There comes a time when every parent, without exception, faces the task of starting to wean a child from diapers. And the first question that most people have is what age is better and easier to do and how to do it right.
When is it best to wean
Twenty years ago, our mothers and grandmothers were convinced - the sooner the better. Of course, because before there were no disposable diapers that made life easier for mothers and fathers. There were reusable gauze diapers that had to be washed, dried, ironed indefinitely. Therefore, the desire to quickly accustom the baby to walk on the pot was quite natural.
Now, most pediatric doctors speak with one voice that it is better to teach a child to do without a diaper after he reaches two - two and a half years. They justify this by the fact that by this age the baby begins to recognize his needs and begins to ask for a pot.
But this does not exclude the transition from a diaper to a pot earlier - from about nine months, and a little later - about three years. The later you begin to wean the baby from the diaper, the easier and faster you will succeed.
The most important thing is a patient and attentive attitude towards the baby.
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How to determine if it's time
It is advisable to pay attention to some signs that show that the right moment has come for weaning from the diaper.
- You have watched your baby and see that he goes to the toilet at regular intervals. That is, a certain mode has developed. This usually happens after waking up from sleep and after eating;
- The kid can independently take off and put on (or at least try) panties, panties;
- Can, by crying, screaming, or other actions show that he is wet, that he does not like to be in a dirty diaper;
- The diaper stays dry for 2 hours;
- The baby knows the names of body parts, clothing.
Tips and Techniques
Consider several ways to wean a child from diapers.
Before you start weaning, introduce the baby to the potty. Explain that he will write and poop here, tell me the sounds ("a-a", "pi-pi"), with the help of which he can give a sign that it is time to go to the toilet.
We read an article on the topic of teaching a child to a potty -https://kid.htgetrid.com/en/razvitie-rebenka-do-goda/kak-priuchit-rebenka-k-gorshku.html
There are situations when a child is afraid of the pot and does not want to sit on it in any way, to find out what to do in this case, written here
And we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the new method of potty training with the help of special training pants (interesting approach)
Method 1. Ten Tights
Tune in that for a week or two you will use the diaper only at night or when you go for a walk.
- You will need a pot (how to choose a great pot link at the end of the article) and a certain amount of clean tights (at least ten pieces);
- Pants should be easy to remove, make the elastic not too tight;
- In the morning, wear a crumb of tights, explain that there is no diaper on it. And if he wants to pee or poop, let him tell you or sit on the pot himself;
- Of course, in the first days, your child, out of habit, goes into his pants. And here we must be patient. Wait 5 minutes, let him walk in wet pantyhose. Let him feel that it is unpleasant and uncomfortable;
- After 5 - 7 minutes, wash the child and put on another dry panties;
- Keep the room warm.
In three to four days, the baby will already try to ask for a toilet. In a week or two, the other will sit on the pot independently.
This method is considered one of the most effective.
The downside here is that the baby walks wet for a while, and this is unhygienic. Well, more work will be done on wiping puddles, washing wet tights.
Method 2. Positive Example
This technique suggests using the example of older children (brothers and sisters, friends, neighborhood children). Pay attention to the fact that older children do without diapers. The desire to imitate quickly will lead to the fact that your baby will walk on the pot yourself, and diapers will not be needed.
A child attending kindergarten is even faster to wean from wearing diapers. Pay his attention to the fact that other children go without a diaper and sit on the pot themselves. This will be a powerful incentive for the baby to abandon the diaper.
Method 3. Using Toys
If there are no other children nearby, you can use the game method. Take your favorite baby toys, say that they are already big and do not wear diapers. Put them on the pot. Then invite the baby to sit down and pee on the potty too. You can even read a book for the first time, in order to keep the crumbs on the pot and make sure that he "goes" into it. So, playing, the child will quickly learn to do without diapers.
Do not forget, using any of these methods, to praise the baby as often as possible for the smallest trifle. So he will quickly understand that he is doing everything right, and will try to repeat at least so that you praise him again.
Sleeping without a diaper
Having taught a child to do without a diaper during the day, it is time to proceed to the next stage - the habit of weaning sleep in a diaper. Here, too, have their own nuances.
- Do not hurry. Accustom yourself gradually. If the child makes it clear that he is not ready yet, is naughty, do not insist, put it off for a while. After a few days, try again.
- Before bedtime, do not give your little one a drink.
- Before you go to bed, let him sit on the pot.
- At first, leave the lights on in the toilet, and a night light in the bedroom. The baby can wake up to go on the pot yourself.
- Plant in the morning on the pot, regardless of whether the baby is described or not.
- Your baby woke up dry? Be sure to praise him, pay attention to the dry bed.
If the baby regularly wakes up in a wet bed, postpone weaning from the diaper at night. Do not worry. Just use the diaper at night until it remains dry in the morning. Then you can safely do without it.
Weaning a child from diapers is easy. The main thing is not to rush and not listen to the "friendly" grandmothers, girlfriends and neighbors who advise almost from the cradle to teach the baby to ask for a pot. Wait until the child is physiologically and psychologically ready to give up the diaper. And boldly put the baby to sleep without a diaper.
We read further on the topic:
- Modern mothers share their experience: how to wean a baby from diapers in winter
- How to choose a pot
- How to choose diapers
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Useful article, especially for young parents. I weaned my baby from diapers in the summer. I believe that this is the best option when you can go out in the same panties, shorts. Twice a night, I picked it up and planted it on a pot. And over time, she got used to it and woke up for this. She was a little over a year old.
We taught our baby to go into the pot not so long ago. Now she even asks at night. And it all started not easy. Well, she didn’t perceive him. We were tormented and did not understand what was the matter. We bought another and it went) We do not understand why she did not like her first pot, it was probably uncomfortable. The second in appearance is also the most ordinary, slightly different shape with drawings. So, dear parents, another reason for the failure may simply be that the child does not like the pot, as it was with us.
How strange this does not sound, but during the time from the teachings of our Sasha from the toilet, I myself, without knowing it, used almost all the methods listed in your article. It seems to me that method 2 (a positive example) helped a lot at this age, children really like to inherit their brothers and sisters, so Sasha saw that Vovka was going to the toilet with all his might tried to get in there, then they explained to him that he had have your own pot.
“There comes a time when every parent, without exception, faces the task of starting to wean the child from diapers.” Before me such a task did not stand with my daughter, and my son will not stand. Because we did not accustom them. Used only for a walk in the first winter. The rest of the time they landed. The daughter began to independently go to the pot in 1g and 5 months. The son, while disembarking, can endure at night for 6 hours and in the afternoon up to 2 hours, if we walk. He is 6 months old.
From two years old ?! They were completely stunned there? And what not with seven? And when will I become a grandmother from the age of 15 they will only wean them?
From birth we wear diapers only at night and on the street. And to accustom to the pot, and even more so to ask for it has nothing to do with it, because it is not a problem. We plant ourselves on the pot at regular intervals. It may be asked, but it is very rare, rather an exception. And the essence of weaning from diapers is precisely that the child himself asks for it and endures when there is no way to go to the toilet. How to achieve this, is not yet clear, probably, later it will come.
They amaze people who claim that their children from birth ask themselves (or even go) to the potty and do not do their work in pants. And they have not received the Nobel Prize in your 3 months yet? Well you missed!
Victoria +++++, in the pursuit of “bragging” about her friends, is training children, doctors say 1.5 - 2 years, and in Europe it is delayed up to 3-4 and children grow up not as limited as ours. And our children owe everything - teeth at 6 months, walk a year, write at 8 months, maybe this is our problem and not children?