Pt ?: panties plus pull-up, or thick training pants?

Re: Pt ?: panties plus pull-up, or thick training pants?

• anna7602 member

  January 2011

  Training pants are absolutely useless, in my experience. If your child is still having accidents, go for the panties under a pull-up method. There's still a bunch of cleaning up to do with training pants. They're thicker, but not that absorbent.

  What's the approach at school? Do they have regular potty breaks? I sent DD to school in pull-ups the first few weeks in September thinking she might not feel as comfy telling a stranger when she needed to go, but the staff at the school were really good about prompting her to go and she's only ever had 1 accident at school in the last 5 months.

  

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• baeluevano member

  January 2011

  personally I think that when you start potty training it is easier to do it all at once. we went from full time diapers to full time chonies. with the exception of night, but after 4 or 5 nights with a diaper she refused to put one on anymore & we haven't really had any trouble with it.

  but it she is in a diaper at school then I don't think it would be too much of an issue. as long as you keep it to a minimum.

  

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• Mrs.Saxy member

  January 2011

  I did the underwear and pull up over it....didn't work.

  Here's when pt'ing finally clicked for DS.  I got together with daycare and told them we pt at home but I'm afraid to send him to school in underwear, but I had to do it.  I sent 3 extra underwear and 4 extra pants.  I said when he runs out of underwear, then use a pull up.  He only had 1 accident that day.  We've been good ever since.

  Whenever I use a pull-up (grocery store, long car trips) we spend the rest of the day having underwear accidents.  Pull-ups puts our DS in total regression. 

  
  
  
  
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• poolgirl7901

  January 2011

  We have the same issue-- DS is potty trained everywhere but school.  I called the pediatrician - she said this is common and as long as they were reinforcing keeping dry (they do a sticker chart and it seems to be working -- yesterday he only wet 1 pull up in 9 hours) - then let him keep control over the situation (but she clarified.. if 3 months from now it is worse or the same, then we can start intervening.)
  

  I asked about the pull up over underwear or the "cool alert" pull up.  She said that if he's trained at all, it's too late for all of that... he knows when he's peed.  She said that if we have an event or something we can't deal with an accident, we should just put him in a pull up and point out the picture at the front (it's a rocket ship... a little phallic for a little boy if you ask me, but whatevs) and keep asking if the rocket ship is still there.  We've actually not done this yet -- so far everywhere we've gone with him in underwear - Costco, the kiddy gym, friends homes... he has been fine.
  

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• lismog

  January 2011

  I got DD one pack of the Gerber training pants (because the store only had one pack). I do have about 20 pairs of underwear too.  So I've been using the training pants, but she's been really good about going on the potty.  Granted she won't tell me when she has to go, but I just keep taking her and she goes.  She's had a few accidents, but I also got the Gerber waterproof vinyl pants, it's a thin vinyl cover to go over her training pants/undies.  The training pants don't contain everything but it does hold a good amount and then the waterproof pants hold the rest in.  When she came home from daycare today (where she had pull up on because I wasn't sure how they felt about her being in underwear, she immediately wanted to put her "big girl undies" on and she did pee in them, but didn't tell me, I don't know if she had just done it when I took her to the bathroom or was like that for a while but her pants were not wet.  Her daycare did say it's ok to bring her in underwear just to bring extra and alot of extra clothes.  I may get one more pack of the training pants for her to wear there.  Good luck.

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• carcirrotti

  January 2011

  we did PU over panties to go out of the house for a week. Worked like a charm, no mess and she still was feeling the wetness, or in some cases, not going until we went on the potty! PTing took DD about 2-3 weeks to completely go pull up or training pants free.

  PS- Gerber makes a think cotton panty, good for when they are really close to getting it and just need a little extra padding to protect the pants or bottoms. HTH!

   

  Mrs. Fitzsimons on 4/21/07.

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