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I've decided to upgrade one of the kids to undies at childcare. Not because they've been making progress with toilet training, almost the opposite. A few days in a row last week he'd come hope with a sore bum that was so red, he was in so much pain and at times we wouldn't shower him because it would hurt too much. He has a habit of waiting for a fresh nappy to go to the toilet, then doesn't tell anyone. So at care he's going the maximum interval with a dirty nappy, and you combine that with the blueberries he's been eating and he's been having problems.
So I decided undies for him. He'll either be more mindful of going to the toilet or he won't be able to hide it. We've tried talking to him about letting someone know before or after he goes to the toilet but there have been too many repeat days of this and I don't want him to be in pain.
It's a long weekend here and we went to a blueberry farm as well because they have this dinosaur display. It sounds like an odd combo but 3 year olds love berries and they love dinosaurs to props to them for making that connection. He's going to be eating a lot of blueberries in the coming days so I'm not dealing with this for the next week and I know he doesn't want to either.
Sometimes, that's what you gotta do. I've seen parents do that at our daycare. I remember one Dad would show up with a duffel bag full of cloths each day, expecting the kiddo to just pee through all their outfits. We definitely did the same with our oldest for a time, send her in with trainers on. My youngest will tell me he has to pee, but only in the bath, because he's naked and doesn't want to pee in the bath. I think it's because the first couple of times he did it, I scooped him out of the tub and put him on the potty. That must have been enough for him to make the connection, and now he will shout at me in the tub "OH NO I GOTTA PEEEEEEEEEE!!".
The hardest part of this transition isn't the pee, but the poop. Nothing quite like having to clean out cloth trainers full of poop... Good luck!
This is where a high pressure bidet sprayer comes in handy. We did cloth diapers for both kids and will always highly recommend getting a bidet sprayer for at least one toilet. Works great for basically any soiled garnet. I can’t count how many times I’ve used it to spray food and mud and markets off our kids clothes.