Basic Truths of Parenthood: Potty Training
Abby is almost entirely trained. Rebecca can now almost make it through the day without disaster. It's a bit of a shock.
They still need diapers at night, mind you, but things are much better than they were.
Still, I can almost imagine a point in my life in which diapers will be a memory--as will their exhorbitant cost. One thing that has particularly annoyed me for the past 3 years is that we cannot use cheap diapers. Our kids just end up getting rashes. Thus we basically had to buy name brands. I make no effort to do that in normal life, but it is particularly annoying to do that when the ultimate destiny of the object in question is to be filled with nastiness and thrown away.
I'm beginning to wonder if using pull-ups (which are supposedly for kids doing potty training) actually slows potty training down. Though thinner than diapers, they are absorbant (and more expensive than diapers). We used pull-ups on Abby for months after she showed signs that she might be able to use toilet. She did not improve at all.
By contrast, after just a few weekends of wearing underwear (which does not absorb much of anything) and Abby was using the toilet regularly. Rebecca (16 months younger) began to make much more use of the toilet once we did the same thing with her.
It could be just coincidence, but at the moment, I'm feeling like pull-ups are a total scam.