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Crotchless baby pants

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Um, so one of my friends/former co-workers is expecting her first baby. Someone gave her a cute baby onesie as a gift during her last week at work. She was sort confused/smiled and said how odd she thought it was that the baby clothes in the US are different. She mentioned that baby clothes in China have the crotch open. We all looked at each other baffled at what she meant and just figured it was lost in translation.

Well today we were talking about it and decided to google it and figure out what on earth she meant. We were totally not expecting what we found. Even the Japanese girl in my office had never heard of it. On one hand it is eco-friendly, on the other I can only imagine how many onesies they have to wash.....

https://www.gadling.com/2007/05/18/a-canadian-in-beijing-naked-baby-bums-everywhere/

 

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  • kat.in.the.hatkat.in.the.hat
    Yeah Josh tells me all about seeing this from his time in China.  When you're poor and can't afford diapers, you do what you have to do !
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  • KK06KK06 member

    After seeing this I did a little more reading/ googling and learned about Elimination Communication (EC). It is really fascinating! I had no idea you could potty train so early.

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  • DomerJenCDomerJenC member

    I don't think diapers are a very widely used product world-wide... If you think about it, if you live in a place not covered in carpet, and it's the social/cultural norm, it'd be silly to do all that work washing soiled clothing over and over rather than letting kids go pee in the grass (or on a dirt floor, etc...).  From my understanding of it, mothers tend to learn their children's queues pretty quickly to avoid getting peed on all the time.

    I thought the canadian in china blog was funny, since dogs and other animals urinate and deficate all over the place here - it's not really that different than sitting in the grass in the US.

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  • NDwife07NDwife07

    I had never seen that before - the pictures make it seem so odd! But, you're right - totally makes sense. I've definitely heard of elimination communication before but never imagined baby clothes with that feature.

    I'm hoping to learn my baby's cues like that, too, but not in quite that way. Maybe if I were SAH, but with daycare I just feel like it would be a huge burder to try to potty learn that way. Interesting, though!

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  • kat.in.the.hatkat.in.the.hat

    In Thailand, especially outside of Bangkok, it was the norm to see kids running around in nothing but a shirt.

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  • critterchikcritterchik
    This is fascinating to me. Just so different. But I suppose it does make sense. I just can't imagine doing it that way. But I suppose it's because we've always been taught its unacceptable to pee in the street. lol
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  • kat.in.the.hatkat.in.the.hat

    But I suppose it's because we've always been taught its unacceptable to pee in the street. lol 

    Unless it's your husband taking the dog(s) out to pee first thing in the morning.  I bet they've all peed in the backyard more than once (the husbands as well as the dogs.)

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