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We did undies right away. She pooped in them for almost a month but has since figured it out. She's only in pull ups for bedtime now.

@erinbaderin: me too! He almost always wakes up dry but like once every two weeks he will pee.

@bubblegum: I kept putting my son in diapers when we went out unless conditions were absolutely perfect (he had just peed, pooped already, short outing) and would only bring his travel potty half the time. Then I realized I was holding him back! He would ask me to go potty and since I wasn't used to doing it itside I literally told him twice to go in his diaper. Then I realized what the h is wrong with me! And switched to undies and always try to bring his potty. Using public restrooms required bribes (and sometimes threats... we will go home right now!!!) st first. now he's always in undies except for naps and bedtime !

@bubblegum: not very often at all! Maybe once a week. You just have to prepare for quickly changing clothes and for me, if it's poop, I would throw away the undies if I were out and about! Luckily poop accident only has happened once.

Having a few accidents is totally fine. It's really on you to prompt until they are consistently asking to go, especially in a new and distracting place. My DS treated pullups as a diaper, they really aren't any different. I would never have been able to potty train him if I had him in pull ups and expected him not to pee in them. We do use them for overnight and sometimes for nap. But often he refuses the nap time one and stats dry.

@bubblegum: oh I was going to say too!! My son also goes short days to school and I still send him in his diapers cause no one tells me definitively if he pees on the potty there. Especially this summer, it's at a different site with a ton of different teachers, and it seems a little hectic for him. I plan to definitely send him to school in undies when he starts going two full days at the regular campus at the end of the month!

@bubblegum: I think this is so kiddo dependent. We are potty training right now thanks to an amazing teacher at our daycare, she pushed it when it needed pushing. We've been in underwear for 5 days now. And she's had 2 pee accidents. Poop is a different ballgame for her. I'm not sure how we will cross that bridge yet. For reference she's 2 y 9 m.

Our older started training much earlier and seemed to take longer. We are very much a follow their lead family and don't do anything that has much structure.

@mrsbubbletea: I remember being a bit militant with our older about getting rid of her night diaper ( I was also very pregnant with #2 and really didn't want a relapse). I really limited her amount of fluids at dinner, no drinks after dinner and must use the potty before bed. I also made her use the potty as soon as she woke. No more laying in bed playing. If I heard her making noise, she got out of bed.

As luck had it, she hit her 7 nights exactly one week before my scheduled c-section with #2. I was sooo nervous about a relapse. I think she had 1 or 2 accidents after that. I distinctly recall going in her room one morning and smelling urine. She has a full bed, so she just moved out of the wet spot *face palm* and slept in her wet undies.

She had been day trained for probably 6 months before we reached this point. She had many runs up to 5 consecutive nights and wet on night 6.

My first was about 29mo when we potty trained her. We just did 2 days naked at home (like the 3 day method but 2 days) and sent her to daycare in underwear the next day. It is what daycare suggested even though I've seen some kids do pullups. We did underwear. She had occasional nap accidents and still does but that is basically it. We do pullups at night still (and it will be 1 year in September) and she wakes up dry most of the time now. But I'm in no rush, they don't confuse her to wear them at night.

One we decided to train, DS went commando or undies starting day 1. For awhile he held his poop until nap or nighttime (pull up), but eventually he he stopped relying on pull ups altogether.