Road Trip w/potty trained 3YO

[oneprincessjo]

Hello! We will be making our drive down to Disney in January. My 3 year old daughter is potty trained. Can you recommend a travel potty seat??? I'm not looking for a travel potty, that won't help in the parks. I had ordered a Ginsey foldable potty seat and it was too small to fit our toilet at home, she almost fell in, it definitely would not work with public toilets on the way down or in the parks. If it comes down to it I will just bring her regular potty seat, but was hoping to find something I can fold up. Any suggestions? Thanks

 

[SevenWonkas]

I am following this post! I was just coming on here to write my own post asking this same question! My stubborn son is also 3 years old (38 months) and is just starting to pee consistently on the potty. We have a seat we can put in the suitcase for the hotel, but need something for the parks...

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[Habbott]

This is what we had. It worked well for us. While it can be a travel potty, we almost exclusively used it as a potty topper. The little legs fold flat and extend to sit on top of the seat, and they didn't scoot around. Much sturdier than the other type. It was still small enough to tuck it's bag into the backpack.

http://www.amazon.com/Kalencom-2-in-1-Potette-Plus-Blue/dp/B0016L0MMS/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1414343595&sr=8-6&keywords=folding+potty+seat

 

[Reese]

I found a portable Dora the Explorer one at Walmart years ago and we've used that one on many trips. Folds up nice, pop it in a bag in the knapsack and I just too some Lysol wipes with us to wipe it down at the end of the day.

 

[supertinyluckycat]

We went in September with my LO who had been potty trained for about 5 months. We have the pottete which can be a travel potty and a topper. However we didn't even bring it. I just sat all the way back on the seat and kind of set her between my legs if that makes sense. With my pants on lol. She's only 2 though so maybe she's smaller.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Teach her to balance using her hands. The daycare did that with our oldest when she was just over a year old. The first time I saw it, I nearly died of laughter. But it was great not needing the little seat. She refused to use it.

 

[mjkacmom]

Teach her to use the regular seat. None of my kids used a special seat out (only used it at home for the first week or so). We took dd13 to Hershey Park a week after she declared she was done with diapers, right after she turned 2, and we didn't bring anything for her (and she's always been very tiny (almost 14 and still only 75 pounds).

 

[Roobear77]

You can also teach her to sit a little further back with wide legs, that way she won't even need to hold with her hands.

I can see that potette being handy as an actual travel potty for long car rides when newly trained. Nothing worse that a little one that says "I have to go NOW" with no rest stop in sight!

 

[Lupeix]

I have used the Kalecom pottete plus as a potty seat on several public bathrooms and it worked great, it can also be used as an emergency potty with the bags on the road if far away from a public restroom.

It is a little bulky, so recently I have ditched it in favor of a tip an expert mom told me, which is to seat your kiddo facing backwards on public toilets, you have to take pants off completely from one side but it works like a charm.
And don't forget to bring post-its to block the sensor on the automatic flushing toilets, they terrify newly potty trained toddlers.

 

[laughinplace199]

I bought one of those foldable travel potty seats for our first WDW trip when DD15 was 3. It was a hassle and it sometimes pinched her legs where it folded.

I ended up just positioning her sideways on the U-shaped seats and holding her under her arms so she wouldn't fall. I tossed the seat and just did the sideways thing for my boys when they were out of diapers.