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Originally Posted by claras_mom  Dd wouldn't potty train until she was in underpants, for exactly that reason. If she's in a pull-up, she has no reason to pay attention to her body's signals.
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Yep, DS1 showed absolutely 0 interest in potty training and if there is a real difference between a pullup and regular diapers he didn't see it. I knew from his diaper schedule that he was holding in for pretty long periods though so physically he was probably ok for it.
We just took off his diaper one day when he was about 3, put him in underpants and cleaned up a few pee puddles the first couple days while he figured out that underpants don't work quite like diapers. It really didn't take any more than that before he was pretty much trained. Fortunately I had gotten him in the habit of pooing on the toilet already (just picked him up and stuck him on it when I saw he needed to go starting around 18m) so for us that wasn't an issue. There was a fair amount of laundry for "leaking" right before he had to go though in the beginning so keeping a large stock of fresh undies was important.
It was about another 6 months in pullups at night though but even that went pretty well all things considered ymmv.
In our case we don't have wall to wall carpeting so floor cleanup was a lot easier than it would have been otherwise. If I had all carpeting I would probably have been a lot more reluctant to try the "take it off and see" approach.
I really recommend Hanna Anderson things. Yes, they're more expensive than some others, but they're also much higher quality; the elastic isn't as tight; and you don't have to even think about characters. And for boys, they do make the boxer style.
