Nursery insisting on pullups for DS (2), why?

[cockles]

Ds (just 2) has just gone into next room at nursery and they insist he is to wear pullups. They don't want to potty train yet - nor do I, he def isn't ready - but they say this is their policy for all over2s. Forgot to ask why, and I am total novice, but I have an idea pullups are confusing (and expensive) Has anyone else experienced this? do they just want to get them all pulling down their trousers? won't it make him think it's like pants, but ok to wee in, hence confusing?

Are they providing the pull-ups?
If so let them get on with it. If not tell them you will choose the nappy that you provide for him (thank you very much).

If you don't start potty training at the same time then there will be no confusion IME. I used pull ups with DD from about 16 months as DD seemed to get on with them better than other nappies. She, and us, treated them as nappies not as pants.

When we potty trained at 2yo I put her straight into proper pants, so this avoided aby confusion.

However I don't understand the nursery policy. Have they said why this is the policy. As you say Pull Ups are more expensive - I would question the reasoning behind pull ups before going along with it.

it is your parental choice when you decide to use pull ups, should not arbitrarily be decided and imposed by nursery - talk to manager.

my wee 'un at nursery NO such rules there most unreasonable of them

thinks it outragouse

do they mean actual huggies pull ups

OR any form of 'pant syle nappy / training pant' thing?

If huggies pull ups then i would be telling them exactly what i thought of the big brand kimberly clark and how i wouldnt purchase anything from them EVER

If they just want a pant style nappy, then i would tell them that no, your child is in a nappy and you will choose the style. (when my charge is in pamapers easy up pants (ie a pant syle nappy, which he goes into during lunch time nap cause he removes a conventional style nappy, and he does a poo it almost always leaks out so thats a good enough arguement IMO)

If they want any training pant (ie training pants such as 'pampers feel and learn', 'huggies pul'l ups, 'own brand training pants' (NOT pant style nappies, there IS a difference) i would tell them whats the point in putting child in training pants when not potty training.

I HATE 'disposable training pants' with a passion and wouldnt let anyone dictate what my child wore!

V helpful thank you! He is in cloth atm but they 'don't have facilities' in this bit to do that - which I can understand - so I'm already going over to disps, grr. I suspect they want the littlies to be able to pull down their pants and imitate the biggies who are going on the toilet, but I will ask properly.
Um, nannyL, what is the diff between pant style nappies/own brand training pants, please? Thanks!

What facilties do they need to be able to change cloth nappies that they wouldn't have? Presumably children in disposable nappies/pull ups still need changing?

I work in a nursery which is part of a school - we take children from 2 years. The only thing I can think of, which you have already mentioned cockles, is that going to the loo is like an outing for the children - I will normally take 4 at a time. If a child still in nappies wants to come along for a nose, that's fine, and if they want to go for a wee, also fine. If they are still in a traditional type disposable nappy, it makes things harder if you are trying to untape it and most likely unfasten and refasten the popper vest they are wearing. It just gets a bit complicated if you are trying to deal with three other two year olds who keep haring off at the same time. Having said that we do not stipulate that a child should wear pull-ups, but as you already suspect, that could well be the reason behind it.

If you do decide to use pull-ups Lidl do their own brand which we've found to be excellent (DS had them for nights before he was dry)

I thought they were NOT allowed to refuse your dc to wear cloth nappies as it is discrimination? I'm sure on one of the cloth nappy sites (if not here) you will find someone who can back up that with legislation. YOu could move over to pull up style cloth nappies???

pant style nappies are nappies designed to hold as much as nappies such as pampers easy up pants, or tesco do there own brand pant style nappy.

own brand style trianing pants are own branded and are the own brand equivelnet of pampers feel n learn / huggies pull-ups. Training pants are NOT nappies and not designed to absorb as much either, just cope with an accident.

Tesco (for eg) do their own brand training pant as well, which are NOT the same as there own brand pant style nappies

hope that helps

I'm with Idris.
What facilities do they need for cloth nappies?
I've never heard of a nursery being so presciptive.

i would imagine it would be EASIER for them to have facilites to change cloth nappies (which is surely the same as wet under wear / trousers; ie stick the wet nappyin a bag as you would wet clothes for parents to deal with) rather than wet disposable nappies for which they HAVE to have a special bin, as they cant just stick them in with ordinary waste

do tesco do their own pant style nappies? i've used boots ones before but didn't know of any other own brands that did them.

I THINK IT COULD BE SO THAT HE CAN PULL THEM UP AND DOWN.PERHAPS IF HE SEES OTHER CHILDREN IF HE WANTED TO PEE ETC IT WOULD BE EASIER. PULL UPS ARE JUST A NAPPY AND NO GOOD FOR THE CHILD BEING ABLE TO TELL IF HE HAS PEED.HOWEVER TESCOS DO A GOOD BRAND AT A REASONABLE PRICE. ALL MY CHILDREN WORE PULL UPS AS THEY WERE NOT TRAINED AND IT IS EASIER. IT DID NOT CONFUSE THEM. THEY WERE IN THE NURSERY IN THE AFTERNOONS AND IT DIDN'T AFFECT THEIR POTTY TRAINING AS AS SOON AS I LEFT THE NURSERY THEY PUT PANTS ON.

I think the issue is more that they are saying they don't have the facilites for cloth nappy use. More like they can't be arsed.

i don't understand what "facility" they need. all i use is a changing mat and a carrier bag for wet nappies.

I have certainly heard the thing about not legally being able to refuse to use cloth, although I can't remember the specifics.