Fluff Fridays – Week 11 *** CLOSED ***

Welcome to this week’s giveaway!!!!

What would you win? The winner will get:1-Bumwear pull on training pant with micro terry insert 1-Bummis Training Pant (new to our store!)1-Tiny Tush Pull on Training Pant What to do? Simply leave a comment telling us what do you think works best for potty training a child: training pants or regular underwear and why. Please, have in mind that you need to answer the question EACH day to make it count. Don’t forget to leave a way for us to contact you if you’re the winner. You don’t need to have a blog to win, but be sure to leave your email address if you don’t have one.

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I haven’t had the experience yet of potty training, my daughter is 18 months old, so this will be something that we will be experiencing soon enough. I think that I would be too afraid to potty train using regular underwear because I would think that it would be a really messy ordeal, so I think that I would use training pants. I am interested to see what other people say that have gone through potty training.

For me it is the time of day and what we have going. If it is during the day and we are at home, it is underwear or nothing at all(I think that works the best) and if it is night or well we are out it is training pants… once are are done with diapers there is no going back and forth for us… There is just too much confusion.

as with all things, it has been a combination, and different for both my kids. My son did best with underwear, having it wet all his clothes got through to him better than when it only got the underwear (or if i used disposable training pants…well, they were useless, he couldn't care less about the fading designs). however for my daughter, while using training underwear were useful for that "oh, it makes a big mess when i pee my pants" connection, she responded better to DISPOSABLE training pants than anything else!! We used them for going to church & when i explained that the "hearts go away" if she pees in her pants, she was mortified. She prefers to wear those crazy things & is so excited to see "i not make hearts go away!". Geez. We're now 2 weeks into it & thankfully she will not fight me on wearing actual cotton underwear, anymore. 🙂 But I'd love some cloth trainers for naptime & night-time!

I’m not sure where I should put this comment, but I would love to see Kelly’s Closet carry Kushies swim diapers. I am absolutely IN LOVE with the daisy print and like the idea of a swim diaper that has a bit of a liner (I wasn’t impressed with the Imse Vimse I tried last summer), so I plan on buying that for my daughter this spring.

I like using regular underwear during the day with training pants at night. This allows the child to feel the effects of wetting himself right away during the day (faster teaching, in my opinion) but doesn’t force me to wash bedding constantly!

I tried to encourage my daughter to use the potty for months, but she would flatly refuse and keep going in her diaper or pull-up. Then I decided to go cold-turkey and only use underwear during the day. Well, after a week of accidents, she was able to reach the bathroom on time. I’ve never tried the cloth training pants, but I’d love to use that at night and for naps.

My DD is 15 months old and she has PP'd on the potty 3 times so far. (By chance mostly). But I think it's huge that she is not afraid to sit on the potty & she is not afraid of the flushing toilet. We have a book that was given to us about potty training for girls and she loves to sit on the potty and flip through it and it has a button with the flush sound and she thinks it's hilarious. So anyways, introducing her to the physical potty early on (11 months) and taking her in w/ me whenever I go…has gotten her use to the idea. Our schedules have been far to busy to be consistent w/ the training pants like we should be. But, the last time I put them on her she went well over an hour w/ out wetting them, which indicates she is learning how to hold it a little longer.

I don’t have any experience with boys, but I can tell you that I didn’t need to use training pants with my daughter. She was potty trained overnight. The secret is to wait until the child is ready, not when you’re ready. When the child is ready, they will not want to have accidents.

I think underwear would work better. When I started to use prefolds without covers, my son started wanting his diaper changed right after peeing–I think the PUL covers keep him warm, but without those, a wet diaper feels uncomfortable. It was shortly after that that he started holding his pee and peeing in the potty.

That being said–I don’t like the mess that underwear creates, so we’re using trainers and diapers until he’s poop trained!

I am not sure I’m the best to answer this but we used training pants, regular underwear and nothing. The only way I could get my dd to poop in the toliet was to go naked. I prefer the traning pants like gerber at the beginning since they can feel wet but it doesn’t make as big a mess. I am dreading potting training with my younger dd now 22 months. She refuses to sit on the potty now. So we are waiting until she shows a little more interest. My older dd has been trained over a year now and still needs a diaper at nap and night time. So these would be nice for us to try out.

