Wednesday, November 4, 2009

No more diapers in the day!

We're happy to announce that Hayley at 20 months is officially off diapers in the day (yes even at the babysitter's) since 2 weeks ago. Imagine how much we've saved since then on diapers.

We started training her on and off a couple of months back and took it seriously in September when she was around 18 - 19 months. Read here for the first post.

Now we still put diapers on her when we go out for longer than an hour (in case we can't find a toilet in time when she needs to do her business or we're too lazy to take her to one) as well as at night. The babysitter continued to put diapers on her when she napping in the day just in case. Since we stopped putting diapers on her, we've had no more problems with rashes too.

The only downside now is that she refused to do her business elsewhere other than in a potty or a toilet.

This happened to us yesterday after having our dinner outside. While walking back to the car she wanted to pee. Papa and I took her to the bushes nearby and asked her to pee. We are worried that she will not be able to hold her pee and wet the cushion as she was not wearing a diaper. She simply refused! In the end she did wet her pants slightly but continued to hold her pee until we got home around 10 mins later. This taught me a lesson that I need to remind myself to bring a spare diaper wherever I go just in case we can't find a toilet nearby :-)

3 comments:

Saw Leng, KOH said...

That's great. I would recommend you to buy panty diaper. Its more expensive than normal diaper but its very, very convenient and use them only during emergency.

Before sleeping, take her for her round of pee pee. Monitor if the diaper is wet. If its not wet after a week, try do without diaper. You can buy a protector and lay it in between matress and bed sheet.

You can read my post on this for our experience with Jaden.

Kiasu Mom said...

Hey thanks for the tips. I did buy the Mamy Poko pants, not sure if its the same as those panty diapers you're talking about.

As for bedtime, we definitely will take her to pee before putting her down. But after her last feed which is before bedtime, am sure her bladder would still get full and she will still need to go in the middle of the night.

And I have those protectors too. But I am not that stress about training her to be diaper free at night for now. Want to give myself a break for a while :-)

Busy Bee said...

Well done! I am one of those lazy mums who will be ok with her kids wearing nappies till they grow out of it ; ) Thankfully, mine uses cloth nappies, else the cost will be huge!