Any non Pull-up users?

mysweetpeasWil&Wes wrote: No debates please. But I'm wondering if I'm the only one who isn't so fond of the Pull-ups. They just seem like a fancy diaper IMO. And I have friends who have said it held their kids back from PT.

Wil is so not ready to go straight to underwear. Tried and he peed straight through them the first five minutes. So my mom told me about training pants....they are more of a cloth diaper - closer to underwear in weight but won't soak through as much. She said my sister and I hated the wet feeling. I haven't tried buying any yet. So I was wondering for those who don't use Pull-ups, what do you use and where do you buy what you use?

I know there is a lot to PT, but I just can't get a grasp on when Wil is ready to transition out of diapers. He sometimes sits on the potty, but like I said about the underwear, he really has no idea that it's not okay to pee pee in them. How do you tell them "we pee in the potty, not our underwear" when you don't want to make them feel ashamed for what they did?

Like everything else in my life right now, I'm at a loss.

coasterqueen replied: Kylie was in pull-ups very early on, like 18 months, maybe earlier. DH and I just found them easier. Megan has been in them since about 20 months, I guess. She would have been in them sooner but she's a lot smaller and we had to wait til she could fit in them. Again, just much easier to use them for us, not sure why but DH was the one on this who wanted the pull-ups vs. diapers.

It didn't hold Kylie back from training - She day trained at 27 months and night trained at around 36 months. Megan will be 27 months in a week or so, and is not really ready to train, but I don't think the pull-ups are holding her back, either. She's actually been sitting on the potty several times a week to pass gas , but that's all. She has pooped on the potty twice, too, on her own. But that was months ago, and nothing else.

I say go with what you are comfortable with. I personally think the Pull-ups have nothing to do with when they train, it's up to the kid - plain and simple for me.

luvmykids replied: I tried the training pants but for me Pull ups were just easier since you can detach the sides rather than have to pull the whole wet (or poopy) mess off. I don't think it held them back on PT'ing either, I agree with Karen, it just depends on the kid.

Anyway, as far as readiness goes, I don't really remember. It seemed to kind of just happen, I do remember making a big deal out of ME going potty LOL, "Look what mommy did, I went pee pee in the potty!" kind of thing

One thing you can try is 20 minutes after a snack, drink, or meal, put him on the potty with a book and just see what happens. It seems like that was how my kids made the connection....once they'd gone in the potty a few times they were able to have the "Aha!" moment.

And don't let anyone pressure you into trying to PT, my grandmother swears all five of her kids were PT'd by their second bday but the twins were much older than two, I think Colt was actually closer to three. Macie PT'd right at two but I think it helped a lot that she thinks she should do whatever they do.

zdk753 replied: I also didn't use pull-ups. Like you I felt like they were just another form of a diaper. I really think if I had used them my kids wouldn't have been trained as fast. I just put them in training pants. I found when they were wearing them & started to go they would run to the bathroom. They hated to be wet. If I put them in a pull up though they would mess in them all day long. I bought mine at K-Mart. The thing I did was to start paying more attention to how long it was between wet diapers than I would time them & put them on the toilet. After the first couple of times of going in the toilet they started getting the hang of it.

coasterqueen replied: Monica

Just so you know pull-ups tear at the sides so you don't have to pull a poopy diaper down or else that would make a mess.

tammyhopkins replied: I used Pull ups because of the mess if they pooped. But for me the pull ups delayed the potty training i think .Because josh thought of it as a diaper.

Josh is 3 and a half and finally stopped about a month ago. thank god

Maddie&EthansMom replied: I agree that it's a readiness thing. Maddie trained herself basically. She was easy. She wore pull ups only at night and once she stayed dry for several nights in a row, we stopped buying them.

Ethan has been more difficult. He didn't get the whole potty deal at first and was having major accidents so I put a pull up on him to see how we would progress and he basically didn't. It was just like a diaper for him and he wouldn't even sit on the potty. So, I let him run around nekkid and in undies so he could feel that he was wet. That seemed to help. It's taken him a long time to catch on though. He just now last week started going to potty by himself. Now he tells me when he needs to go (when we are out). And he only wears a pull up at night. Most nights he wakes up dry. And we are still having poop issues where he won't poop in the potty.

Potty training is MESSY!!! At least training a boy has been. Wait til you are out in public and they need to go. I hate public restrooms.

luvbug00 replied: me. we went straight to panties and pt took not long at all.

boyohboyohboy replied: when caleb was younger, we got those cloth underware from kmart and walmart, it was just like regular underware, in the section where you get little babies onsies, it was underware that had an extra thick bottom, like it had a cloth diaper folded up in there....it held more water and what ever..
that way he felt like he was wearing regular underware, and they come with characters, i think he was into buzz light year then....and they worked great. he was trained easily...

mysweetpeasWil&Wes replied:
I think this is what my mom is talking about. I'll have to go look for them. Thanks

Yeah, its all different for different kids. Its interesting to hear everyone's stories/differences. That they worked for some and not for others. Thanks for the input!

