Big Girl Panties

HI when i potty trained my daughter she was about to be 2 years old. i tried the pull up deal for 1 day and i noticed it wasnt working out. I put Pretty undies on her and she didnt like the feeling of being wet or getting her pretty undies dirty. she only had a couple of accidents but she would tell me when she needed to use the bathroom. i think the feeling of a pull up, felt like a diaper. Although i wold put the pull ups on at night.

We did. We never went through the pull up stage. My daughter considered them diapers and wanted to wear big girl panties so we went shopping and she picked out all her favorite characters. She has been potty trained for a few months now and she will be three in February. Good luck!

I went to panties, i got her the princess ones, she loved them so much she didnt want to get them dirty. I tried the pull ups first though, to me pull ups are just like diapers, if they need to go they are going to use them, i think they are useless. I would do the panties. Good Luck!
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Big girl panties worked for us. I put them on my daughter a month after her 2nd birthday and she was potty trained within a week. She had three accidents and did not like the feeling of being wet so she told me from then on every time she had to go. She is now 2 1/2 and is nap time trained too. :)

Yes, I put my son in underwear right away to help with training & he was completely trained in 2 weeks. I got extra thick underwear to help contain "accidents" & also plastic pants to go over the underwear for when we had to leave the house. Once he was staying dry all day, I took him to the store & let him pick out all the character undies he wanted. It went great : )

For both of my girls I went straight from diapers to panties "full time" except for nighttime. It is very messy, and my little one, after 2 months will still go a little bit in her panties and then say she has to go, she usually does save most of it for the potty. I say skip the pull-ups - my nephew wore pull ups for over a year because there was no reason to have any urgency about anything and I think it is a lazy way to go. Esp. if you stay at home. Take 3 or 4 days where you don't go out at all and just go for it. she will get it pretty quickly, and then you can demand that she goes before getting into the carseat, stroller, etc. We had the best luck with a reward system. Good luck!

My two year old has been potty trained for about 9 mos now and to this day if she is wearing a pull up (which she does at night) she will go in it - even poop!! Definitely go straight to the big girl panties - it needs to feel different to your little one and a pull up feels just like a diaper. Good luck!!

Just go for it... The worse that could happen is she leaks. Get yourself some good and thick training panties and try it out. My 23 monthy old tends to do very well with the panties on..much better than when we use the pull -ups. I swear she knows that I can just rip them off and throw them away, but with the panties..I have to wash them and so she gets a bit sad when she wets them. Good luck.

Well. My baby girl is now 41 years old but when she was your daughters age (closer to 2) and understood the concept, I bought her some panties with ruffles on them and called them her "Cha Cha" pants, and she loved them. But. She could only wear them if she stayed dry and clean. It worked! Within 5 days she was completely potty trained. Good luck.

In my experience (and I just potty trained my fourth child in the last 4 months) if you put them in a diaper or pull up...they will use it. I put my 2 1/2 year old in big girl panties from the very beginning - as soon as she would go in the potty. You may need to ask more often if she needs to go, or sometimes just take her when you think it's been a while. My little one has had very few accidents in her big girl panties, I think 3 since the very beginning, but if I leave her in a pull up she pees in it almost every time. I still use pull ups for naptime, bedtime, and long car rides but for everything else - she's in panties. Good luck!

My daughter is now over 3 years old. We tried the whole "enforcement" of potty training with no success. One day when she was about 26 months old she just woke up in the morning, said she had to go potty, and that was the end of diapers. We took her to the store that day and let her pick out her own panties. She has had maybe 3 accidents in the over 1 year she has been potty trained. Pull ups are just a waste of money and effort.

Good Luck!

Ive always been told that once you start to potty train DO NOT STOP for any reason. I found this out after i stoped to go out of state also so now were struggling its not her its that we havent been consistent enough so we need to back track a bit and take more time they say it just takes a bit longer than it would have if you had never stopped. my son is 2 and were doing the same thing right so hang in there!!

