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Just curious. I have six kids...and only my youngest two have used them. The 4 year old only used them at night...but my 2 1/2 year old is being a bugger to train! She has done GREAT this week, even staying dry all night last night...but that pull up sure is a safety net, let me tell you. They are SO expensive, though...and aren't they really a DIAPER?????
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I only used them when we left the house and at night...alot of time they could keep the same one for the next night because the never wet....but we live so far from any place that I didnt want the girls to have an accident....but I made it clear that they was a different panty for them and to still let me know if they had to potty....I even put a potty in my van for when the pullups came off totally....hr drive someplace is long ride for alittle one sometimes.
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Yep, they are expensive diapers. I never understood the purpose of them except to use at naptime and nighttime. We take them in case we have an accident while we are out - along with a change of clothes, but past that, it is underwear for my kids. JMO
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i use them and i agree that they are just a diaper in disguise. what i need to do is just put plain ole underwear on my boy and have him learn that way. i also need to put my butt in gear and concentrate more on potty training him.
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I can't stand pull-ups and I never used them. In the various playgroups we were involved in, every single little girl who had been diagnosed with a bladder infection also used pull-ups. I did old fashioned potty training and have never regretted it.
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I only use one for my son at night. He wears underwear at naptime and does just fine but over night is still a long time to not wet the bed. I don't believe in cutting off his fluid intake after dinner like some people I know. I just think that's mean. If I'm thirsty, I get a drink no matter what time it is and I don't want to deprive my son of that. When he sleeps through the night without wetting in his pull-up for a week, I'll get rid of them. Until then, its pull-ups or a heck of a lot of laundry. I choose the pull-ups.
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It is just my opinion, but I think kids potty train faster without pull ups. In the past 4 years, I have helped potty train 3 children, 2 girls and a boy. That would just wet the pull up like a diaper. We started with training pants first. They are thicker but the urine still runs throught them. We bought used training pants that why we started with them first. Then we switched to regular underwear. We used pull ups at night. Then gradually got rid of them. The boy is still in pull ups at night. He was 3 in September.
I didn't much like limiting drinking at night either, but I did it. I found water would satisfy the thrist after supper and did not make them as likely to wet at night like milk or juice.
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I never believed in pull ups. Did not use them at all for my first 6 kids. The seventh one, the daycare lady and I had been trying to get him to use the potty and he would not. She had some pull ups and tried one on him one day. Then (for some weird reason) he used the potty. So, we used them for him. Not for very long though, he went into underwear pretty quickly. He used them at night for quite awhile, though and is still going through that transition.
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I only used them (with my 1st 3) at night and if we are going out. Otherwise, when at home, we just use regular panties and clean up if needed. I did find it was best to buy the cheaper off brands. Most often they were the same, and my kids never wore them long enough to leak throough (if they were leaky). Target and Walgreens were my fav. ~ it helped to save $$ at that time.
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I am in the midst of training my almost 3 yr old boy. I use a regular diaper at night and nap time, big boy underwear during the day. Unless we are going out for awhile (church yesterday) They are just so expensive. I was able to train my oldest with just one box now any suggestions how to get the trainee to sit on the potty for poop??