Training Pants / Pull-Ups

smb+jab · January 2015

So DS is moving up rooms at daycare / school and one of the requirements of his new room is for him to bring in a pack of pull up as they are "focusing on potty training" (more so than they have been in his previous classroom.

I was completely against buy / having him wear pull ups or training pants (or whatever you call them) so I don't know what is a good brand to buy is - any advice? In the past we have been brand loyal to pampers...

Secondly since i know many of you have potty trained little ones or are in the process, did you use pulls up and what are your thoughts? I was initially against it as i wanted him to go straight to underwear, which is what i have him in at home and when he is with me. At school he is still in a diaper, as well as for naps and bedtime. I suppose I didn't want him to think he had the option of something that was sort of like underwear that he could pull up and down that he could pee in...

BeebopandBuddy · January 2015

I actually like the Target brand pull-ups for early PTing because they have tabs on the side rather than the Pampers or Huggies brands that you have to rip open. It's just a little easier when you know you will likely have to change them. Ethan is actually wearing the Huggies EasyUp diapers now because they hold what a diaper holds, but pull on and off. Those are good too.

Once we started PTing, we went with underpants during awake time and pull-ups for nap/night. I wanted everything to be like underwear but I knew she wasn't ready for sleep training. Maya trained at home with a nanny, so it was easier for her or us to change her if she had an accident. Ethan is training at the DC and they also requested pull-ups because there are more kids and it just takes a lot more time/effort to deal with accidents all day in underwear. I am going with it since I really don't think he's ready to PT anyway. I'm happy for them to practice with him.

If you think he is really ready to be in underwear without accidents much of the time, then push for that. If it's really just a casual, introductory thing, then I wouldn't worry about it too much.

smb+jab · January 2015

He's definitely ready but he's stubborn. if he doesn't want to go that day, he wont. So we will have days where he will stop playing and run to the bathroom himself or get one of us and be dry (not even a drop in his undies) all day. Other times he poops in the corner in his underpants. So it leads me to believe we will need to have him in something (diaper or a pull up - if needed) at least for a bit longer until he is 100% committed.

2 year old's are feisty little ones!

AKB090609 · January 2015

I second the target brand if your going to do pull ups, we love our 'training' underwear by bummis, they are a bit thicker and more ubsorbant so that's what we use outside the house, even though DD is potty trained I like that they are a bit thicker and will catch accidents if they happen.

BeebopandBuddy · January 2015

smb+jab said:

He's definitely ready but he's stubborn. if he doesn't want to go that day, he wont. So we will have days where he will stop playing and run to the bathroom himself or get one of us and be dry (not even a drop in his undies) all day. Other times he poops in the corner in his underpants. So it leads me to believe we will need to have him in something (diaper or a pull up - if needed) at least for a bit longer until he is 100% committed.

2 year old's are feisty little ones!

Maya was like that when we tried the first time. I knew she could do it, but she refused a lot. We tried when she was two, then stopped and restarted when she was 2.5. She was ready then. He may just need a little longer to get used to the idea.

hmp1 · January 2015

I switched both boys to pull ups around their second birthday because diaper changes were getting harder and they start doing potty time with each diaper change at school every two hours. James, my oldest, does not go pee every two hours so having him in a pull up was saving me since they will not reuse a diaper but will allow a pull up to be used until wet. I never once called his pull up underwear, made it clear that those are two different things. When I potty trained James, because we made it a slow transition of introducing the potty with every change the actual potty training process was switching to underwear. I did cheat by using cotton trainers as underwear until he out grew them. He trained really easily at home but had issues at school for about a month. Having Bummis trainers as his underwear was really helpful because he could recognize that he peed his underwear but his pants stayed dry so I didn't have to keep bringing back up outfits. Once he peed while wearing regular undies and got his shoes wet, his shoes. So glad that the Bummis kept things in place. He wore them as underwear well after he was completely trustworthy because they are expensive.

