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!
