Cloth Diapering
stoneycakes
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S/O Potty training/learning
stoneycakes
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How can you tell when they're ready? DS is obsessed with his little potty, but is satisfied to sit on it with his pants and everything on, lol. He often says he has to go to the bathroom but I think the whole ordeal of getting his diaper and pants off makes him clam up. He's only peed in the bathroom once and that was with his dad at a urinal. Another time he asked to pee in the potty, then changed his mind, asked to get off and peed on the floor. He definitely didn't do it defiantly, though. He looked shocked when it came out onto his feet, haha. Should I just try putting him in underwear and see what happens? Is it too early? I don't want to scar him for life.
Also, what about nighttime? He pees a ridiculous amount during the night. And he can be a light sleeper. I don't want his sleep to go to hell if he feels like he needs to get up to use the bathroom. Is that a thing?
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Re: S/O Potty training/learning
When Asher started showing interest like that, I just went gung ho and kept him naked in the house for 4 days. We stayed in the kitched (easy to clean floor) and watched movies on his little dvd player, played games and did arts and crafts. Everytime he started to pee I picked him up and ran to the potty. Most of the pee was on the floor, but it helped him understand when to go. By the end of the first day, he had two successes. By the end of the second day he had only one accident. By the end of the third day, no accidents, fourth day no accidents. Then he went commando under shorts for a week, one accident. I didn't pull the car over fast enough. Then after that undies and no accidents ever until I had Lola and he had a regression of sorts.
Night training was never an issue for us. He did it himself. He went to bed with a cloth trainer and kept waking up dry. One night I forgot to put one on, he was dry in the morning and we've never looked back.
We thought she was doing really well, so we let her wear undies. She loved them and we told her she could only wear them if she used the potty. Some days were better than others. Unfortunately, she didn't seem bothered by the fact that she had to change them and her clothes whenever she peed or pooped in them.
We've since gone back to diapers only b/c we've had too many incidences (like pooping on the floor 5 min after she had peed in the potty) and we were tired of all the cleaning/changing.
She seems to have no desire to poop in the potty and would rather go in her diaper or undies. Maybe she's just not ready? I think we'll try again in a few weeks. It would be nice to have her in undies full time when I go back to work and the girls are at grandma's during the day.
We're in a similar place. DS loves to sit on his potty and read books. He even asked yesterday morning and did a big poop on the potty for the first time. He peed in it once recently on purpose. Mostly we just hang out pants-free and sit on it whenever. He usually just stays dry the whole time and pees when we put a diaper back on to go somewhere. I haven't been very consistent though and with a new baby coming so soon, I don't really expect we could accomplish anything that would stick. I'm just happy he likes the potty and reading his potty books. Then we put the cute diapers back on.
ETA: Shortly after posting, pantless DS was wandering around saying "we can clean it up" so I went to look for the pee. No pee anywhere, so I asked if he needed to sit on the potty. I just got the book as he started pooping. Two days in a row, poop on the potty!