Toilet training part II

People often used to hold their small babies over a potty when I had my children in the 70 s. I didn’t but in those days they were usually dry by day before they were 2, my dd was 18 months and maybe a little longer til they were dry at night.

I had never heard of disposable nappies til later and they were much too expensive to buy so I carried on with my bucket and wooden spoon in the corner of the kitchen. Luckily not for too long.

Calendargirl

^toilet training to start at around 6 to 8 months^

‘Start’ being the operative word.

So, how would you ‘start’? I genuinely can’t imagine how. You can sit the child on a potty, but they are not really controlling the muscles used in elimination, are they? I’d imagine a reflex can be triggered by the sensation of sitting on the potty, rather than the child being in control of bladder or bowels.

Precisely Daddima, that’s exactly how it happened.

No one is suggesting a child that young has control of their bladder and bowels, but it saved lots of wet, or better still, dirty nappies, and surprisingly, by about two years of age, most children were out of nappies, and didn’t regress, so something was working.

Unlike the children starting school now still in nappies.

I know this is an old post but thought I'd reply, ive been looking after my grandson for a little while now due to family circumstances and never liked disposables and started using terry nappies on him ,never like the fact that all those paper nappies in land fill and feel terrys especially today are much better and nicer on a child's skin ,my grandson is much happier wearing his terry nappies and never had nappy rash

I agree, but it’s not just nappies. I have been reading about the environmental effect of fast fashion which end up on huge fabric mountains in the third world. Very worrying.

I've heard that aswell ,it's a big concern for the world
But if I had my way disposable nappies would be limited ,I know they have there place but terry nappies these days are much better for babies and toddlers, and obviously the environmental effect aswell ,they will last each child at least 3 years

I went to a WI talk years ago about the new style washable nappies, (after my babies were grown up. They had their cousin's terry squares.) We were told disposables would remain in landfill for five hundred years. If Queen Elizabeth the first had been in disposables they would still exist. I was horrified. I have stopped using daily pads for slightly iffy bladder. I made pads from towelling and flannel and stitched them in my knickers, work fine and go in the normal wash. Having solved that, and got the final grandchild in washable, my husband developed prostate cancer and the treatment he has had has left him incontinent. I can't see a way to get round that issue with washable but I'm open to suggestions.