With our 3yr old, once we made the switch cold turkey from disposable trainers to underwear, it took 3 days and she was able to make it to the toilet every time! And that was when she was 2 yrs 2 months! Our 21 month old is now wearing diapers but using the toilet throughout the day… usually only wet dipes at nap or night! Cloth trainers would certainly replace the diapers and make it just as easy for this preggo momma!

i would have to say ditch the store bought pull ups. they can’t tell when they are wet or dry. my son potty trained within maybe 2 weeks when he was 2.5 yrs old. my dd was about the same age, and she was in reg old underware with a plastic pants over it to keep the mess in.

I start out using training pants & then switch to underwear, mainly because if you just do underwear then your stuck cleaning underwear, pants, socks, & shoes which just sucks 😉 My 2 yr old is throwing me for a loop the lil turkey will go potty alllll day long (in the potty) if hes wearing nothing but a shirt, that's right if I let him run around the house naked he does great however the minute something is covering his bottom he poops/pees in it! Grrrrrr

Well, seeing as my daughter is not yet potty trained and I haven’t given it the FULL effort (she’s 17 months), I can’t comment too seriously on this. I do feel like a quick transition to panties is important, though. When used, training pants should be used very briefly! I do CD and I would LOVE to try these out soon!Thanks 🙂

This will be my first time trying cloth training pants. Last time around I used disposables. I think that training probably works best with regular underpants during the day, but a waterproof pant at night.

I’m in the process of attempting to potty train my child. At this point, I haven’t figured out which works better yet. We’ve recently (as in the past two weeks) tried training pants on her with little success. We’ve shown her regular underpants that she can wear once she starts to use the potty more. She doesn’t seem that excited yet – although she has started putting her stuffed animals and dolls on the potty, so hopefully, she’s getting the picture.

It seemed like it took a long time to potty train my son who is now 4 years old. We used Bummis training pants at first and then went to underwear. As others have posted, we also had him naked to learn how it felt when he needed to go.

Potty training has been one of the most difficult parenting things for me…..we’ll see how it goes with my second and third kids!!

We started potty training without a lot of success. So far, I’ve tried all methods. Regular panties with all clothes on seem to have made more of an impression, but a huge mess! We’ve decided to hold off a little longer before trying again.

I used the bare bottom approach during the day for my daughter. We kept her in diapers at night. She only had 1 accident while going bare, and she went bare for almost 2 months! At that point we explained that she could wear big girl underwear now, and made a big deal of it so she got excited about picking out “Dora” undies. She was completely dry, day and night, within 10 days. We went directly to regular underwear. I tried using the disposable trainers for outings and such, but she treated them just like diapers, so they were useless for us. I thought she learned pretty easily, with little stress on anyone. It helped that she was almost 3 years old and understood everything that was going on…it worked better for us to wait until that point because things went much easier! We’ll see what happens with my son. Now that we’re cloth diapering (we didn’t with DD) I may try using the cloth trainers instead of disposables for outings, etc. He’s only 18 mo., so most likely we won’t be worrying about potty training for a year yet.

Well, I have been using the pull ups with my son with absolutely no results, he could care less if he wets them because they are just like a diaper. I am switching to training pants so he will feel that he has wet and associate it with what he felt before he went. Hope it works, at least for the days. I know it will be a bit longer before he is ready to be trained through the night.

I don’t like waterproof trainers because *I* get lazy and just let them go in the pants. Bad, I know. I put them in regular underwear, and they get a piece of candy for every drop they put in the toilet. For my son, that meant peeing every 10 minutes. But hey, at least his pants were dry! The rules: mommy has to see the pee/poop in the toilet. If she can’t see it, it doesn’t count. When he went dry for a good long time (two weeks or more) we stopped doing the candy thing, and enjoying wet pants was a distant memory. Worked like a charm.

We have had great success using regular underwear during the day and diapers at night and nap. But, I think an absorbent trainer would work better- no diapers at all to confuse the child as to when they can or cannot go in their pants! Yes using regular underwear is a little messy at first, but it only took our daughters 2-3 days (in a row)of infrequent accidents to make it to the toilet every time!

wow this sound realy neet i love to give it a try with my little one we are just starting the potty thing we been working on it for some time shes well at that stage where she no longer wish to where dippers but she wants to where pull ups and panty’s any how please enter me infor this thanks

Monday comment: After reading these comments, I think I might have to try regular underpants. My daughter doesn’t react at all to the pull-ups we’ve tried. She somewhat notices that she’s wet in her training pants. Perhaps regular underwear is what we’ll need to try next…or going around with a bare bottom for a little bit during the day. We’ll see – it looks like it will be a cold week around here so if we stay inside a lot, it might be a good time to attempt some of these ideas! To all: Thanks for sharing your experiences!

