My 3 year old DD has NEVER worn a disposable diaper, but I'm considering buying her pull ups 
I think she's pretty close to potty learning, but of course I'm not sure. She goes through phases of using the potty often, but then she'll go a week or more without using it at all. I have a 4 week old, and we've had a difficult summer dealing with DD's behavior. I didn't want to let using the potty be one of the power struggles and an added stressor in my life or DD's life, so I haven't pushed it. A few times she's asked for panties, which I happily put on her, but generally she pees in them (or worse yet poops in them) within an hour or two of putting them on. I don't mean she doesn't quite make it to the toilet, I mean she just goes in them.
She's just done a HUGE growth spurt, and now her pocket diapers just don't fit her well. I can still snap them on her without hurting her, but they're really too small and leak quite often. We have some fitted and wool that fit better, but it's WAY too bulky to wear under pants, so it just works under skirts and dresses. She has lots of trouble getting the wool covers down or back up over the bulky fitted diaper too.
We're pretty tight on money right now. I've considered buying larger pocket diapers, or cloth trainers, but I fear that would cost lots of money that we really don't have, and I'm doubting the cloth trainers would solve the leaking issues.
We spent LOTS of time outside of the house, and it just doesn't work for her diapers to leak regularly. She's also in several 3-4 year old activities and seems to be the only child in diapers in those classes (and likely the youngest by several months). One is a gymnastics class that she really needs to wear pants for. I absolutely don't want to risk the possibility of a leaky diaper in the middle of one of these classes, mostly for her sake.
So, I'm considering buying pull ups to use when we're out of the house. I would continue to use fitteds with wool at night, and would likely aim for lots of bare bottom time at home during the day.
Anyone have a better idea? I really hate to be doing disposables, but I'm thinking in the end it might be the best decision here.
I think she's pretty close to potty learning, but of course I'm not sure. She goes through phases of using the potty often, but then she'll go a week or more without using it at all. I have a 4 week old, and we've had a difficult summer dealing with DD's behavior. I didn't want to let using the potty be one of the power struggles and an added stressor in my life or DD's life, so I haven't pushed it. A few times she's asked for panties, which I happily put on her, but generally she pees in them (or worse yet poops in them) within an hour or two of putting them on. I don't mean she doesn't quite make it to the toilet, I mean she just goes in them.She's just done a HUGE growth spurt, and now her pocket diapers just don't fit her well. I can still snap them on her without hurting her, but they're really too small and leak quite often. We have some fitted and wool that fit better, but it's WAY too bulky to wear under pants, so it just works under skirts and dresses. She has lots of trouble getting the wool covers down or back up over the bulky fitted diaper too.
We're pretty tight on money right now. I've considered buying larger pocket diapers, or cloth trainers, but I fear that would cost lots of money that we really don't have, and I'm doubting the cloth trainers would solve the leaking issues.
We spent LOTS of time outside of the house, and it just doesn't work for her diapers to leak regularly. She's also in several 3-4 year old activities and seems to be the only child in diapers in those classes (and likely the youngest by several months). One is a gymnastics class that she really needs to wear pants for. I absolutely don't want to risk the possibility of a leaky diaper in the middle of one of these classes, mostly for her sake.
So, I'm considering buying pull ups to use when we're out of the house. I would continue to use fitteds with wool at night, and would likely aim for lots of bare bottom time at home during the day.
Anyone have a better idea? I really hate to be doing disposables, but I'm thinking in the end it might be the best decision here.
For some reason while she wanted to be successful with pottying she jsut couldn't seem to make the big connection and a wet cloth diaper or peeing all over her naked self meant nothing other than it embarressed her 
. there was something about how the pull up would kinda clump as the gel beads got wet and expanded that was her clue opps better get to the bathroom and with in a few weeks she was finiAlly able to put the before feeling together and prevent all accidents. I say finially cause she was 4.5 years before we had even a small breakthrough. 
Weird I know. We used store brand type pull ups and snap EZ trainers (those she pretty much treated like a diaper) the pull ups help everything just fine as long as we changed often eventually we just used one at night and did the goodnights or the huggies neight weight ones with success. DD was at that time into a size of CDs that were hard to find without custom ordering and we couldn't do pockets or any poly fabrics. I did have a few special CDs make but it was expensive very expensive so pullups won.
