Are cloth trainers worth the price?

[rocketgirl96]

I've CD'ed now for 20 months and we're starting the potty training process. the problem is that he doesn't tell me he has to go until he's already started peeing, so I'm wondering now if I should go with cloth trainers for a while but they are sooo expensive. Are there any I can buy that are good quality and absorbant without them being expensive. If I put him in cloth trainers all day then I'll probably need 12 or more of them so I don't have to wash them every day. I really don't want to use disposable pullups.

Thanks,
Christine

[GardenStream]

I bought 6 used off of diaperswappers. I think we used them for about 2 days. DS had a hard time understanding that they weren't diapers. I don't regret buying them, maybe DS2 will get the idea a little better. I got really sick of cleaning up accidents.

[ShyDaisi]

I put Micah in the Gerber undies. If you are really worried about him peeing through, you can get the plastic pants to go over. I didn't do that though. With the Gerber undies, you can use them for a long time as underwear, and the cost won't feel so great. I like that the extra padding keeps you from cleaning up puddles when there are accidents, but still feels wet to them. If you can, (I know I mentioned this in your other thread) let him go bare bottomed as much as you can...it will help him to realize when he needs to go. He may treat any cloth on his bottom (diapers, trainers, undies) as diapers -- which is probably why you don't know he is going until after he has started.

Good luck!

[rocketgirl96]

shydaisy -

I did let him go barebottomed some today, but he still didn't tell me he was going until after he had already started. Of course this is just the 1st day. Did you just buy the gerber training pants that you can find at Babies R Us or did you have to order them on the internet?

Thanks,
Christine

[ShyDaisi]

I just bought them in the store...you can get them at BRU, Target, or WalMart. Don't worry, it will get better as you go, and if it doesn't, you can always try again in a couple of weeks.

[rocketgirl96]

Isn't it bad to go back to diapers though? That's one reason why I thought I'd do trainers. I thought once you started there was no going back to the confusion it caused them. No you're too big for diapers - wait, no , go back to diapers, don't pee and poop in your pants - wait, you can pee and poop in your diapers again......Isn't that confusing for the child?

Thanks,
Christine

[sapphire_chan]

as he's 20 months the gerber ones should fit just fine. If you need waterproofness checkout sassycloth. Currently the cheapest source of good waterproof AIO-style trainers.

[justthinkn]

Gerbers work great with the mini-pee's, the ones where the kiddo realizes what's going on mid-stream and then gets to the potty. If it's full-out deluge, the pants will still get soaked. To me that wasn't a problem - we kept changes of pants and trainers and a wet bag with us, and it was still less laundry than cloth diapers

[kittykat2481]

We're exactly 1 week into potty training. We actually did disposable pullups for a while, and it was no different than a diaper to him. So last weekend we went to underwear cold turkey, and we found that he doesn't like the feeling of being wet, and he actually started using the potty (not just sitting on it like before). Now one week into it, he only had 1 miss yesterday, and a couple this evening that were related to tummy troubles. He is doing awesome. We have some of the gerber ones, but at 23 months, I find the 3t's (the largest size) to be too short in the rize for him, so we also bought some regular character underwear that he picked out. He loves them!

On the going barebottomoed comment... we tried that before too, and found that it didn't help much with him. When he pees it goes out into a puddle in the floor and doesn't really get him wet at all, so he either didn't notice or care. I think the technique might work better with girls.

Goodluck!

[ShyDaisi]

Originally Posted by kittykat2481

On the going barebottomoed comment... we tried that before too, and found that it didn't help much with him. When he pees it goes out into a puddle in the floor and doesn't really get him wet at all, so he either didn't notice or care. I think the technique might work better with girls.

Goodluck!

I am sure it is just as individualized as anything else, not necessarily divided for one gender or another. My son did well with being bare-bottomed, yet a friend of mine's daughter didn't. I was just offering an option -- something to think about and that worked for us.

[GardenStream]

Originally Posted by ShyDaisi

I am sure it is just as individualized as anything else, not necessarily divided for one gender or another. My son did well with being bare-bottomed, yet a friend of mine's daughter didn't. I was just offering an option -- something to think about and that worked for us.

Bare bottom was what worked best for my son as well, but he was also a couple months shy of 3 years old. I tried to do it at about 24 months, but I had a lot more interest than DS did. He decided that he wanted to use the potty exclusively at 33 months and that was it. We had a handful of pee accidents and about a month of pooping accidents

[rootzdawta]

Moved from Toddlers to Diapering.

[octobermom]

My DD had some genuine processing delays that hindered potty training so for us it was a super long process and cloth trainers saved us jsut about as much as using cloth diapers did. (our PT process started around 22 months and didn't completely end till she was 4.5 years).. We eventually (after wasting money on other things) invested in the iminse vimse bumpy trainers and just some nylon pull on pants if I needed them. We allowed that it prevented the floor floods (the gerbers totally didn't she'd pee straight through those and right to the floor) but it still had the natural conquence of wet clothing ect...

Deanna

[octobermom]

Originally Posted by atobols

Bare bottom was what worked best for my son as well, but he was also a couple months shy of 3 years old. I tried to do it at about 24 months, but I had a lot more interest than DS did. He decided that he wanted to use the potty exclusively at 33 months and that was it. We had a handful of pee accidents and about a month of pooping accidents

Yea for my processing delayed DD bare bottomed was a complete utter failure she'd jsut pee all over everything herself ectand never notice in the least at all ages actually even now at 7 years and 100% trained if it happened it still wont phase her.

Deanna

[sunshadow]

For my daughter, yes and no. She loved them and I think they motivated her, but when she started using the potty she would just often go if she had anything on. So, what worked the best was just being naked. But, once she got the potty down she would often hold her pee for a long time and sometimes have a tiny tiny whoops and for that the cloth trainers were good. The ones we got were just pretty much like underwear with an extra layer of bamboo in the crotch. She hasn't had any accidents, even tiny ones in a couple of months and she still uses the trainers like underwear since that' what they pretty much are.

[ryan'smom]

i bought a couple of trainers off of etsy from the seller QTBUNNS i think they range from $8-$10/pr......not a bad price compared to others...........