Clove’s mother recently received a question from a mother:
The baby is going to be one year old. Her mother-in-law has prepared a lot of small clothes, including lovely underpants, and her husband has bought a lot of diapers.
The husband thinks that the baby should not wear underpants, which is convenient to keep the small fart ventilated and dry and is not easy to have skin problems. However, her mother-in-law felt that wearing underpants to keep warm was afraid that the baby would catch cold.
I’m a little confused. Should what transition from diapers to cotton underwear?
When can babies wear underwear? How to choose underwear for your baby? Mothers’ doubts about their baby’s underwear can be answered here.
How old can the baby wear underwear?
Generally, when the baby is 1.5 to 2 years old, you can consider wearing cotton underpants for the baby when the following situations occur:
- Babies can express their needs for defecation and urination. The change of diapers is not as frequent as before, and the change interval is gradually prolonged to more than 3 h; When the baby plays, he can stop and sit firmly on the small toilet to go to the toilet.
What are the benefits of wearing underpants for your baby?
1. It is helpful for the healthy development of baby’s organs.
Underpants provide good physical protection and reduce the irritation of friction of outer pants to baby’s skin.
Underpants protect not only the skin, but also the hygiene of the baby’s private parts, especially the female baby, which needs more comprehensive protection to reduce urinary tract infection.
In addition, underpants can also play a certain role in keeping warm. Children’s body temperature regulation is not as perfect as that of adults, and they are easy to catch cold, especially in the lower abdomen. The warm-keeping effect of cotton underpants can effectively solve this problem.
2. It is helpful for the baby’s mental health.
Wearing underpants as soon as possible can help the baby to establish gender awareness and help the baby’s mental health growth.
In addition, babies also like to explore their own bodies. Wearing underpants can prevent babies from playing with their reproductive organs to a certain extent, promote mental health, and help babies to establish awareness of [these parts cannot be touched by others] and enhance their awareness of self-protection.
3. Help your baby to form good living habits,
With the transition from diapers to underpants, it will help the baby realize that going to the toilet requires going to a specific place and taking off his pants.
Put on your baby’s favorite underpants, and the baby will not want to dirty the pants. This psychological effect is more conducive to the formation of good toilet habits.
How to choose suitable underwear for your baby?
It is very important to choose suitable underwear for your baby:
- In terms of materials, cotton underpants should be selected for the baby to better protect the baby’s immature skin and reduce allergy and irritation. In color, it is best to be white or light. If you take care of your baby’s mood, you can choose cartoon images that your child likes on the outer layer of your underwear, so that your baby can easily accept them and wear them voluntarily. In terms of size, one must choose underpants of appropriate size. If the baby feels uncomfortable, he will refuse to wear it, and if the baby feels loose, it will affect his walking. In terms of style, there is no special emphasis, triangle or square angle can be used.
There is no essential difference between male and female babies in the choice of underwear, so it is enough to choose underwear suitable for babies according to the above principles.
How to clean the baby’s underwear?
The hygiene of the baby’s underwear must be guaranteed. It is best to change it every day. The baby’s underwear washing liquid without irritation should be used to rinse it thoroughly and cleanly.
Regarding the disinfection of underpants, it is recommended to adopt physical methods. For example, boiling method plus ultraviolet radiation, that is, sun drying, or the method of clothes disinfection machine.
Disinfectants are not recommended to reduce the possibility of chemicals remaining on baby’s clothes.