to think about taking my un-potty-trained daughter out of swimming nappies?

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Teeny tiny problem I know but I know I'll get an honest response on here!

DD is 2.9 and a potty-training-resister, she is still in nappies day and night but has control, knows when she wants to wee/poo and can hold it in (for hours if needed, rather than do it on the dreaded potty.........)

We go swimming once a week and I still put her in swimming nappies - she has never (not even as a baby) poo'ed in one and needless to say if I ever caught her needed a poo I'd take her straight out, nappy or not!

I was wondering whether I could think about leaving a nappy off her to swim, she doesn't tend to poo at that time of day.

Do swimming nappies magically so something to wee? I don't imagine they do! And DD, if she needs a wee when she is in the bath, she will tell me and get out.

WIBU just to pop a cossie on her and keep an eye on her for the session?

Sorry for the number of times I've used the word 'poo' in this thread lol!

Sorry, I don't understand this thread.

Why do you want to start leaving her nappies off? What's the actual benefit?

If she won't poo on a toilet or a potty then presumably she poos in her nappies. SO why would you decide not to put her in a nappy when not swimming?

It's a bit like posting "shall I leave a nappy off my non-toilet trained DD on the bus". Er, no, why would you?

I would just tell her that swimming is for the big girls who use the loo, not for the little ones who wear nappies and not take her until she sorts herself out!

This is probably irrelevant now, but I never put any of my children in swimming pants things (didn't have them for the older ones anyway) and I NEVER had a swimming pool poo incident. And we went swimming a lot (it was a very cheap day out for me and the kids when exh was working). Right from when they had their first set of jabs, so quite young.

As a matter of fact, I didn't even buy cossies until they were out of the baby vest things with the poppers underneath - they just wore them in the pool.

I don't remember ever seeing babies in terry nappies in swimming pools when I was a child, ZonkedOut, surely they'd be very heavy once sopping wet?

I do remember seeing plenty of babies in swimming costumes/vests/little pants/naked though.

I suspect a combination of Elf&Safety and disposables manufacturers' clever marketing have created the idea that 'oh noes, a baby in the pool with no nappy on!'

DON'T DO IT!

Learn from my experience: I thought I'd save the environment and my purse and took my Dtriplets to the pool in their normal pants.

After a lot of fun playing around I start seeing little malteser shapes floating around them. WHilst turning my attention to DD1 and DD3, DD2 had done one of her rabbit-like pellet poos.

There were about a million of them and while I was trying to catch them all with a sieve the hotel manager had kindly given me, they were disintegrating and sinking to the bottom of the pool.

Thankfully there were no other guests in or around the pool!

I'm guessing the last poster didn't have peas that night from the hotel restaurant

Not really any help, but swim nappies aren't designed to contain wee, just poo (or solids as the more delicate Water Babies lady put it!). Our 6 month old is starting swimming next month and has to wear a swim nappy and a waterproof cover. I wasn't brave enough to ask if they contain runny bf poo, but as its going to be father and son bonding time it will be DH embarrassed and not me!

And poo poo poo just for good measure!

I used to be an EHO. if someone poos in the pool then there are procedures including closing the pool (depending on the incident, type of poo) Why? because poo can sometimes contain infectious elements for example if you had been abroad and daughter pooed due to an infection. If you are sure that she knows what she is doing then you have to ask why she won't use the potty. perhaps try the toilet with a step up and one of those fit in seats? I always found a bribe helped as in "you can have a thomas the tank engine chocolate when you have done your wee/poo in the loo".