My (my kid's) Potty Training Story
I havn't thought of teaching my kid to go potty before I found for some time that diapers were dry after nap and in the morning, too, sometimes. Then I realized my kid was physically ready to learn toileting skill.
"No more diapers for me" was introduced at the very beginning and was taken with pride. My kid started to like wearing underwear all the time. Can you imagine how much mess in our lives since then? Urine has been on my kid's long pants, socks, shoes, floor, carpet, furniture, matresses, car, and even high chair and car seat. So I bought training pants from known manufactures. Some needs plastic cover, some leaks, some is hard to pull down by a child, if not impossible. After all the mess and defect training pants I bought, my child finally started to tell me "I need to pee". But occasionally accidents occured, which I do not like. Since my kid had started to tell me "I need to pee", I reasoned I could use disposable pull ups to avoid messy urine.
At first, when accidents occured wearing disposable pull ups, my kid would feel her long pants and floor. Since they were dry, I could tell my kid was relieved to resume activity without any frustration or upsetting. After 2 weeks in disposable pull ups, my child stopped telling "I need to pee", was comfortably using disposable pull up as wearable potty and would protest to my prompting to go potty. Fortunately, that's not the end of story.
I got a problem and I got to find a solution - make my own potty training pants. I started with searches for waterproof fabrics and water absorbing materials, measuring my kid's leg and waist sizes and taking apart my kid's disposable pull up and studying it (I like how well it fits my kid, but I dislike the fact that it does not train. To my expereience, they are the same as disposable diapers as far as potty training is concerned.). After several trials and a couple months, the featured waterproof cloth potty training pants were born.
My kid has used the very first couple versions and the latest version of waterproof cloth potty training pants. When accidents happened, my kid did not make one spot of urine mess which was all in the training pants. I was so happy that I could do my job - deal with my kid's not going potty with a smile. After about 2 weeks using these waterproof cloth potty training pants, my kid regained the learned toileting skill. After this Thanksgiving party, my kid had none accident and I was told by my kid to stay out of bathroom, "I can do it myself, no mommy".
With the birth of these potty training pants, my past pain and hard work, your convenience! No prompting, no mess, but potty power soon!
I am selling these waterproof cloth potty training pants more to share something helpful with parents like me than to make money. Considering the materials and time used to make them, I am making no money. But your appreciation of my creation is important to me.
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