My sister just had baby #3 four weeks ago and she has a 3 yr old and a 2 yr old. She needs to train the 2 yr old. What she thought worked best was to train the 3 yr old with training pants after he had been using pull-ups for a bit and then after the training pants he now wears little boy boxers and he feels like he is such a big boy now.

I haven’t had the experience yet of potty training, my daughter is 18 months old, so this will be something that we will be experiencing soon enough. I think that I would be too afraid to potty train using regular underwear because I would think that it would be a really messy ordeal, so I think that I would use training pants… but a lot of people on here so far say underwear is the best way to go, and in my daughters 18 mo. check up today I ask and the doctor said the same thing, so I have things to learn and think about.

Well, since I have two 19 month olds and have just started crossing the potty training bridge, I don’t know what works best, but I do know that we will be starting with training pants. we need some extra protection and absorbency. Thanks for a super giveaway!jjdragonfly [at] gmail [dot] com

I purchased these Gerber training pants (cotton) and the white plastic covers to go over them. But, they are SO noisy and ugly. Then I realized that when I’m at home, it would be better to just leave the cover off anyways.

I have not potty trained yet, my dd is 15 months old, so we will be thinking about this soon. I would have to say that I think training pants would be better at the beginning when you are first getting started and baby is first learning to go on the potty, and then underwear as they get more used to the process.

This will be my first time using training pants. My first son wanted to wear underware and that was his incentive to potty train. My 2 yr old son who is potty training now is not as motivated by that, so we are using training pants for the day and diapers at night for him.

I haven’t had the experience yet of potty training, my daughter is 18 months old, so this will be something that we will be experiencing soon enough. I think that I would be too afraid to potty train using regular underwear because I would think that it would be a really messy ordeal, so I think that I would use training pants… but a lot of people on here so far say underwear is the best way to go, and in my daughters 18 mo. check up today I ask and the doctor said the same thing, so I have things to learn and think about.

Do cloth training pants make that plastic rubbing “noise” when the child walks? I tried to put a cheap Gerber waterproof cover over my daughter’s underwear ONCE… She hated it so much (and was very vocal about it) that I never used it again.

Tuesday comment: Pull-ups haven’t worked for us at all. I’ve found that my daughter assumes they are diapers. She hasn’t acted any different with training pants either (she’ll walk around soaking wet). And the waterproof covers were useless over the training pants (the puddle that appeared on our couch was proof)! The next step will be attempting regular underpants or maybe going pantless, but I might wait until it is a little warmer (it’s cold in Minnesota today and although we are inside, there are still chilly spots in the house that aren’t comfy for naked bums – LOL). 🙂

i don’t know what works best for potty training…for us it was one day my son was just “ready” and that was basically it (for pee). well, it took a little extra time for #2 (he wanted to go get a diaper, use it and then have me change it, even though he was wearing underwear)! but once he decided he was ready, he WAS ready. that was it. i consider myself lucky.

“Why do you want to win these trainers?” Because I’d love to never buy a box of expensive Pull-Ups again! These are way cuter, way softer (-looking… we haven’t tried them yet), and of course, environmentally friendly – hooray!

(I just started posting comments today. I had been discouraged by past giveaways, thinking I don’t have a chance, but the extra give-away of the BlueBerry Minky trainers got my hopes up again, so I’m starting today.)

I’m not the best potty-trainer, even though I’ve helped my first 3 kids through it already. I’m gearing up to help my fourth child, and would love some extra exciting products to use!

i think it’s all about making a smooth transition. start moving from diapers to trainers then move gradually from trainers to underwear. i would think underwear during the day and trainers at night would be best after they’ve gotten the hang of it.

And I just read about the minky trainers and I would love to win those because I think the minky is so beautiful and soft. They really do seem like something that a toddler would be excited to pick out and put on for themselves because of the softness and fun prints and colors.

