To not understand the point of 'pull-ups'

[Mosschopz]

If your DC is potty-training (as mine is), they wear pants. If they are not, they wear nappies. I don't get it, please enlighten me.

Soft play, long car journeys, someone else's house who will be annoyed if there's an accident. If, like my DD, they get it ina couple of weeks then you can probably do it without them by avoiding the above situations, but my DS took a year, so realistically, we sometimes needed them. You can also use them in the weeks running up to potty training if they are showing occasional interest and want to pull them up and down.

I had to start using pull ups with my DS before his 1st birthday because he wriggled so much when trying to change his nappy. He gave me enough time to clean up the old nappy contents but then crawled off before I could put the new one on. With him cruising around I could get him to stay still standing up long enough to put a pull up on though.

Pull-ups are just nappies that go on like pants, though. So I use them:

For DD1, who is not quite night trained, because if she needs a last wee before falling asleep she can pull them down and then back up again.
For DD2, who is 20 months old, not yet day trained, and hates hates HATES being lain on her back for a change but will happily step in and out of pant-shaped nappies.

They're hardly a controversial new item, right?

We use them as they are trained in the day but not at night. They don't want ' nappies' as say they are babies but still wet 50% mornings. ( they are 2 and 3). So pants in day, pull up at night

My toddler wore pull-ups at night until he was reliably dry. If he wore pants, I would have a wet bed to change if he had an accident. If he wore a nappy, he wouldn't be able to get it off himself if he got to the toilet before me. Pull ups were perfect.

But how are they different from the 'little walker' nappies (which I've used for exactly the same reasons as you Harry since DC was 18 months) except they come in a smaller pack and cost more :-/

Try getting a five or six year old to wear a nappy at night! It's tricky enough to get them to wear pull ups when they're embarrassed they are not dry at night, nappies- don't even go there!

Little walkers tear down the side, don't they? Pull ups don't.

I use them from the minute nappy changes are easier standing than lying. They're just nappies.

Little walkers seem to be exactly the same as pull ups (unless I'm missing something). I think it is a Huggies/Pampers branding thing. I luckily managed to buy 6 boxes of pull ups when they were reduced from £12 to £3 a box in Asda (thankyou MoneySavingExpert website). Nappies are just expensive full stop aren't they. Roll on potty training..... :-)

I don't think they are any different to the little walker nappies are they?

I used/use them because they made it tidier to toilet train. Accidents were no biggy for either of us.

DS2 still wears one at night.

I don't spend a lot of time worrying about potty training, I just do whatever is easiest.

So you don't understand the point of the very product you choose to use? YABU

Little Walker nappies are pull-ups, haven't they just rebranded them "step in" anyway?

They're just a different type of nappy. We use them on 15mo dc as its easier when on holiday/days out than finding somewhere to lay down.
I think they're more comfortable on long car journeys.

They are also useful if your DC is an awkward shape and doesn't fit into normal-sized nappies anymore.

DS is only just 3, and hasn't fitted into the biggest available size of "regular" nappies since his 2nd birthday! I've been (grudgingly) using pull-ups since then because it was the only option. He does like that he can get them on himself, too.

I tend to use them in Italy when we go out as they don't have baby change facilities where we are, not even a ledge in the (usually disgusting) loos. So I find it easier to quickly change him on my lap using a pull up. They rip at the sides so taking off not an issue. Ditto on planes, I'd rather change him on my lap than take him into a dirty cramped loo! That said, DS has hardly ever done a poo outside the house so it's just wee nappies for us.

They are for nappy companies to extend the use of their products,potty training takes waaaaaay longer if you use them.

That is the point.

I used them for a couple of weeks at the early stages of potty training as a "just in case" when we had to do hospital appointments, long car trips etc. Basically just until he got the hang of waiting until we could get to the toilet and was actually trained.

I'm with you OP on this one.

My DS1 is 9 now.

I can't remember when he potty trained or how long it took.

Because it doesn't really matter.

I agree with you op but can see why using them as an alternative to a nappy would be helpful. What I don't understand is using them for potty training... They just feel like a nappy. I think children need to feel an accident in pants to know they have done it and recognise the feeling so they know its coming.

I work in a 2 year old room and the children all toilet train at some point in their year with us. The ones who go straight to pants seem to manage it quicker. The pull up ones seem to drag out ages. They just use them as a nappy most of the time and carry on playing.

I think they are just marketed to parents to make them spend more money. The families I work with have very little money so we advise them to go straight to pants and not worry about accidents.

Well it does matter as the over use of nappies increases landfill.

What olivo said. My 5yo is not night trained but under no circumstances would she wear the same nappies as her baby sister. Hers are definitely grown up ones aka pull ups.

I used pull up nappies (not the potty training ones as you do get both types) with ds as he showed an early interest in using the toilet. He was day trained by the age of 2.