It's the 1980's, what are you doing?

Milly Robertson said:
Toilet training elder son.
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How's things going, Milly?

Have you got him trained during the day fully yet? Do you have your son in training pants yet?

My neighbour Debbie, is in the midst of toilet training her oldest. Debbie has her daughter all but trained through the day, but is still going the route of nighttime diapers on her at bedtime. Cloth diapers definitely help I think, because the child feels the wet, and Debbie uses cloth diapers.

My oldest is now 24 months and pulls at her rubber pants when she's wet, which my mom said is a good sign, so I've been sitting her on the baby potty when I get her up from her crib first thing in the morning.

I pat the front of my pants when asking her if she's wet or has to go pee-pee, and when asking her if she's gone poo-poo or has to go poo-poo, I pat my bottom, then reach down and gently pat her bottom. It's taken a few days, but dear daughter has started patting her own diapers/pants in the front when she's wet, and her bottom when she's soiled, and she'll come to me while patting her diapers as if to tell me that she needs changing. My mom said girls tend to be easier to train than boys, and that girls tend to train earlier.

My baby brother was a late trainer, and I remember babysitting a couple of kids that wore diapers until they were age 4, and that was boys.
 
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Yes, but the elder one only for night-time. The elder one took a long time to be night trained.

The younger son often spits out his dummy at night-time and then screams because he doesn't have it. We took it in turns to try to find it by torch light. Having spares was a good thing.
 
Milly Robertson said:
Yes, but the elder one only for night-time. The elder one took a long time to be night trained.

The younger son often spits out his dummy at night-time and then screams because he doesn't have it. We took it in turns to try to find it by torch light. Having spares was a good thing.
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Your story is mine to a T, Milly!

With my last two, I thought the nighttime diapers would never end. 13 months apart, youngest born in 1992. I have a picture of a family gathering in our backyard (summer of 96), and there's a row of diapers on the clothesline in the background!

As for soothers (that's what I've always called them), I was forever rinsing them off when the kids would drop theirs. As for other memories... my youngest daughter used to toss her baby bottle out of the crib and onto the floor when it was done (empty).
 
Running a 7 day milk-bar with my husband and trying to keep up with housework. In the end I listened to my husband and we hired a house cleaner once a week to clean. It made my life so much better.
 
September 1985... changing time!

Baby knows the drill... up with the legs at change-time!

Off with the rubber pants... unlatch and pluck pins from diapers (cloth)... change the diapers... fasten diapers with pins (one on each side)... turn rubber pants right-side out, give pants a shake, dust inside of rubber pants with a dash of Johnson's Baby Powder or Diaparene... holding rubber pants with stretched out elastic waistband... catch baby's feet and thread them through elastic leg holes of rubber pants... pull rubber pants up the legs and swish, swish, swish... rubber pants over diapers!
 
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So right you are, Milly!

Having grown up in a home with baby siblings and a mom that used cloth diapers, I got lots of practice changing diapers starting at a young age. Then came my teen years... babysitting for all the neighbourhood moms, and in those days everyone used cloth diapers.

So when I was pregnant with my oldest I was determined to follow in my moms footsteps and use old-fashioned traditional cloth diapers.

Economical... comfy on babies bottoms... versatile... traditional... no running out of diapers ever!
 
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