Comments on: Cloth Diapers & Infant Potty Training

By: Double Dead Frog Blog » Cloth Diapering Cheaply

Double Dead Frog Blog » Cloth Diapering Cheaply — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:55:45 +0000

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By: Elimination Communication & Cloth Diapers « Journey To Crunchville

Elimination Communication & Cloth Diapers « Journey To Crunchville — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:21:52 +0000

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By: Jessica

Jessica — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:17:49 +0000

What a great post! I can’t wait to give EC a try. I am going to link this on my blog, ok?

By: Steinar

Steinar — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:01:08 +0000

Here cloth diapers are used with a sheet of rice paper. Just throw the paper along with the poop in the toilet and throw the diaper in a bin for washing later. Simpler than paper diapers, which often aren’t too easily emptied sufficiently to prevent bad trash bin smell. That’s the theory. But if many changes are like the explosion picture that you posted some months ago (Sigurd only produced liquid stuff until he was about 6 months old), disposables are better, since they absorb much better.

Therese is doing better again, but is back to work for a few months. We managed to find a kindergarten for Sigurd, on a farm not too far from home, and there have been no problems. Usually he’s too busy in the sandbox to notice that we leave him in the morning. They have 8 kids there and they are all about the same age.

By: Emeth Hesed

Emeth Hesed — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:09:37 +0000

Thanks for the link, Kristina! It does look very interesting. I’ve added it to my feed reader and am looking forward to reading it.

By: Emeth Hesed

Emeth Hesed — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:52:32 +0000

Oh, wow! Congrats on the potty and peeing!

I got some “You’re insane” treatment, too, but thankfully I knew I wasn’t and after a while I did find some wonderfully supportive people.

You know, when people tell you 12 months is too young, you should tell them most babies in the world are done or almost done potty training by then. LOL. You would probably enjoy that book. It tells you about how potty training is done all over the world.

My baby’s bladder doesn’t seem to be big enough to stay dry for 8 or 9 hours. If I get up a couple of times in the night and take her potty, she’ll pee and go right back to sleep. Argh. Maybe I’m just being lazy but it’s too much work. Isn’t it enough if I take her potty during the day? *wail*

By: Hana

Hana — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:01:34 +0000

I was inspired to go buy a Baby Bjorn potty chair at my local children’s store today. I put my baby on and she peed on the potty for the first time. My two-year-old loves it too. I used to use cloth diapers (when my older girl was a baby), but my husband made me stop. Difficult to keep up with washing them. I also didn’t have a lot of moral support from others; they thought I was crazy, misled, and so forth. I started training my first baby at 12 months and didn’t get a lot of friend-support in that either. People thought 12 months was too young. I used diaper service quality prefolds and separate wraps. It was cheaper then to do cloth, but now that we live in an apartment and can’t have our own washer/dryer, it could end up costing about the same or more. Not sure the neighbors would like our pooey diapers in the communal washing machines :)

Is your baby able to stay dry through the night?

By: Kristina

Kristina — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:56:57 +0000

Based on this post and previous ones, I think you’d really like the blog http://www.walkslowlylivewildly.com . It’s become one of my favorites to read- written by a very ‘crunchy’ Christian mom who advocates parenting like you do, green/simple living, etc. Some of the things she does/advocates are rather extreme for me, but her posts are always very interesting!

By: Emeth Hesed

Emeth Hesed — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:39:54 +0000

Hm. I’ve never seen Norwegian cloth diapers. That would be interesting to see how they are. Or maybe just Sigurd is a heavy-duty pooper. LOL.

Disposables are a lot more convenient, yeah…. But they scare me now. I used disposables on the plane on the way here because they absorb more and I hate changing diapers in the filthy airplane bathrooms.

How is Therese doing?

By: Steinar

Steinar — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:25:58 +0000

We bought cloth diapers for Sigurd, but I’m afraid they weren’t used very long. The disposable paper ones could absorb half a swimming pool and were just too good, while the cloth diapers overflowed. While these “explosions” are managable at home, paper diapers became too convenient for us when outdoors, and we want him to be a lot outdoors. By the time he had begun to produce solid poop which cloth diapers could handle, we were too accustomed to the convenience of disposables. Disposables are too cheap here. What we’ve spent on them for a year roughly equals what we need to spend on grocery weekly.