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>>What gave you the idea to use diapers, especially with >>everyone so skeptical at first? I get the sense >>everyone in my town would have also reacted >>dismissively. How did you deal with school or other >>events/activities as they were growing up? > >The youngest was 3, wore diapers at night and pull-ups >during the day but had no interest in using the potty. >Her sister was about to start school in a few months, >and had been out of night-time pull-ups for maybe a >year, but with night accidents about once a week or >week and half, and the occasional daytime accident >(which was usually because she was too busy playing to >pay attention to her toilet needs). > >We had a talk with the oldest daughter about having to >keep her clothes dry when she'd start school, and told >her she would have to use her sister's pull-ups all >the time until she could stay dry, in preparation for >starting 1st grade. >Wearing pull-ups seemed to make her care even less >about going to the toilet, and her accidents increased >- both day and night. > >Since the youngest had no interest in potty training, >we put her back in ordinary diapers - and once her >sister used up the pull-ups package we put her back in >diapers as well. >She was incredibly upset at being laid on her sister's >changing table and put back in baby diapers, and we >often had to give her some smacks on her bottom before >taping it on to stop her from resisting for the first >weeks. > >When she started school, we told them she probably had >some hormone imbalance or stress incontinence and >explained the problems we had with her wetting at >home, at this point she had been wearing diapers >around the clock again and shown as little interest in >the toilet as her little sister. >We had her in diapers for the first few days at school >until they asked if she could wear a pull-up as it >would make things easier there. We obliged and got a >small pack of pull-ups, and sent her to school in them >the next day - but they couldn't hold as much and she >had to change three or four times a day, even then >they still leaked some times. >We quickly learned that was on good so when the >package was gone, it was back to diapers at school and >the school nurse helped changing her again. >Some of the older kids teased her a bit once they >found out, but the teachers quickly put a stop to the >most of it. > >Because changing diapers was much less work than >constantly changing and washing clothes, bedding and >needing to put thick blankets on the couch all the >time, we told the kids that they would not be potty >trained and would have to use their diapers. The >youngest was happy about it, and the oldest was >agreeable as well, since it meant she didn't have to >stop playing to go pee. >The youngest didn't mind pooping her diaper, but the >older one had some reservations against doing it in >her diaper on purpose - which is why we had to make >diaper changes a nice thing for her when she was good.

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