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s/o tell me about Pull Ups
Like when can you start using them?
Warner has gone pee-pee on the potty exactly 3 times now (YAY!!!!!!), and while he's definitely nowhere near ready to do full on potty training (I don't think, but honestly, I have effing clue what to do), it would be nice if we could use a pull up so that when he does tell me he needs to go, we get him on the potty faster. (oh, also, moms of boys...you start with sit-down pees, right? I mean, I really have no clue how to teach him how to stand up to pee...)
Are Pull Ups just as absorbent as diapers? I would imagine that I'd still put a regular diaper on him at night, because he usually wakes up with a pretty full one. But during the day, do you think I could go ahead and start using Pull Ups?
And finally, are there any good books about potty training for the parents? I feel like I need more than just Once Upon a Potty...and I am ridiculously intimidated by this process.
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Re: s/o tell me about Pull Ups
Don't know about potty training boys as I only have girls, but skip the pull-ups and go straight to underwear or pants-free if its warm enough and you will be at home. Most kids can't tell the difference between pull-ups and diapers, so you're just spending money on nothing. Put your DS on the potty every hour or so just to get him used to it and increase your odds of actually getting something in the potty - then he'll associate peeing with the potty. I would still use a diaper at night if he is still waking up wet (and also for naps).
We are still in the middle of potty training even though DD #1 has been peeing the potty with no accidents for 7.5 months. She just won't use a big potty (we have a little one and a seat for the big potty, but she's scared of the big potty) and she absolutely won't poop in the potty. She will ask for a diaper or hold it until we give in. No amount of bribing or talking about it has convinced her it's a good idea to poop in the potty. Luckily for me it's DH's job to change her poopy diaper
Good luck! It's a slow process and can be frustruating. I just remind myself that she won't go to college still in diapers.
I'm in the middle of potty training my son. We use underwear during the day and diapers or pull-ups at night. Before we started potty training, he would use the potty at bathtime. I bought pull-ups, but they were kind of a waste.
The best way to teach him to pee standing up is to send him to the potty with Daddy!
I can't remember - are you home with Warner?
Like pp's I think pull ups are not necessary if you are potty training at home and don't mind a few puddles.
We've begun the process with DD #2 - just this past week while MIL was home with her and our infant DS - and I sent her to daycare in a pull up today. For us, we have to do pull ups because DCP doesn't want our kid in underwear until they're DONE with potty training. I kind of hate it because I know PT-ing would go faster if DCP would just let us send her in panties and risk a few puddles - but I totally understand that she doesn't want to deal with that with the other kids she's watching.
If I was home with DD #2 for a week I'm positive I could get her trained 85 - 90%. It's totally intimidating, but once you get into it, it's really not that hard - you just have to be patient and keep expectations reasonable. We're staring with DD #2 now because we want her to start in her big sister's preschool this Fall and the kids have to be totally PT'd. DD #2 is 27 months old.
Pull-ups are just glorified diapers, your kid will know he can pee in them. They are also 2-3times more expensive than diapers! Skip them if you can. The only reason we have them is b/c DCP won't take the kids to the bathroom in diapers. Now we only use them at nap and bedtime. They are actually more absorbent than diapers I think.
See if you can get him to poop on the potty. As soon as you know it's coming (he grunts, face turns red, you know the signs), put him on. That will make your life so much easier and cleaner! Both of my kids were/are pooping on the potty well before the 1st b-day. For us, with DD, peeing took a lot longer.
I have The Everything Potty training book but I got it from freecycle, I don't think you need to buy any books, there are tons of resources online, there is a PT board on the bump. I found the 3-day training manual on babycenter (I believe, someone posted about it on the PT board), but it's really just 3 days of going naked (no diapers, pullups, underwear) and then 3 months until it really sinks in. Good luck and try not to get frustrated, none of our kids will graduate HS with pull-ups or diapers!
I'm 99% sure that he is not ready for full on potty training in real underwear. He still has never pooped in the potty and he wakes up every morning with a completely full diaper (usually 1&2) and also wakes up from naps with a full diaper. And there's no way I'm doing the 3 day thing yet, he's just not ready.
We've just been encouraging him to trying sit on the potty on a regular basis and I think we've happened to catch him when he needed to pee. But earlier today he sat on the potty for like 5 minutes and nothing happened at all. Then he got up and peed on my bathroom rug by accident. So I don't think there's much control at all yet. And the one thing I have read is not to try to rush them into potty training. And truthfully, I'm in no hurry at all. Not that I love changing diapers, but it's not a big deal for me.
I was just thinking that Pull Ups would make it easier for us to get him on the potty faster and he would more easily be able to take them on and off himself.
If you want the 3-day pdf I have it in my email.
For us we just kept encouraging, occasionally trying to go to underwear for a morning but failing so back to diapers. She showed great interest and asked to sit on the potty all the time but never would actually pee in it. It was like she thought it was just a great place to sit for a while. Then when she was about 2.75 I took Thurs and Fri off while sending Molly to daycare (it was memorial day weekend too, so I had 5 days to get this done). We went underwear only and I really encouraged the drinking all morning (I could have used a few adult drinks myself). After a few small accidents (she was holding it) I finally got her to go on the potty while holding her teddy and hugging me. After that it was like a light bulb went off that it was nothing to be scared of and she rarely has had any accidents since. Right afterward I used the pull ups at night, naps and long car trips. It took a little while for me to OK with getting rid of them but she really had no accidents so finally we stopped using them.
Also she never seemed to wake up dry much before potty training but she did after. I think she would just wake up and pee in her diaper and I didn't realize she had been holding it all night. Also she had some really great control - the times when we would be giving a half-hearted try she would hold it from the time she woke up at 8 until naptime at 12 before going in her diaper then.
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Pull ups are def. easier as far as kiddo and/or you pulling them down quickly before getting on the potty.
This is just my opinion, but to me potty training is not like a light switch, where one day it's like "And We Shall Now Potty Train" and then there's no looking back. I see it as a process. After having the potty out for months for her to get used to, then doing a potty-training-boot-camp type process with DD #1, there were fits and starts for weeks after.
We have just started with DD #2. There are underwear days (when we have time and can focus on her) and pull up days (when we hope she will work on pulling their own pants down), and diaper days (long car trips, nighttime). It's all a work in progress. We haven't done the boot-camp thing yet, we are aiming for Memorial Day weekend for that. So she'll have had some practice before that, and we'll do a full court press after that. We've had the potty physically out for her to look at since before Christmas.