I babysit my nephew (age 2 and 1/2) and my sister and I are having a terrible time getting him excited about potty training. I think these might help! Bonus: I could use them for my son when he’s ready too!

We have had my older dd PT for well over a year. But for some reason she is still wetting at night and at naptime. Even if I make her potty before she takes a nap she will still wet. At night I restrict fluids after a certain time make her potty before bed and she still wets. She is getting to big for the FB we use at night and I’d love to find something that worked for us other than a diaper so that if she need to go she could easily get the pants on and off.

Here's my EXTRA comment since I am responding to the question posed for the other giveaway & why I'd like those trainers:

"Why do you want to win these trainers?"

Because the prints look super cute, super soft, and I'd LOVE to find a trainer to help me make potty training fun for my daughter (2.5 years old). A bonus if the trainer doesn't leak and keeps the puddles off my sofa! 🙂

“Why would I like to win the trainers?” With 2 daughters who could wear them (a 3 yo and a 21 mo), and a third daughter due in March, I would love to free up more of my diapers for our new addition! And maybe they would be an incentive for night time dryness! We tried the other night w a different trainer, and I was woken up at 3:30 AM by a wet and crying child… back to the diapers we went!

Wednesday comment: I’m enjoying reading not only the POSTS about PTing for this week but the COMMENTS as well – since I’m collecting new ideas on how to PT my anti-potty (her stance at the moment) toddler! I’m also excited to learn about these training pant options since pull-ups have not worked at all! 🙂

We have started our children’s training by encouraging them to use the potty while still wearing diapers. Once they are regularly going on the potty, and are wetting in diapers perhaps once a day (other than naps and nighttime), we switch to regular underwear- cold turkey. We’ve always made the switch while my husband is on vacation, so we just hang out at home for the week. We move the children’s portable potty into the open kitchen/dining/living room area so the visual stimulus for going to the potty is right there. After a day or two or a few accidents, my daughters (at 27 and 21 months) are in regular underwear for the day and go on the potty by themselves like pros! Nap and nighttime is a greater struggle… but they are big milk drinkers, so they are heavy wetters!

When I potty trained my oldest son at 2 1/2 we did the bare bottom method for a few day and it worked great. Of course I had to clean up quite a few messes, but that’s why we have a carpet steam cleaner, right? I moved the little potty chair out into the family room where we spend most of the day, so it was easy for him to run over to it and use it when he felt the urge. Once I felt he understood what it was for, I moved it into the bathroom. Just eight weeks after I began potty training with him, we went away on a weeks vacation…including an 11 hour car ride. He stayed dry the whole time and used the public restrooms like a champ. I did put him in trainers instead of underwear for the long car ride, but he managed to keep those dry. We now have him in regular underwear (Thomas the Tank engine of course!) all day, and a Fuzzi Bunz at night. He is no where near ready for night training yet. My youngest son is only 10 months, so it will be a while before I embark on the potty training adventures again, but I would love to add those beautiful Blueberry Minky trainers to our stash.

Why I want to win the Minky trainers: They are hands down the cutest trainers I’ve seen! I would love a nice soft trainer to use when I night train my oldest, and then again when I potty train my youngest in another two years or so.

also, not sure where i was supposed to leave the "why i want to win the minky trainers" quest. I answered it on that post. (that my potty training daughter needs some extra "sleeping protection" in the form of trainers & is VERY motivated & excited about "pretty underwear" & not keen on diapers anymore). 🙂

I would love to win the minkys!! I love the blueberry diapers and I am in need of training pants since we are beginning to potty train our two year old. The minkys look so soft and great for nighttime!! I would love to win them.

I prefer training pants just because they are in between a diaper and underware. They help the child to feel like a “big kid” because they are not diapers, but the are absorbant to catch any accidents.

I LOVE minky & I've been wanting to try the blueberry diaper, but now that I hear they have a trainer that is the one I REALLY want to try. The combination of the minky, the cute patterns and the absorbency will make this perfect for the beginning stages of potty training.

I am not brave enough to start out in regular underwear. My kids have all shown interest in potty training early, so we always start out in trainers & progress to regular undies when they are no longer having frequent accidents.

A tip I wanted to share with all the first time potty trainers…Start with getting your child to recognize when they need to poop….kids who pee train first are much more likely to develop a "fear" of pooping in the potty & wet pants or diapers are soooo much easier to deal with than a kid who will only poop in a diaper.

