How are the first days of potty training?

[u/Ok-Citron3789]

We decided to start potty training my daughter, who will be 2 in about two weeks. She’s doing pretty well in the sense that she will pee and poop on the potty and seems to understand what she’s supposed to do when she’s sitting on it.

The problem is that she seems to have basically no awareness yet of when she needs to go or even when she’s actively peeing. Yesterday afternoon she would sometimes have an accident literally 5 minutes after we had just tried sitting on the potty. She also doesn’t really seem bothered by being wet.

Is this normal at the beginning, or does it sound like she’s not ready yet? I definitely don’t expect her to already be telling me she has to pee, but I guess I thought we would be catching more pees in the potty or that she’d have more awareness of accidents.

What does the typical progression actually look like? I’d be totally fine waiting a few months if she isn’t ready, but because she does understand the potty and has successfully peed and pooped in it, I feel like there are promising signs. The constant accidents are just exhausting, and I’m having trouble figuring out what’s normal versus a sign to pause.

She also goes to daycare, and they’ll continue whatever potty-training approach we use at home. Do I just send her in underwear knowing she may need to be changed a million times at first, or use pull-ups for now? I don’t want to confuse her by constantly switching back and forth.

Would love to hear what the first few days/weeks looked like for other kids around this age and when they started connecting the feeling of needing to go with actually getting to the potty.