Maddie&EthansMom replied: Oh yeah, those training pants...Maddie had those too. It just held more in that normal undies. I didn't buy them for Ethan but I should have. They are just like underwear.

Kaitlin'smom replied: Kaitlin was in them for a while, she trained in them for pee fine but poo nope she did better with just undies 2 accidents was all it took and that was it. She was easy to night train as well she was not having any accidents with the pull ups, so when we got low I told her once they are gone no more, she has only ever has once accident at night

luvmykids replied:
That's what I meant, it came out wrong. That was the whole reason I preferred pull ups

Maddy'sMommy replied: I am potty training Maddy now... and she seems to do better in pull ups than regular undies. I tried the undies today b/c she has been doing so good with no accidents ... she had 3 accidents in the panties just this morning so I put the pull up on for nap time and after and she had been accident free! I was actually just at Walmart looking for the training pants and my walmart did not have any. I will have to look at kmart. Anyways Good Luck to you.

My3LilMonkeys replied: We used Pull ups on Brooke for night only - for daytime she went right to undies. Madison is just starting to PT and we have not bought pull ups for her yet, but I think we may - I have a feeling she's going to be a bit more difficult to train than Brooke was.

MyBabeMaddie replied: My goal (probably pretty unrealistic) is to have Maddie poddy trained by 18 months! Ha, I know its possible my mom said I was using the potty by 16 months... So here's to hoping.

mysweetpeasWil&Wes replied:
Its possible! A friend PT her DD at 18 months, well she said that she PT herself. Then a guy at DH's work said his DD is already PT at 11 months (she's a week younger than Wesley)...I'm not sure I buy it, but that's what he said!

moped replied:
Yeah that is VERY young - but I have heard of it!

coasterqueen replied:
DH and his sister were both supposedly PT by the time they were 12 months.

Mommy2BAK replied: Blakely has actually been very easy, and we didn't even use pull-ups, I've been told they are a waste of money, which I don't have extra of, lol, so we just take the diaper off and put the dry ones back on after she goes potty

Boo&BugsMom replied: Me!

Well, my story is a little of both though. I'll try to make it short. Tanner's hips are very wide. When he was about 2, even the size 6 diapers (we use Luvs) started giving him cuts into his skin. Poor kid was getting cuts from his diapers because they were too tight on him, but yet he was still young. So, because of the cutting issues, I put him in pull ups. Now, I didn't use them to train him. In fact, he didn't care about the pull ups. However, I did find them easier to use and change on him. Once he got to a certain weight I started to change his diaper standing up, so the pulls ups were SO MUCH easier for me. Not all pull ups have the refastenable sides, but most do now, and I always used those ones.

As far as using them for potty training, I don't think they are anything but a fancy diaper that the manufacturers produce just to make more money. Think about it...it will keep children in diapers longer so in the long run, making them more money. Because, some parents think that just by putting them in pull ups will somehow magically train them. So, I don't believe in using them for training purposes. However, I did like using them as a "diaper alternative". I think it's important for children to feel the wetness when training. Kids usually don't care if they continue to poop or pee in a pull up because they can't feel anything different than what they feel in a diaper...which is nothing but dryness. JMO. Some kids are easy to train with or without feeling wet, but some children are much harder, which is why the wetness is important IMO.

ETA: just a random thought...it's not the diapers or pull ups that train the child, it's the parent that trains the child. So, pull up or no pull up...doesn't really matter "usually".

My2Beauties replied: I used those underwear for Hanna, they are really thick in the middle so that they definitely feel wet but it won't necessarily run all down their leg and mess the floor, unless if he's anything like Hanna and pees a river when he goes I tried Pull-Ups and hated them, they were another diaper to her, she peed and pooped in them like it was going out of style, they never helped, she never felt wet and they leaked really bad, just like underwear if you ask me, I thought she might as well wear underwear and feel more wet. After 3 days of those underwear she got the point. She only had to wear a diaper or pull-up at night, and then after not peeing in bed for a week straight, which she did it fast, she was out of them for good. Hanna to this day, has only peed the bed twice, she was PT'd completely at 24 months. But...I think children are different, I have friends who swear by the pull-up and others that agree with me, so I think it depends on the child and their readiness. My only thing is if they're in underwear, they have no choice, either they feel wet or they pee in the potty, with pull-ups they pee and don't feel wet so it doesn't matter. JMHO.