cloth pull ups?

Starfish113

someone mentioned cloth pulls ups to me for potty training. does anyone use them or have experience with them? is it worth it to even get them, or do you go straight to underwear?

michavid

I'm not there yet, but a friend of mine did cloth trainers with both of her kids. I think it depends on the kid/how well potty training is going if you need them or not. I know that GroVia and Blueberry both make trainers.

 

Megan.10.06

I do.  But - they are accident catchers, not pull ups.  Pull ups are diapers, your kid can go in them several times without incident.  Cloth, you get once.  I went to just underwear, and used trainers when we had to leave the house. 

We love the blueberrys and superundies.  Superundies have a pocket you can stuff extra in, so I would also use a hemp.  I have the flip trainers as well, and while the shell is great, the inserts SUCK - they won't even hold one accident. 

That being said, we are back in diapers, having to put potty training on hold, he wasn't ready. 

flyer23

Hmmm, I just answered someone else's question on this yesterday, but now I can't find it.

Anyway, my general philosophy on cloth trainers is explained in this blog post:

https://rookiesewer.blogspot.com/2012/01/cloth-training-pants.html

In short, yes, I've used them. No, I don't think they're worth it.

DD went straight from diapers to underwear.

With DS, I sewed a stash of training pants for him, ONLY because his preschool requires pull-up style diapers. To update the blog post above with what's happened in the last few months: We were already working on PT'ing before he started preschool, through a combination of bare-bottomed/underwear-only time at home and diapers outside the house. A few weeks after he started, we switched him into underwear full-time at home. At first, he did really well with pottying, both at school and at home.

As time went on, we noticed that he was wetting his training pants more and more at school, and having more and more accidents at home. About two weeks ago, we switched him into underwear full-time at school as well, so now he's only in training pants/diapers for naps and nighttime. This has made a HUGE difference and he's doing really well on the potty now.

I absolutely think that the training pants were holding him back, because he knew he didn't have to stop what he was doing to potty when he was wearing them, and he forgot that he wasn't wearing them at home (hence the accidents).

His had a full layer of PUL, so they had diaper-like absorbency. That certainly didn't help. Partially-waterproof training pants, like the ones a pp mentioned, might be slightly better, if they're absorbent enough to prevent a puddle while still letting pants get wet. But still, I would STRICTLY limit their usage to outside the home, and moreover, to situations outside the home where an accident would truly be a disaster. Like, say, on an airplane. Not on a trip to the grocery store.

Honestly, it would probably be cheaper to get a pack of disposable pull-ups and use those for those rare occasions when you need them.

Starfish113

thanks ladies!

disposable pull-ups aren't an option... she is allergic to disposables (even the organic "chemical free" brands). maybe when the time comes i'll get a couple to have on hand, and try to go straight to underwear!

we're not there yet anyway, but daycare has been working on potty training, and i'm trying to do the same at home.

GypsyEsq

Blueberry trainers give you a chance to not have to change pants/shorts/etc...  And we have a few of those.  We also have some Super Skivvies which are more like underwear and which DD really took too.  I think for us there's been no real slow down in her potty learning due to their use, she knows that she's not supposed to go potty in them, and doesn't for the most part.  When she has an accident, and those situations where accidents occur, would happen regardless of what she was wearing.  We do switch them up though and typically only use training unders when she's out and about and use panties in the house.