[DK615617]

For those of you that I don't know on Facebook, Tiffany potty trained herself the weekend of Memorial Day. She just decided no more diaplers, she wanted her big girl pants on!!!
Well, things are going great, she has had a few accidents outside because she was too busy to go in to pee. But at home and at Gma's she is doing great.

The only thing is when we go out I put her in a diaper. I guess I shouldn't, I just dread the whole public rest room thing!!!! Especially with Jessica too!! I would have to bring her in the carrier in there and set it on the floor-----eeeewwwwwww. Or I would always have to use the stroller so I could just wheel Jessi in. Arghh. I don't know.
I try to stay home more for now, but I tend to always seem to have somewhere I have to go!
I did buy a potty for the car, and I need to get it out of the box and put it out there. I think that might be the best thing for now, to just have her potty before we run into the store in hopes of avoiding the rest room!!!!
Am I nuts??????

[kalhayd2]

The sell little portable potty things that go over the public restroom seats. Honestly, I think by putting a diaper on her while you go out may be just confusing her. I'd just bite the bullet and try the public bathroom thing if need be. Bring cleaning wipes with you or whatever you have to do to make yourself comfortable. The things K finds and puts in her mouth.. public restrooms are the least of my worries.

Good luck.

[Samual]

I agree with kalhayd, I don't think you should use a potty in the car either otherwise she will probably learn that the car can be used as a toilet and form a bad habit with it. Your chopping board in your kitchen will carry deadlier and more bacteria than any toilet seat gross but will either make you less worried about public toilets or will make you throw your chopping boards away!

[purelegance]

i have to agree with pp's. i think going in the car is going to make her think that the car is an ok place to potty. i've actually found several of the little travel potty seats, they're all $10 and fold up small.

most places are required to clean their bathrooms X amount of times a day. target's required to do it once an hour, i believe walmart is the same. it's a pain, but it's all apart of the dirty deed that is potty training.

[DK615617]

I am not as much afraid of all the dirt or germs, as much as getting Jessica in the restroom with us and being able to have my hands free to help Tiffany up onto the potty, without putting Jessica on the floor. My stroller is a double stoller, so I don't know that it will fit into a stall with us. That is my problem with the public rest rooms, lack of room.

Also, my other dilemma is that we live kind of in the country.......a trip to the mall is 40 minutes, a trip to the park with shade over the slides (Brutally hot sun) is 40 minutes.
Tiffany can't hold it that long......she had to pee yesterday on the way home, and there was no where to take her to the potty at.......just the one in the car. Yikes, I agree with what everyone said about not using the one in the car, yet, I don't know that we will make it too many places without it. I guess as she gets more used to this she will start to hold it longer. She makes a million trips to the potty all day at home.
She only wore a diaper for nap and bed yesterday!!!!
So if I don't use the one in the car, does this mean I am going to spend half of my life in public rest rooms????
Samual---- the comment about the cutting boards is going to stay with me. I will be thinking about it next time I use a cutting board. Yuck!!!!!!

[Samual]

Use the disabled toilet, they will have enough room, here you are allowed to use them if you have a push chair with you.

[kalhayd2]

Good idea, Samual.

[KR258]

We have the same stroller as you and have used the disabled one...also we use the family potty room whenever there is one! Kate has a folding potty seat we take with us but she's not using the potty....yet. But yep...def fits it's not always easy to get into but when ya gotta go you have to go and I'm usually out alone (which at this point is sooo not worth it!!!!!! but we need to go out sometimes)