Potty Training @ WDW

[mcgrawfan]

DD (27mo) has been potty training now for a little over a week. She is doing wonderful! I have been VERY pleasantly surprised about everything. My concern is we leave for Disney in 25 days. I am worried about a set back. I have gotten her to go on a public toilet now and also have been able to hold her on ours and she will potty. Is it bad of me to put her in a pull up instead of panties while on vacation. I will still take her to the bathroom. I just really don't want to deal with any accidents while at the parks. Any advice is appreciated. TIA

 

[Starr W.]

We did that with my youngest(who was a bit older than your DD). He didn't have any accidents and he even asked to use the potty. I think he was a little farther along(a couple of months) when we went and it helped having an older sibling, who strangely was very good about taking his brother to the bathroom .


It's been a few years now, but the funniest thing was to get him out of those swim diapers.

 

[FatElvis]

No advice, but I'm in the same situation. My middle daughter is 28 months and right in that really annoying stage of potty training where she wants to go in every public restroom she sees, whether she needs to go or not! We're going to WDW March 2, so I am concerned too. I can totally see her wanting to go in every bathroom, but then 15 minutes later having wet pants, so we'll get double time in bathrooms. Anyway, I am definitely doing pull-ups in the parks. She still is happy to wear a pull-up and then a pair of panties over it, so hopefully that will still work for her by the time we get there. Good luck and have a great trip!

By the way, I drive through Knoxville a lot - my husband is from Carlisle and has lots of family in SE Iowa, so we drive from his parents' house to see relatives a lot and go right through there!

 

[mcgrawfan]

By the way, I drive through Knoxville a lot - my husband is from Carlisle and has lots of family in SE Iowa, so we drive from his parents' house to see relatives a lot and go right through there!

Cool

DD is wearing "big girl underwear" all day and diapers at night. If we go to a restaurant I have put a pull up on her. She has only had 6 or 7 accidents in the week and a half we have been doing this.

 

[jaysbabe]

DS was potty trained over Christmas vacation. But, I was still a little reluctant to feel completely comfortable with all day at Disney because of all the distractions!! We went to WDW for the week of Jan 8th. We kept him in pull-ups for our time at WDW to avoid the hassle of "accidents." I kept checking with him and taking him to the bathroom every hour or so. We were there for 5 days and we only had one accident. I explained to him that the pull-up were still to be treated like big-boy undies however we had them just in case!! He got lots of KUDOS everytime he went!!! We even told some of the characters that he was trained and he was a big boy. They gave him HIGH 5s. It was very cute and he was very proud of himself!!

 

[drivencrazy]

My little girl is in the middle of potty training! She is to funny, she won't wear pull-ups and if I put anything but panties on her, she wets them?!? Sometimes she forgets if she has pants over her panties, so she has been spending lots of time running around in panties and a shirt! She even took a nap yesterday and stayed dry! So I am hoping that by the time we take our trip she will be fully potty trained and she will think that pull ups are a good thing for the trip! She just turned 2 on 12/21 so I maybe by our trip in May she won't need the pull ups... guess we'll just have to see how things are going!

 

[SueM in MN]

If you want them to have the feeling of wetness if they do wet their underwear, but not get all their clothing (or a ride/theater seat or restaurant chair wet), some people put regular underwear on the child first and put the pullup over the top. That way, the child is still wearing regular underwear (which you may have to change if they wet it), but are not going to have a lot of wet clothes or worry about getting anything else wet.

 

[teacher100]

If you decide to not do pull ups definitely bring extra clothes. At disney they are going to be too excited to have to mess with details about going potty. Also, you can't get to the potty as fast as you can at home. My son who was well potty trained had an accident on the tomorrow land transit. We had dinner reservations and there was no where to buy extra clothes. I ended up buying a sweat suit that was much too small and he had to have a pull up which he hadn't wore in quite some time. Once they are on a ride or in line its hard to get back on. I personally would do pull ups and enjoy the trip.

 

[SummersMom]

We are facing a similar situation, my DS just potty-trained. I plan to carry a change of clothes with us in case of an accident. He's doing great so I don't expect one, but I'd rather have an accident (and yucky, wet clothes) than a huge set-back putting him back in diapers/pull-ups.

Just my $0.02

 

[SueM in MN]

One other thing to keep in mind if you are not using anything to keep wetness from getting out is what will happen to whatever the child is sitting on if they do get wet. I have seen parents holding their child on their lap in rides get off with wet spot where the child was sitting.
And, even worse, when we were entering a theater once, someone sat down on a seat to find that the previous occupant of the seat had wet it, so the unsuspecting person got a wet bottom when they sat down.

 

[Whosemom]

Things to not miss when you are done with it

OK, rejoicing on hold. My kids did better on trips, in fact DS was pretty much trained while on a trip, because of the greater amount of control I had... at home they are playing, doing their thing, while I'm busy with my thing, while on a trip its total togetherness I predict you come home with a perfectly potty trained princess. If she's not complaining about the pull-ups, I'd have her wear them. And dresses with nothing under them. easy easy to deal with.

We still have Mom's #1 Rule of Travel: if you get a chance to pee, take it. You never know when the next one's coming

 

[teacher100]

Also be prepared for the toilets that flush automatically. I"ve heard people use post it notes to cover the sensor. My youngest was afraid or the noise it made as soon as he moved and it was a battle to get him to use them after the first time. I would hold my hand over the sensor light, but he still was not too keen on the idea.

 

[mla2177]

I went to WDW last July and had started potty training in mid May. He only had one accident and did very well. I did not use any pull ups or diapers at night as I was always told once you take the diaper off and decide to train, NEVER put it back on with set backs. It just confuses them. I must say, it worked for me, no one could believe how fast my son potty trained, especially the ones who used pullups! I have a friend who started her daughter on the potty at 18 months, and she is now 3 and still get diapers at night and pull ups if in public.