My 20 month old is pretty much 'day trained', but I have been putting her in diapers for naps and bedtime, and when we have to leave the house. At home, she wears regular underwear when she's awake. I have noticed that she has been waking up still dry from her naps, and when we are out and about she has been asking to go potty. So I would like to find something more convenient to use than regular diapers. They are such a pain to use when she still has pants on! Lol. Also, I finally put her in a toddler bed, so I would like her to be able to take herself potty in the morning. (I still supervise, but I'm trying to get her to take herself more when she needs to go.) So would you recommend pull-ups or is there a better (or cheaper) alternative? Are they absorbent enough for overnight use? Thanks for any info! :)
I used to have my kids wear a pull up over their underpants when going out. If they had an accident, they still felt the wetness of the underwear, but I didn't have to worry about a mess.
Gerber training pants are pretty absorbant.. Check Target or Walmart. If she is waking up dry.. you might not need pullups. The pampers pullups (easy ups) are way better than the huggies pull ups.
my son was dry at 3. my daughter is still in a pull up at night at 6, good luck.
For errands and whatnot, we used a piddle pad that's designed for the car seat. I do remember it being a big deal (to me) the first few times she rode around in the car wearing panties, but it went fine.
For sleeping, we have a few waterproof pads to switch out on her bed. She woke up if she had to go, or she woke up if she had an accident. Also scary (for me), but it worked out great.
In my experience, Pull Ups must have felt just like a diaper (go figure, ha!), so she treated them as such. We only used a few that someone passed along to us. It seemed like spending more money for something a diaper would also accomplish, and it didn't make her feel more or less like a big girl to use one or the other.
Pull ups are the way to go, in my opinion. They're quite a bit more expensive than diapers... but worth the convenience for bedtime. They are definitely fine for overnight. One of my 4.5 year old twins (who has been day and nap trained for two and a half years) still wears them at night - we've had maybe two leaks ever.
We use pullups at night. They are the ones with the Disney Princesses on them and are for nighttime use. They work very well. Our 8 yr. old wears them and never leaks. The boy wears the ones with Toy Story characters on them and they work even better in my opinion. The boys actually seem to be slightly larger so maybe they hold a bit more.
Pull ups are not more expensive than doing other stuff. They keep the bed dry, they allow the child to sleep all night and not get up 2-3 times to change the sheets and their clothes. They don't have to take numerous showers to rinse the pee off.
If you think about you, you are worth something, your time is worth something. You are needed to do other things for your family except wash pee sheets every day. So in my opinion wearing pull ups is better for that reason alone and laundry is my favorite chore. I love sorting, washing, hanging, ironing, etc......
If you don't use something the sheets get soaked, the blankets, the bedspread, the mattress, the pillow, everything gets saturated and the whole house takes on that smell.
The extra cost of the water, the laundry soap, the fabric softener, the dryer sheets, the natural gas or electricity to run the dryer, etc...those things add up.
So, if you are going to pay $XXX.XX for either laundry washing tons of extra stuff each and every day for the next year or so OR you can buy a box of Pull ups for $15 at Walmart, maybe 1 1/2 boxes per month. It is worth it to me to have my time for something else besides washing the life out of my bed linens.
For my boys I used pull ups at bed time. I would let them stay in undies when we left the house, and would bring pull ups and a pair of dry pants. If they did not have an accident than great, but if they did we had the pants and than used pullups till we got home to keep those pants dry.
Do a diaper, not Pull-ups.
I BOUGHT into that marketing. WASTE of money and it didn't help him potty train any faster. I think it actually worked AGAINST us.
My 4 year old still wets the bed but is potty trained (FINALLY!!!) and I have found pullups to not be so absorbent. However, the huggies little movers are GREAT!!! She's 41lbs and fits in the size 5 but can easily pull them off for night time potty breaks and it's super absobent for nighttime use.
We used pull-ups during trips away from home and diapers at night until my son was reliably potty-trained. He wasn't getting up at night to go potty yet, so we didn't really need pull-ups when he was sleeping. We used name-brand pull-ups as well as store-brand.... we were equally satisfied with both.
Please do not put your child in pull-ups. Get some gerber trainers. They catch most of the pee, so if you are out in public, pee shouldn't end up on the floor. Piddle pads are great for car seats. Neither of my kids ended up needing ours. They both left the house in trainers at 18 and 20 months.
Just do it.
In terms of night time, do yourself a favor. Buy two cloth diapers. She will night train really fast. In fact, I move my kids from disposable diapers to cloth when they move into undies during the day. They usually night train within a week.
