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'Toddlers Could Go Diaper-Free at 3 Months'
The Local ^ | 2 Jan 13

Posted on 01/02/2013 3:01:30 PM PST by nickcarraway

Swedish toddlers could be protected from urinary tract infections if their parents took a leaf out of Vietnam's potty training book and cut short the use of nappies, a Swedish research study infers.

Professor Anna-Lena Hellström at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg has previously studied the link between diapers and UTIs, more specifically how children who cannot completely empty their bladder run a higher risk of infection.

She has now turned her attention to potty training in Vietnam where toddlers as young as three months go diaper-free.

"Never in our wildest dreams did we imagine you could start that young," Hellström told Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper.

Hellström said she was not issuing any official recommendations to Swedish parents, but said they had the right to know that it is possible to start potty-training earlier.

Her two-year study of 47 children showed that Vietnamese parents use whistling to help their children go to the toilet.

"And once they are on the potty, the child will completely empty their bladder instead of weeing a bit now and then, which children with diapers tend to do," Hellström told DN.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Weird Stuff
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To: Popman

One of my four was like that. It was time for nursery school, and I explained to him that the diapers had to go. He was very verbal, and said “NO”!

I said “YES”, and “RIGHT NOW”.

The little pisser held his pee from very early in the morning until about 5 in the afternoon, and begged me to put on his “Pampers”, so he could go pee.

I said “NO”. “Toilet from now on, Buddy”. Much wailing, kicking, etc. After about 45 minutes, he realized I meant business, peed in the toilet and never asked for his “Pampers” (appropriately named) again.

He turned out to be an outstanding man, by the way, now 45 years old. I am very proud of him.


21 posted on 01/02/2013 4:50:19 PM PST by jacquej
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To: nickcarraway

22 posted on 01/02/2013 5:44:33 PM PST by Libloather (The epitome of civility.)
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To: nickcarraway

3 months is not toddlers

You aren’t a toddler until you can toddle.

I saw toddlers (real ones) in Nepal go diaperless and pantless and it was cold out. Made a mess everywhere they went.


23 posted on 01/02/2013 6:06:05 PM PST by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: nickcarraway; Tax-chick

Tax-chicks opinion will rule since she has had way more than me. That being said, a potty trained 3 month old? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!


24 posted on 01/02/2013 6:28:20 PM PST by momtothree
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To: nickcarraway

My mother raised 12 with 2 sets of twins and didn’t want a bunch of us in diapers at the same time. She said that I was potty trained at 9 months and that it was simple. Every two hours you take the diaper off and sit them on the potty and soon it becomes a habit. It works.
I always wonder why peole would want to wash/buy diapers for 3 years per child. I know for a while there it was considered bad for the ego or something?


25 posted on 01/03/2013 12:09:44 AM PST by tinamina
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To: bigheadfred

hole

heh


26 posted on 01/03/2013 2:06:09 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Morgana

I trained son @ 18 mos, daughter @ 14 mos. 2 yrs is too long.


27 posted on 01/03/2013 2:11:39 AM PST by ican'tbelieveit (School is prison for children who have commited the crime of being born. (attr: St_Thomas_Aquinas))
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To: jacquej
He turned out to be an outstanding man, by the way, now 45 years old. I am very proud of him.

How sweet!

28 posted on 01/03/2013 3:51:27 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: GeronL; SunkenCiv

Just so you know, I’m not living at this address any more. I just bop in to see some g-kids. I sorta kinda just handed the keys to this place, and most of my things (like the computer) to another family member, and went away. I would FReepmail you, but I am on double secret probation AGAIN.

And back to the thread. I don’t know, but I’m STILL cleaning up my kidszeduh crap. And they are adults.


29 posted on 01/03/2013 8:54:25 PM PST by bigheadfred (woggawogga)
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To: bigheadfred

lol

They should definitely be off diapers by the time they are off the ObamaCare mandated insurance coverage of 26


30 posted on 01/04/2013 11:25:12 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: GeronL

Ahh, everyone knows there must be something wrong with me. I can’t seem to kick my kids to the curb. I use the excuse I wasn’t raised that way. Anyways my daughter just got a $160 speeding ticket in the mail from Oregon. Doesn’t have the funds to pay it. I guess I’ll try to figure something out to help. Better yet, I’ll let her mother do it. I’d probably just end up getting yelled at by either or both. AGAIN. (Not that I expect to be saved getting yelled at anyhow) ;-)


31 posted on 01/04/2013 11:46:40 AM PST by bigheadfred
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To: nickcarraway
Vietnam where toddlers as young as three months go diaper-free and crap in the street.

And the paddies are fertilized with nightsoil.

Yum.

32 posted on 01/04/2013 11:51:39 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: bigheadfred

kids are a weak spot for a lot of people


33 posted on 01/04/2013 2:33:25 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: bigheadfred

That’s nothing new, toddlers typically run nekkid any time they can get away with it (not at 3 mos, but...)


34 posted on 01/04/2013 9:13:54 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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