carseat with a PF on top of it. And then pottied before we left, when we got there, etc. And ditto the peeing in parking lots. We have a pink potty from IKEA in the car. She never wore pullups or waterproof trainers, just the Gerber thick undies.

This is perfect. I didn't think about putting the lap pad under her, but I have been putting PFs under her.

We don't use a travel potty, we've just been using a ring insert. If they go in the potty when you're in the parking lot, do you empty it out there? Or how do you clean it? Just put it back in the car and hope it doesn't slosh out on the way home?

This is totally going to jinx it, I know, but most days, except naps and night time, she stays dry at least 75% of the time.

charlotteL · March 2010

I always poured it in the nearest grass and wiped it out with a baby wipe.

LisaK2b · March 2010

kat.in.the.hat:

jen5/03:
I put a waterproof lap pad in her carseat with a PF on top of it. And then pottied before we left, when we got there, etc. And ditto the peeing in parking lots. We have a pink potty from IKEA in the car. She never wore pullups or waterproof trainers, just the Gerber thick undies.

This is perfect. I didn't think about putting the lap pad under her, but I have been putting PFs under her.

We don't use a travel potty, we've just been using a ring insert. If they go in the potty when you're in the parking lot, do you empty it out there? Or how do you clean it? Just put it back in the car and hope it doesn't slosh out on the way home?

This is totally going to jinx it, I know, but most days, except naps and night time, she stays dry at least 75% of the time.

the potty seat that we have comes with the liner (basically a plastic bag with an absorbant pad at the bottom) so once finish, you just take the bag and tie it up like a disposible diaper.

ayersfam20 · March 2010

We went straight to panties and also used a travel potty. I just kept a can of Lysol and a roll of paper towels and some plastic bags in the car. If she went I'd dump it out in the grass, spray it with Lysol and wipe it out with a towel. Wrap up the towels in a plastic bag and toss them. We didn't use it all the time. Mostly for road trips. I would just make sure she went before we left, didn't drink anything in the car and kept trips pretty short.

I knew if I did Pull Ups that some places I would get lazy and use them as a diaper so this worked for us. She had to wear them to daycare, but as soon as she got home we took it off. We started to wear them at night too, but she always woke up dry so we did away with that as well. She's never had an accident in bed or in the car.

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