Terry nappies

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Do you think there is any truth in the idea that DC potty much earlier if they are wearing a terry nappy, as opposed to a disp, because they can feel more when they are wet or dirty. My mil thinks so, but I'm not convinced because DS 2 last month still has no idea and won't tell me when he's done something in his nappy!

That's a common idea, but I'm not sure whether it's true either.
My DD was in cotton nappies the whole way through, but she only trained at 2.7, when she felt she was ready. I don't think the type of nappy had any effect on it.
DS is currently 1.10 and shows no sign of being any earlier in training than his sister.
I think there are too many factors involved to be really sure.

I have used washables with both of mine. I'm pretty sure that DD's nappies helped her with potty training (she was dry day and night at 2.3yrs).

She used to tell me if she had a wet nappy, because she could feel it and it all helps awareness, action- consequence, etc.

Also a wet washable is more uncomfortable than a wet disposable, so they have more of an incentive to start using the loo.

I think it's partly that using, and therefore washing, terries gives the parent a greater incentive to train earlier. This would have been especially true if you had to hand wash etc. I think the kind of potty training most older generation people did, which if they are to believed generally resulted in earlier clean and dry-ness, was really closer to what we now call ec (elimination communication) than contemporary conventional potty training. They began offering a potty much earlier, when a babies born instinct to stay clean hasn't been over ridden by nappy wearing. My pet theory is that once that instinct's gone (around 6m according to ecers) you need to wait till a child is ready to conciously learn control iyswim.

My DDs are both in cloth nappies and we are about to potty train DD1 who is just 2. I know she can feel when she's wet, sometimes her nappy is absolutely sopping because she stores a load of wee and then lets it all go at once but she never seems to care that she's wet! I think she'd sit in a wet nappy all day and not be bothered.
And she'll usually tell me she's done a poo but when I say, lets change your nappy then, she just says no.
I'm just hoping when we put her in pants the sensation of being wet will somehow feel different so she'll want to use the potty instead.

I don't know. My dd1 and dd2 both had clothe nappies and were trained at 23 and 19 months.

DS was in disposable nappies and not showing any signs of discomfort even when they were really dirty and wet. I didn't like this, and decided to potty train him (he is now 23 months). I let him run round bare bottomed.

We had a couple of days of accidents but he soon got the idea and is now reliably dry, which surprised me because he wasn't showing any signs of being ready; I was just fed up of him running round in dirty nappies and not wanting his nappy changed. So many people had told me boys are harder to potty train but this is just not my experience.

I have to admit, it helps that we don;t have any carpet, it's made us much more relaxed about potty training because accidents are a normal part of potty training while they discover how to control themselves.

Interesting theory moonfacemama- the only difficulty we have faced with ds is that he can only poo standing up because nappies have allowed him to do that. He finds it very hard to poo on the potty even though he is trying his best - I end up having to hold the potty under him while he poos while standing up.

My friend who does EC with her ds aged 9 months does not have this problem because her ds has only ever pooed in a sitting position.

So definitely nappies have made potty training a little harder.

I was sceptical about this but my little one was potty trained at 2 and my friends little one at 17months, both were in reusable nappies. It does depend partly on when the child is ready but I do think it helped a lot that they could feel when they'd wee'd unlike in disposables. Once I dared to venture out with my little one we used reusable trainer pants from Screaming Green which hold one little wee i.e. can prevent puddles on the floor or on you ! We also bought a tots bots 3in1 potty from them which I cannot recommend highly enough. I also used our reusable nappies to line the care seat or buggy just in case of any accidents and of course we already had a wet bag for the nappies which can now be used for clothes if the worse happens ! Good Luck