No nappies!!! Listen to radio 4

starlite_2

http://www.natural-wisdom.com/

this site has loads of information on raising a baby nappy free...i find it very strange and i guess you are right, its only for people with a lot of time on their hands! i am personally going to try cloth nappies...at least for a while!

FranDan

Remember visiting my husbands grandmother with my first baby just 6wks old. I was lectured on how I should be potty training already, and how she trained her son to wee down the drain in the garden....!!! eeeeeewwwwwwwwwwhhhhhhhhh!!

I'm now on my thrid using washables.

jellyhead

i've got washables ready and washed for this baby, i couldn't imagine not using anything ...

Ticklemouse

I read about noticing when baby needed to wee etc from birth, before DS2 was born. As we were moving just after he was born, didn't have time anyway.

However, he's 3 next month and can I get him out of nappies? He's never wee'd on the potty, in fact if I try to get him just to sit on it, he MAY sit on it for about 5 seconds, then says 'no thanks mummy' and takes it back to the toilet. I'm not pushing him or making an issue out of it, we chat about it and he knows everyone else 'puts' their wee and 'dirty' in the toilet, he just won't try it. I knew about the cheapo nappy trick and as we're at home this morning, I have him in underpants and tracky bottoms just so that he'll get used to wetting himself! I'm hoping that will do the trick, but TBH, he's not bothered. His brother was dry day and night at just over 2 - I know not to compare but it's getting rather frustrating now - as well as expensive. Only had washables when he was a baby.

Any tips I haven't thought of yet?

Poppy9

I suppose you have tried bribery and corruption!! Tell him he can't start school until he dry or pretend you can't get nappies to fit him as he is too big. Try scrounging a smaller nappy off a friend and attempt to get it around him.

Good luck

jellyhead

my son was showing no signs of potty/toilet training at his third birthday either, although he knew other children were doing it. it took another 4 months after his birthday, one day he could just do it. with some children the sensations don't happen until later than average, and even if they can feel when they've wet themselves they might not be able to feel before they do it that it's about to happen, if you see what i mean. night-time dryness varies too, despite waiting until after 3 to be dry during the day he managed night-time at the same time whereas lots of children we knew who were dry at 2 were still in nappies or wetting the bed at night.

does he have to go to nursery or anything yet? if not then maybe you could give him another couple of months, but the cheap nappy trick or letting him feel that he's wet his clothes may well do the trick :-)

Spendless

Ticklemouse wrote:

I read about noticing when baby needed to wee etc from birth, before DS2 was born. As we were moving just after he was born, didn't have time anyway.

However, he's 3 next month and can I get him out of nappies? He's never wee'd on the potty, in fact if I try to get him just to sit on it, he MAY sit on it for about 5 seconds, then says 'no thanks mummy' and takes it back to the toilet. I'm not pushing him or making an issue out of it, we chat about it and he knows everyone else 'puts' their wee and 'dirty' in the toilet, he just won't try it. I knew about the cheapo nappy trick and as we're at home this morning, I have him in underpants and tracky bottoms just so that he'll get used to wetting himself! I'm hoping that will do the trick, but TBH, he's not bothered. His brother was dry day and night at just over 2 - I know not to compare but it's getting rather frustrating now - as well as expensive. Only had washables when he was a baby.

Any tips I haven't thought of yet?

TM - My sister has twins a boy and a girl. Neice didn't come out of nappies till 3 years 3 months. Nephew was 3 years 10 months.

Does he not want to copy his older brother?

I am currently going thru problems with this one as 2 year old daughter is showing signs that she is ready to be potty trained, but is convinced she can do a wee in the same position that her older brother can!

culpepper

some kids are embarassed to use a potty. They dont see everyone else using one so it seems freeky.
We had one of those clip on toilet seats for our 2 and a step-up.
We even took them with us when visiting.

Sarahsaver

with my boys, running around in the summer with no pants and trousers on whilst we were at home did the trick.

Ticklemouse

Well, I tried putting him in undies again yesterday whilst at home - no trousers. He came running into his bedroo asking for pants, so I asked him if he wanted to wee/use potty/toilet. He said no and put a pair of trackies on and went back to PC (he's a demon on the cbeebies website) A couple of minutes later, he came out to say he was wet!! He knew he wanted to wee, but associated trousers with soaking it up. I put him in cheapo nappy when he went out - he doesn't care what they feel like. After 3 hours his trousers were wet and half way up his vest too!

He goes to pre-school, but they don't have to be potty trained. He watches us, his brother, his peers use the loo. I have steps, clip on seats, potties of different colours etc etc. We have books about potty training too. He obviously knows when he needs to go, I just haven't made that first step into weeing somewhere he should instead of wetting himself. It will come, I know, so will just keep him in undies at home and change his pants a lot until he gets fed up of it. Roll on summer, no clothes and peeing in the flowerbeds