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In your experience do pullups help or hinder toilet training?

Do you find disposable training pants or 'pull ups' a useful tool for toilet training? Or do they confuse a child because they are absorbent and too similar to nappies?

Public Comments

1. I found them cheaper...and the kids can take them on and off easier. Makes for less trouble. Sucks when you need a potty and those little fingers cannot undo the velcro...
2. it makes it vastly easier to deal with a mess that you'd get without using one
3. I don't have kids, but have watched many a potty-training child and can safely say that having to deal with wet underpants is a far more convincing argument for using the toilet than pull-ups. Whenever I watch a kid in pull-ups, they usually just go in it like it's a diaper and then ask to be changed.
4. With my son, the whole time he was wearing pull-ups, we couldn't possibly get him potty trained. We had more success when he started putting on only regular underwear. He was constantly wet at first, but then he hated it so much that he started being aware of when he needed to go and was more motivated to go potty.
5. Pull ups come in handy as you introduce the potty, when travelling and at night. As the child improves phase them out. good luck
6. We started with pull ups about two weeks ago, she was doing really well for a week, going to the toilet every time she needed to, 1 packet of pull ups lasted almost a week and a half. In the last week she has started weeing in them like nappies and avoiding the toilet which is frustrating as she has gone through a pack of pull ups in only two days. I'm thinking of buying her undies now so if she wees she will start to understand that she needs to use the toilet. Hope my experience helps a little!
7. As far as the actual training, like when you are sitting at home, definitely use regular underpants so they can really feel the wetness. For a while though, before my daughter was trained well, whenever we would go to the store I would put her panties on and then a pull-up over it. That way she would feel if she wet herself, but it wouldn't be a huge mess while out at the store or in the car. She is now almost 3 and we still do use a pull-up at bedtime and sometimes for nap time.
8. They hinder toilet training. It takes away the moisture from the skin, not making the child aware that they have wet themselves. Where aas with undies, they feel it and know that they don't like the feeling.
9. I think Pull Ups are a great help to toilet training (potty training.) You can usually find good coupons for them as well. I'm not sure what nappies are?
10. They hinder..I have a 23 month old. She was potty trained at 18 months. When I first started I tried pull ups and she used them like a diaper. How will you teach her what she has done if you don't know it? After a hour she isn't going to remember when you say no pee pee in pants. I used underwear or even let her go naked until she got it. yes, there is some messes for a couple of weeks, but as soon as you catch them in the act, pick them up, take them to potty and explain why they are going. I would even take her right back to the mess while I was cleaning & say we do not pee pee in the floor, we go to the potty. I did love them at night.