I agree with the other ladies. Pull-ups don't do a thing. I think that is just another way for the companies to trick us in thinking that it is do different than diapers. Get her some panties that she can pick out. Explain to her why she is getting it. "You are such a big girl now and it is time for you not to use diapers anymore. That is for babies and you are not a baby anymore." Then just have her wear them. She will have accidents but over time she will not like the feeling and would go to use the potty everytime. And when she does... you can do a potty dance or something when she does it. Just to let her know how proud you are. yea, we do alot of hoops I tell ya!! lol If you have a carpet, the baby stores sell those plastic diapers that go over their underwear so it can collect the stuff she does. Yea, I thought it was nasty but we moms have to do what we have to do. And just give her time. And at night, you can put some diapers for the night until she shows you she can keep them dry during the night. Then once you are satisfied, you can have her wear her panties at night. I hope this works for you in anyway! good luck.

Hi M.,

I think potty-training is different for everyone. I have three boys, 11, 3, & 2, and so far it has been different for all of them. My oldest I had potty-trained by 2 no problems. My 3 year old was doing what your daughter does. I tried to train him a couple of months before he turned three and was doing what your daughter is doing. I waited until 3 months after he turned three and I put him in underware and I took him to the bathroom every 15-30 minutes. He had a couple of accidents but he tells me now and he is fully trained. It took about 3 days for him to fully get it. At night we give him a little water and wake him up to go to the bathroom at least once a night and he hasn't had accidents. I did give him those mini
m&m's, he got 1 for #1 and 2 for #2. I had to give my 2 year old the treat too everytime his brother went and now he tells me he has to go. Once you start don't stop and tell her the diapers don't fit her anymore now that she is a big girl.
A trick for girls is to put them in satin or silk panties, this way when they have an accident it gets cold and uncomfortable instead of cotten that is more absorbent. My friends that have tried it said it worked for their daughters. Good luck!

Children are fickle, and with potty training it will not always be consistent in their response to it and 'telling' you. Beware that sometimes with potty training, there may be times when they make great progress, then go backwards. One thing though is, not to 'force' the issue. They are either ready, or not. Age, does not really decide 'when' they are ready or not, in my experience. At this age though, you could try the panties. Make it 'special' for her, go to the store, and let her help you 'decide' what panties she wants.... it's for "her" to be a 'big-girl.' Let her have some 'control' over what panties she likes and wants to wear. Gerber has some cute cotton 'training' panties that have a lining of 'padding' in that area...in case there are little leakages etc. We trained my daughter with those first, and it was required at preschool. (they have them at Walmart in my area). Sometimes, the child is just not ready, not matter how communicative their development may be. Toilet readiness is another issue. Some use stickers as an 'incentive' or other kinds of 'bribes'/'rewards.' Also, asking the child every couple hours or so, if they need to go, is good at getting them to 'remember.' Or, taking them to the bathroom every couple hours (or some do it every hour), and then have them sit on the potty etc. Just keep in mind, never to 'force' that they go, or make them feel embarrassed about it, or compare them to others. Sometimes, they just 'decide' on their own, that they are a 'big girl' and they will just surprise you and go to the bathroom all by themselves. Another thing that can help, and helped my daughter, is we showed her one of those ;going to the potty' videos, and she really thought it was 'fun' and it made her go. Again, you can try the panties, but if she doesn't take to the idea.. just leave it be, don't make her stress about it, then in a few days, try again. Much like introducing different foods to a child. Sometimes they just need to get used to the 'new' idea of it. Others, spend a weekend 'diaper-less' and let the child be bare bottomed, and then all weekend, keep the potty close by and keeping close tabs on them, have them only go on the potty, despite accidents. The idea is that if they have accidents they will then 'go' on the toilet. There is no real silver bullet to get them trained over night that i know of... but you can try different things. Each child responds to different things in their own way. Good luck...your girl is almost there!
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I don't have a girl, but with my little boy we went straight to big boy underwear and it worked like a charm. We had a total of 2 accidents and he HATED the way it felt. I got really familiar with every public bathroom in my area though. :) I remember leaving my full shopping cart on several occasions and racing through the grocery store after his, "I have to potty Mama!!". Good luck!!

G.

that worked best for us too....pullups did nothing.

I have a 3 almost 4 yo little boy. That was the make-it or brake-it thing for us. He was in pull-ups for 9 months. Finally we just did big boy undies and it took 3 days. They don't want to get them dirty. I would say go for it. It also helped us that we'd just had a baby at the time. Instead of regressing, he wanted to be a big boy, not a baby, and didn't want to wear the diapers like his baby sister.