Toddler using loo on plane?

[mrsminniemouse]

Hi!
Have any parents got any tips for me on taking my recently potty trained DD2 to the loo on the plane?

She has been potty trained for about 6 weeks and is doing really well. I will put a pull up on her for the journey just in case she has an accident while sleeping or something. She thinks the pull ups are knickers and will tell us if she needs the loo. We plan on taking her every couple of hours anyway so she doesn't ask when we cannot take her (during take off or turbulence, when there is a long line...)

But how will we physically manage in the toliet cubicle on board? At home she uses a potty or sometimes an adaptor seat on the big loo. We have a travel potty (but nowhere to put it in plane loo cubicle) or a folding toilet seat to go on the plane toilet (will there be room for me to bend down to hold her on?)

Sorry for all this toilet talk. Just hoping an experienced parent can give me some tips. This is DD's fifth frip to WDW but it was nappies before.

Thanks so much to anyone who is still reading!


Mandy

 

[FizzyPop]

They are pretty small the toilets but a little toddler wont take up much space
I would say there will be room for you to bend over and hold her on

 

[disneyholic family]

funny how we forget things.....we travel by plane constantly and have been since the kids were born....they're now 21 and 18 and for the life of me i can't remember taking them to the bathroom on planes (and we certainly did, since our overseas flights are 12 hours non-stop)...

i never brought anything with us, so i guess i must have held them on the seat.......hopefully, you're not a big person, since airplane bathrooms barely fit thin people (i remember barely being able to close the door when i was pregnant)...

 

[UKDEB]

You might want to move her well away from the toilet before flushing - those things are scary! They make such a noise and flush so violently that it seems to me that the entire interior of the plane could get sucked down!

 

[Obi Wan Kenobi]

Out three year old is not happy about unsing the aircraft loo due to the size of the cubicle, but we just hold him on the loo seat and flush when the door is open
If you are concerened, take some nappies just for the flights.
Wal Mart by the way has some great child loo seats, with Dora the explorer and others on them

 

[mrsminniemouse]

Thanks for the relpies. I guess i will just have to hold her over the loo. I had thought about the flush- it is so loud isn't it?

I will buy a Dora toliet seat in Walmart, I saw them online, she will love it. She is mad about Dora.

Daren't tell her to wee in a nappy though, it will undo all my hard work!!!!!!!!!!!! (''You're a big girl now, you use the potty/toilet, only babies use nappies'' blah blah blah)

Thanks everyone!
Mandy

 

[gbrchill]

When we first travelled with our son he had "travel pants" for the journey. You should have just about enough room to squeeze into the loo with your daughter and hold on to her as she perches on th seat. Probably best to leave the toilet flushing until you have the door open and are on your way out, you can just reach back and push the switch/handle. There's usually enough of a delay between doing that and the vicious sucking noise that you'll be a couple of steps away.

My son had a traumatic experience at the MK. He was balenced on the toilet seat wriggling about and doing his thing when he moved a little too far forward and had his bottom washed by the automatic flush. He resused to sit on another toilet there for the rest of the trip. However, he did like the automatic taps - so hand washing wasn't a problem.

Chris.

 

[Obi Wan Kenobi]

Yes, what my son calles "the clever toilets"

 

[mrsminniemouse]

My son had a traumatic experience at the MK. He was balenced on the toilet seat wriggling about and doing his thing when he moved a little too far forward and had his bottom washed by the automatic flush. He resused to sit on another toilet there for the rest of the trip. However, he did like the automatic taps - so hand washing wasn't a problem.

Chris.

Poor little thing! I am told that a post it stick note over the sensor stops this happening. Anyone tried that?

Mandy

 

[JanElliott]

My DH (14) became so traumatised by the automatic loos in WDW that I had to go in each time and stand there with my hand over the sensor. Next time it will be the post-it notes - what a good idea!

 

[Clare D]

I would try to use the loo with the baby changing facility in them as they are slightly bigger. My DS is 2 and has been potty trained for the last 5/6 months but I am going to take pull ups to be on the safe side. I am also going to watch his liquid intake as knowing my luck he will need the loo when the seat belt signs are still on. If you hold her under her arms I'm sure she will be fine.
Good luck and have a great trip

 

[gilld]

We used to have an inflatable potty with plastic bag liners so if there was an enormous queue...and when isn't there...we could let them "go" in the potty on the floor in front of their seat, seal the bag and dispose of it. BUT, I'm talking 20+ years ago now so they may no longer be available!

 

[lexie32]

i'm loving this thread!!! all the things i will have to consider as my ds (nearly 11months) grows up.

 

[allie5]

Nothing constructive to add, though we did use pull ups when we took DD who was 6 weeks potty trained on one of our trips. No problems and she used the plane loo fine.

Just wanted to say how lucky you are that your little one is trained. My son will be 3 on the 20th September and Im struggling like mad to train him!! I wont go into details but nothing is working!! Please pass on any tips!!

Allie

 

[mrsminniemouse]

Just wanted to say how lucky you are that your little one is trained. My son will be 3 on the 20th September and Im struggling like mad to train him!! I wont go into details but nothing is working!! Please pass on any tips!!

Allie

Hi Allie, sorry to hear you are having trouble training DS. Try the Gina Ford Potty Training in a week book, it is very good, down to earth sensible advice.

On ivillage.co.uk there is a message board about sleeping and potty training- you could look on there for help with any specific problems with potty training. I have heard boys are harder to train than girls. In the end my friend resorted to giving her DS a choc button every time he used the potty. Turned out he liked the big loo better but with the choc incentive he trained pretty quick (especially as she witheld all other sweet treats)

Mandy

Where in Essex are you? I am in Gidea Park.

 

[carolfoy]

Hi Allie5 don't worry! he'll get there eventually, when was the last time you saw a 5 year old with a nappy on? Mine took ages but he was excellant as soon as he was trained and not spilt a drop since!

 

[gbrchill]

Just wanted to say how lucky you are that your little one is trained. My son will be 3 on the 20th September and Im struggling like mad to train him!! I wont go into details but nothing is working!! Please pass on any tips!!

Don't worry. It will happen when he's ready. I can vividly remember the first few weeks when our son decided he was going to have "pants days". It was just after Christmas and we had just moved into a new house, that the builders were still trying to fix. He didn't have much of a clue and after a pile of washing we decided it was easier just letting him run around the house without trousers. He'd soon learn what the cold damp feeling was all about.

It didn't take him long to get the hang of pees, especially with the proactive prompting. Poos were a different matter though and took much longer. Up until we went to WDW he was opting to go behind the couch in the lounge and hatch a poo in the pants rather than to the toilet. It must have been the Disney magic that did it for him, from the day we arrived at POR we had no more poos in the pants.

DW and I still look back at the pant days and laugh.

Chris.

 

[tink too]

As the plane loo cubicles are sooo small, we found the toilet seats were a bit smaller, too - no problems for DD3! She thought the "turbo flush" was very cool (but only to watch from a safe distance while washing her hands!) and then the question "Where's it going now mummy - does it go out the bottom of the plane?"

The WDW autoflush toilets did just that with her before she was "all done" and we also saw many a confused senior asking where the flushers were or saying the toilet was broken! We had to teach many an old lady how to wash their hands (as they tried furiously to rip the taps off the walls.)