No More Diapers for Me!

I have my reasons why I thought this day wouldn’t come for several more months. If not years.

We’d have a day or two where Maddie would ask to go potty, and would be really good about going only in the toilet. But after that day or two passed, she’d be right back to acting like diapers were her forever friend.

She teased us all last Spring. This “good potty business for a day or two” pattern repeated itself several times. Her teachers in her little 2 year old preschool program asked me to send her in Pull-Ups® because a bunch of kids in her class were training or had trained, and they figured it would help her.

We had a few good runs over the summer where she’d be perfect for 10-14 days, but then would fall off the potty wagon and be back to wetting constantly (and not caring that she was wet). I kept thanking my lucky stars that I registered her at 2 preschools – one that required kids to be fully trained and another where it didn’t matter.

In late July, Maddie turned 3 and was still wearing diapers.

But all of a sudden? We started on another “streak” of good potty behavior and this time it stuck!

Just a few days before preschool started, Maddie was wearing undies all day, every day. Because her school was going to be new to her and she’d also be napping there, I sent her in Pull-Ups® the first few days. She treated them just like underwear and wore underwear whenever she was at home.

By the second week of school, she wore underwear all the time, keeping her Pull-Ups® only for her naps.

For our trip to Chattanooga, she wore Pull-Ups® there, too. The car ride was 5 hours long one way, and I was worried that and the excitement of the Aquarium and Children’s Museum would be too much for her. But she had perfect potty days the entire trip.

I didn’t use Pull-Ups® with Kate because when she trained, we were at home all the time. We had just moved from New Hampshire to Tennessee and I had 7 week old colicky newborn Madelyn keeping me busy.

But when it came time to train Maddie? All that was different.

Any parent of more than 1 kid knows that how you do things with the first child is not necessarily how you’ll handle those same issues with your second (or third or fourth). We now have places to go and things to see; no staying home until I was confident Maddie was potty trustworthy. So Pull-Ups® were our perfect “in between” solution.

Pull-Ups® Training Pants read about our potty training trials and contacted me about their new Cars2 design (for boys) and potty timer “watch”.

We did not use the Potty Timer while training, but it’s a pretty cool concept.

This little reminder “watch” includes music, a flashing light, vibration and recordable message from mom.

Maddie ADORES her "watch"!

Kid #2 was definitely a much longer potty training process for us as compared to Kid #1. Either way, I’m just so happy that we went from this look:

Princess Castle Booty

to this one:

Cinderella Booty

I’m also happy to be giving away the same potty training kit as I received.

The winner of the giveaway will receive a Pull-Ups® Potty Training Kit that includes:

• Pull-Ups® Potty Training Timer
• Pull-Ups® training pants with Disney designs
• $25 VISA gift card to purchase potty training rewards

Boys will receive Cars2 Pull-Ups® and girls will receive Disney Princess Pull-Ups®.

The giveaway will run through Sunday, September 18th at midnight. Winner will be notified via Twitter and email. Please leave a separate comment for each entry.

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Pull-Ups® training pants provided me with a Pull-Ups® Potty Training Kit to conduct a reader giveaway. However, my opinions on the products are entirely my own and I have not been paid to publish positive sentiments towards Pull-Ups® or their products.

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