When you started potty training your LO, what approach did you take on the first day that worked? We decided to try OCPT this weekend and LO1 was very upset with the bottomless approach. I think he's just not used to going around bottomless and wanted to be held for most of the day. He also ended up having a high fever later that day and the rest of the weekend so we are going to start over another weekend. Curious to know what worked for others.
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We pretty much followed the Oh Crap method, so bottomless. My kid loves being naked so she had no problem whatsoever with it. Still she comes in from the cold and strips down to a t shirt and undies...
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Bottomless. Now pants without underwear. He still won't wear underwear! And we are about 3 weeks or so into solidly being trained.
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We went straight from diapers to underwear
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Underwear
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Straight from diapers to undies -- no pull-ups, no naked time.
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We went from diapers to the Gerber cloth training pants. They had just enough padding to help absorb pee accidents but he still felt wet so he knew he had an accident. We switched to regular undies after a few months.
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We threw caution to the wind and put on the underwear and then took her to the potty often
Then we moved on to sticker rewards for pees and two mini m&ms for poop.Other than the occasional "I was having too much fun playing and forgot to go" she's done really well
We are moving into nighttime training and I'm scared! Lol
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Diapers straight to underwear.
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One morning he was adamant that he wear underwear (we bought them with the intention of enticing potty training a while ago) so we went with it. We just took him to the potty alot and encouraged him to keep the unders dry. So far so good.
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We also mostly did the Oh Crap method. Bottomless 1-2 days, then shorts without underwear (not sure if this made a difference or not) and eventually undies by day 3/4. She still had accidents after that but she seemed to "get" it by day 2/3.
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We went straight to underwear. There have been a couple accidents but so far so good.
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We noticed on her daycare reports that she was using the potty ( wearing a diaper) and them never changing her diaper. After I noticed this for about a week we decided to just send her in underwear. It was pretty seamless with rare accidents
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Bottomless (OCPT). I would definitely give it some time - I bet it was harder because he was sick.
OCPT also recommends going to loose pants or dresses for girls before undies. So if you think being bottomless is bothering him, I would try some really loose pants that don't make contact with his body at all.
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Bottomless, then commando (no undies, just pants) then undies-- worked great. He was trained in less than a week and no accidents. He night trained himself immediately too.
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Undies without pants at first. Neither of us was into him being bottomless but no pants was helpful. After a few days we did sweatpants with undies.
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We put her in underwear and shirt alone for the first 3 days. She had character underwear so we focused on "keep Minnie Mouse dry!" We'd check intermittently and congratulate her on keeping the underwear dry. Day 4 we started pants too.
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@Mrs. Champagne: Underwear should be duck taped on him! Plus must wear decorative underwear!
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Learn from my mistakes! Skip the pull-ups! My son now loves his pull-ups but treats them just like diapers. When he wears underwear he's fine, but he knows pull-ups are basically diapers. Totally screwed ourselves over with our daycare policy of pull-ups with no accidents for two weeks before underwear.
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We pretty much waited till she was ready, and then went to underwear. I had never thought pull-ups should be part of "potty training"; I just switched the girls to pull-ups from like 2 years and on because it's more convenient than traditional diapers!
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