My Baby's Potty Training Story

Start from when? I can't keep up with the world. This is a parenting story written a long time ago. Would you mind I turn it in here? I bet you haven't read it yet.

I haven'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 non-functioning 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, one of a kind cloth potty training pants were born for my daughter.

The good news is my daughter would wear them. The perfect news is they are completely waterproof. As long as my daughter was wearing them, not one spot of urine outside the pants had been seen.

I was so pround of my work. I was so happy that I could do my job in time of accidents - reprimand my kid for not going potty with a smile. Such findings of my handmade waterproof pants also made me think why there are only malfunction training pants in market, especially leaking or too tight for the child to pull down and up? It came to me that my daughter's waterproof training pants were individually fitted. You know what? I may be able to offer my individually fitted waterproof training pants to other parents. After working, reworking, reworking, and still reworking on the overall pattern, I am offering them to any parents who want functioning waterproof cloth potty training pants to help themselves parenting and their kids learn without mess and stress.

And if you want to challenge my work and challenge yourself with product development, I am offering the pattern and tutorial for DIY soon. To tell the truth, I wish there had been another parent, not me, developed the same pants, and all I had to do is to pay. It's a lot work to be a SAHM. Who wants to get into the business of business?