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.

I can see how they would delay training if used all day every day, and don't personally see the point in that but I think for occasional use in the early days then they are handy and of course for night time after a while too.

They are a brilliant marketing ploy to make us think they are a necessary stage in moving from new born nappies through to pants. Although they certainly have uses, I'm in the "wear pants or wear a nappy" camp - cost and landfill being two good reasons why.

As others have said they are brilliant for older children who aren't yet dry at night.

i don't use them for potty training but I do use them at night.

My brother had accidents at night for years and my Mum wishes that pull ups were invented them!

In developing or poorer countries where disposable nappies would be an unaffordable luxury, children are potty trained much earlier than in the west. Because the faff and hard work of boiling terry nappies means mothers put a little more urgency into getting their children into pants and using the toilet. Similarly older women in the west will remember the horror of nappy buckets, boiling the terries, and so on and will note that today's children take a lot longer to potty train, because disposable ones are so easy that it's not such a big deal. If you have children who are now in their 20s, then all those disposable nappies you used on them are still in landfill, undegraded.

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!

^ That!!

My DS is going to be 7 in a couple of weeks, he still wets at night. He would not wear nappies. He will wear 'night pants' known to most people as pull ups.

I did not use them for potty training, for that they would be counter productive. I will soon be putting pants on under the pull ups, so my DS get a 'wet' feeling without soaking my his bed.

So ds2 can get up by himself at 5am for a wee, without me having to get out of bed

Reg I also have a theory that modern nappies make pting slower because the child hasn't had so much opportunity to learn the connection between the sensation of weeing and being wet iyswim? Just my observation.

Never used them for potty training except for unavoidable long car journeys in the very very early days.

But as others have said, very useful for older children who aren't dry at night. And very very useful for toddlers who refuse point blank to lie down to have their nappy changed

I found pull ups great when dds got older easier than them wriggling about with a proper nappy
When potty training used them too