How many diapers a day with 3yo
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Anonymous
| I've been changing my 3-year-old 8-10 times a day and it's really adding up money-wise. For those of you with 3-year-olds who haven't been potty trained yet, how often do you change them? I'm starting to wonder if I should wait a bit longer between changes, as I currently change her as soon as she has even a small accident. I was hoping we'd be ready for potty training by now, but she's not showing any signs beyond being able to pull her pants up and down and using some language. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. |
Anonymous
| I just kind of threw my 3 year old daughter into the deep end and got her some princess underwear which she was pretty excited about. Tried to easy into it by avoiding having them on during times of high excitement or immediately after dinner. Constant reinforcement of 'we don't poop in our panties', 'let us know when you have to go potty', and little gummy treats when she goes. Installed some new toilet seats with an insert for kids which she also liked. Sometimes she needs more help getting to the potty in time and dropping her pants. There are messes. I'm not sure there's a perfect moment to start trying. |
Anonymous
| 8-10 times a day? It's really time to start training. I don't think you need to wait for her to be totally interested. Make it interesting. |
Anonymous
OP here - thank you, how do I start if she's going so regularly and isn't telling me? |
Anonymous
| I haven't potty trained recently, but basically, you load them up with liquids and sit them on the potty frequently (every hour-ish). Make a big deal of the successful pees! |
Anonymous
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I used one diaper per day at 3 because it was at night.
You need to just tell her it’s happening, get some books from the library, and just do it. Have prizes/rewards on hand. |
Anonymous
Do the Oh Crap weekend. |
Anonymous
| Modem diapers are really absorbent. You don't need to change them every time she pees a little. After a poop and a few other times throughout the day is fine. If she complains about being wet, then start training! |
Anonymous
| Wow, I really don't know. That's like 18 months after all three of my children were out of diapers already. |
Anonymous
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OP, I potty trained my DD at 3 and I recall that for poop, she was very regular and it was easy to know when she needed to go. Like she did it around the same time daily. That made it easier because initially she absolutely would not even try to poop in the potty. So at first, I'd put her in underwear in the morning and we'd work on using the potty for pee, and then when we started getting to the time if say when she pooped, she'd ask for a diaper and I'd give it to her so she could poop. Once she was more comfortable with the potty, training for poop was pretty easy because it was very predictable (I started by having her go in her diaper, but in the bathroom). She never actually had a poop accident.
Also, for pee, part of training was her learning not to release tiny amounts of pee all day, but instead going to the potty and vacating her bladder. If you're doing 8-10 diapers a day, yours might be similar. I encouraged the potty by letting her watch YouTube be videos if she was sitting in the potty, and eventually it clicked. |
Anonymous
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OP here - thanks for the helpful replies. I do want to start potty training. It is against the reassurance of the paediatrician saying she probably isn't quite ready yet.
We did try oh crap and it was properly done, but we got nowhere. I'll try regular intervals and leave the diaper on longer to try and understand the feeling of being wet instead of changing before she is ready |
Anonymous
| Have you tried putting undies under the diaper so she can feel when she’s wet? I used cloth diapers prior to potty training and I think it helped. |
Anonymous
| OP here- I've not tried undies yet, but could start doing that right now as she needs a change. Is there a risk of leaks or accidents with this. I'm fine is there's going to be leaks but will just make sure she doesn't run around the whole house. |
Anonymous
| I used to change my 2 year old maybe 3 times a day. Always when they pooped, but never immediately when they peed. Usually like morning, lunch, nap type thing. Most of the people I know operated like this after 18ish months |
Anonymous
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Okay OP, so you’re not in a situation where you haven’t potty trained - you’re in a situation where you tried and it didn’t work. That’s very different!
A big factor is if there are any developmental delays. If not, you might just try the naked weekend again. Maybe it will click this time. |