We are hot and heavy with potty training these days. When my daughter turned two, she became very interested in using the potty. But it was the dead of winter, and the chilly Northeast wasn’t an inviting time to run around without your pants on. So I pushed it off until now, when days are warm and we spend much of the day outside. It has made my life a lot easier and she seems to have regained her interest.
If you’ve potty trained or are doing it, you know some days are all hits, cheers and clapping, others- many misses, a pat on the back and a “we’ll get it next time”. We are trying to use a pull-up training pant when we’re out or if she’s sleeping, no pants any warm day we are outside, and Gerber cotton training pants with the vinyl cover in the house. (I confess she hates the vinyl cover, so it is a challenge to get her to keep it on) But overall, its going well. She says “no, thank you” when I try to put a diaper on her. I have to do major reminding when she’s deep in play, all stuff to be expected. Aside from disposable and washable pull ups, we bought 2 potties the Baby Bjorn
One thing that I had set out to find to assist our potty training was a good chemical free, flushable wipe. I headed to Whole Foods to see if they had some, but they did not. So I hit the next best place- the internet. To my surprise there are very few, I found only two- Avalon Organics flushable wipes at a wow worthy $8.95 a container and TenderCare at Diapers.com for $2.58 per container. (each container has 50 wipes) It looks as though it is the same company that makes Tushies and its recognizable six ingredient list passes my first test. By the way, there seem to be a pretty big variety fitting the chemical free flushable wipe category available in Europe- no surprise here…
Diapers.com is set to deliver them in 2 days, so I’ll let you know what we think of them. In the meantime, good luck keeping the floors dry!
We received the wipes from Diapers.com, they got here very quickly. So far the wipes are good, no perfumy smell and they are pretty gentle. They break a little but I think they need to be very biodegradable for flushing. I would buy them again.
Hi,
I agree with your review of the tendercare/tushies flushable wipes; they’re great! But does anyone know what’s going on with the manufacturers of the wipes? I have been searching every online retailer and they are all out of stock. That is so strange. I even e-mailed the company and that message was returned undelivered. Any news, please share and I’ll do the same if I hear anything. Thanks.
Mika
Hi Mika
Yes- I’ve come across the same thing, at first I just thought Diapers.com was out since that was where I had been buying them from (in the meantime I was hesitantly using unscented Kandoo). But they are being discontinued for some reason. I haven’t found out why yet. In the meantime I am looking for another chemical-free, biodegradable, flushable wipe and will post them here.
Avalon Flushable Wipes
Beaming Baby Wipes a UK brand
not flushable but they biodegrade…
Bio Wet Wipes
Nature Baby Care
Natura Care Baby Wipes
Regretfully most are much more expensive. Let me know if you find any others!
I can find NONE now. Not even the expensive Avalon ones. What is going on?!
Earth’s best is coming out with some but they will not be in stores for a couple more months (I called their customer service #)
See the press release for 3/09 on the Earth’s best website.
The SRP is around 2.99 (yipee).
Just bought Earth’s Best Flushable Wipes at Babies R Us today!