I will do the same with Leo. He is in pull ups now and we talk a lot about pee/poop going in the potty. When we are ready to train, that means underwear (Bummis) everyday no exception and a pull up for sleeping and we will switch the focus from pee/poop in the potty to keeping our underwear clean/dry.

watercolor5 · January 2015

I prefer Huggies Pull-ups over Pampers Easy ups. They also seem to have coupons with higher discounts on coupons.com. We do a mix of pull ups, training undies and regular undies. She has the fewest accidents in regular undies for sure. We use pull ups when we're in public, shopping, church, at a babysitter's, etc and also for naps and bed. She's still waiting until her naptime pull-up to do her daily poop. I'd just use regular undies and pullups, except the training undies are easier to find in smaller sizes, and tend to just fit her better.

Now that she's been working on PT for a while, she tends to hold it for longer and then when she goes, she goes a LOT. Which is great when she's on the potty because she's not spending half the day sitting on the toilet, but when she does wet training pants, she wets them through to her regular pants and both the undies and pants need a change. This is the main reason she still wears pullups when we're out in public.

hmp1 · January 2015

I tried out a bunch of different trainers and found two that worked for the purpose I wanted - hold a full pee but still have him recognize that he was wet and needed to stop peeing/be changed right way. Bummis was the best followed by Blueberry. I bought more of the Blueberry trainers because they had cuter prints

I didn't buy seconds of any of the others I tried (HA, Gerber, Carters, Kushies...). They were either not holding what I wanted, too much like a diaper, or too crunchy (like a plastic bag).

AlinnJo · January 2015

We skipped pull ups. We went right to underwear. I SAH so that can make a difference. The only time I bought them was for our car ride to Florida. We bought Huggies and they worked fine for us. We will not buy pampers anymore. Last time she wore them they burned her skin and it was awfuI. Now that we are home she's back to underwear. She told me she didn't want to wear diapers and we have totally stopped. The first few days were the tough. We didn't go anywhere. Now it is rare she has an accident and she goes much longer between bathroom breaks. She still wears a diaper at night time.

bosha711 · January 2015

We used Huggies pull-ups with ds for daycare, for home naps & for whenever we went out. I was happy with them. I liked that they had a color change pattern on them that was a visual indicator for him that he was wet. We made it a goal for him to keep the design blue (dry).

They also have adjustable tabs for putting them on & off.

eshee8198 · January 2015

We went straight from diapers to underwear. I did get a cloth pull up (I think it might have been Bummis) as a "surprise" gift in a toothbrush/toothpaste pack of all things, and I liked it, but we just never ended up using it. We did diaper for naps, but after a few days of waking up dry, we went cold turkey with underwear. Even though we didn't use it, I did like the way the cloth fit, and I feel like it might be more effective, since it helps them feel that they're wet? Good luck! Like they say, they probably won't still be in diapers by the time they hit high school, so it will all work out!

Holly_1007 · January 2015

Apparently Colbys daycare has been putting him on the toilet at diaper changes. It was never a discussion that I had with them so I was a little taken aback. His class has a wide range of ages (14 months to almost 3 years) so I don't think it is something that is standard. I'm really not ready to PT unless he pushed it, which he isn't. We are having discussions about the potty and other people using the potty, but I'm not ready for full time. Which stinks because I trained keagan so young which really worked out for us. I really like the idea of cloth trainers and might look into this a bit more! I never used pull ups with keagan, we went straight to undies.

smb+jab · January 2015

Thanks for all the suggestions ladies! I picked up a small pack of the ones suggested last night at Target. I am sure i looked like an idiot in the diaper aisle staring dumbfounded at all the pull-ups!

I am going to see what ones fit him best and go from there. Maybe this won't be such a bad thing after all

or maybe he will finally decide he wants to be a big boy and pee in the potty - who knows my child has developed his own agenda!

and i think his school/daycare might be specifying the huggies ones as they mentioned pull-ups with easy open tabs and they seem to be the only brand that offers that.

tinyhumantoe · January 2015

I was 'against' them too, until I did my attempt at potty training lol. On weekends she wants to 'try' every 5 minutes. I cleaned up a gazillion underwear shits and pees and decided I'd cross over to the dark side since she can pull them up herself.

elizabethwig · January 2015

my girl is in pull-ups now. we did pampers diapers but prefer the huggies pull-ups b/c they have the sides that open. i hadn't really planned to use them, but found them on super sale when we needed diapers. i keep finding them on sale cheaper than diapers and she's totally into them, so it looks like we've converted. she seems to notice much faster when she's peed or pooped in them. we're only just talking a lot about PTing now, and this is helping her with the concept.

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