Potty training from cloth?

Zoe'sMama

DD's daycare has always been very good about her cloth dipes. But now that she's potty training at school, her teacher has requested pull-ups. I've shown them that her FBs can just stay snapped and pulled up and down, but their complaint is that they're too tight to get down quickly and she's had some mid-strip accidents (ew). I'm not a big fan of this, but her teacher (who has potty-trained WAAAAY more toddlers than I) says DD will train fast if we get them. 

I'm not a fan of buying these disposable things, but if it means we get out of dipes all together.... thoughts? Experiences? 

Dr.Loretta

Can you get cloth training pants?

flyer23

I had pretty much the exact same conversation with DD's preschool teachers. We decided to go straight to underwear, rather than do pullups.

But in the case of DD's preschool, it's a Montessori school, so they are HUGE on independence. That's why they wanted her in pullups, or underwear -- so that she could potty independently. NOT because they thought she'd train faster in pullups vs. diapers. In fact, I'm fairly certain that the opposite would have been true. It's pretty well-accepted that pullups hinder potty training. In most cases, they're more for parental (or teacher) convenience...

If your DD is at the point where she's indicating that she needs to go potty and is just having trouble getting her diaper down/off, then put her in underwear. If she's not at that point yet, leave her in (cloth) diapers until she is.

RadicalDreamer143

My friend used custom-made cloth trainers for her 14 month old daughter, they worked great (she did EC since the beginning, if people were surprised at the age).