Why I would love to win the Blueberry Minky Trainers: These trainers sound great! They look so cute too. I would love to win these because I will be potty training soon since my daughter is 18 months and showing us signs that she will be ready soon to start potty training. I think that I am too afraid to start out potty training with only underwear!

I haven’t had the experience yet of potty training, my daughter is 18 months old, so this will be something that we will be experiencing soon. I think that I would be too afraid to potty train using regular underwear because I would think that it would be a really messy ordeal (and being pregnant with morning sickness I don’t think that I can handle messy potty training right now since I can barely handle my daughters messy diapers), so I think that I would use training pants… but a lot of people on here so far say underwear is the best way to go, and in my daughters 18 mo. check up on Monday I ask and the doctor said the same thing, so I have things to learn and think about. I still don’t think that I could go cold turkey with the underwear though! It would be nice to have her potty trained by the time I have a newborn in August using cloth diapers as well!

We use both with our kids. Training pants are great for trips away from the house so that if there is an accident you don’t have to change your child’s entire outfit. However, regular underwear work great for days at home and they are a lot less expensive then training pants. The only problem that we have had is finding them in small enough sizes.

It seemed like it took a long time to potty train my son who is now 4 years old. We used Bummis training pants at first and then went to underwear. As others have posted, we also had him naked to learn how it felt when he needed to go.

Potty training has been one of the most difficult parenting things for me…..we’ll see how it goes with my second and third kids!!

Both! At home underpants so they get the instant obvious alert that they peed. Away from home training pants so they still get the wet feel but don’t leave puddles in public or at friends’ houses.teriannm AT gmail DOT com

I’m not sure which would work better. I have tried putting my son in underwear and that hasn’t worked. I have also tried pull-ups and that hasn’t worked. I’m hoping these training pants will do the trick!

After getting the child acquainted w the potty- having them use it during the day by parental prompting and then child prompting- we have found make the cold turkey switch to real underwear has been the most successful training method. It is a little messy for the first day or two, but our children have (thankfully!) a dislike of the mess and by day 3 are toilet-using pros! Special trainers for nap and night would be more effective than returning to diapers for leak protection as the child will not associate the trainer with diapers, which equal pee in my pants!

I would love to win the blueberry minky trainers because we have two daughters who could wear them now, a third due in March, and this stay at home mom is looking for ways to feed my cloth diaper addiction without spending any of my husband’s hard earned, but limiting, music teacher’s salary!

When I trained my oldest son, we started out with the bare bottom method before moving to training pants, and then to regular underwear. I found that with him, bare bottom for the first few days worked best, followed by regular underwear. I used my trainers mostly when we would leave the house to run errands, and then when we went on vacation that included an 11 hour car ride. (He stayed dry!) I plan on using the trainers again whenever we attempt night training, which is a while off yet.

I've used the book "Potty Training in Less Than a Day" and I think it has great ideas. It didn't work for me so easily like it worked for my sister & her daughter, though.

"Why do you want to win these trainers?" Because I'd love to never buy a box of expensive Pull-Ups again! These are way cuter, way softer (-looking… we haven't tried them yet), and of course, environmentally friendly – hooray!

I posted this answer on product focus, so i will answer that question over here. It has been a long week! I would love to win some trainers becuase right now my son is having to wear pullups and i can not stand them. It will also be nice to know that when my baby is ready i have the trainers to get him started!

Thursday comment/question: Any tips on helping a toddler who just doesn’t seem to WANT to use the potty (even though they know what it is for, seem to be able to “hold it,” and get excited when *I* use the potty)? I’ve tried rewards and LOTS of praise and I still get resistance. *sigh*

I haven’t had the experience yet of potty training, my daughter is 18 months old, so this will be something that we will be experiencing soon. I think that I would be too afraid to potty train using regular underwear because I would think that it would be a really messy ordeal (and being pregnant with morning sickness I don’t think that I can handle messy potty training right now since I can barely handle my daughters messy diapers), so I think that I would use training pants… but a lot of people on here so far say underwear is the best way to go, and in my daughters 18 mo. check up on Monday I ask and the doctor said the same thing, so I have things to learn and think about. I still don’t think that I could go cold turkey with the underwear though! It would be nice to have her potty trained by the time I have a newborn in August using cloth diapers as well!