Training Pants
Today, one of the other mamma's at the Bambina's nido bumped into me in the street. "I need to know where you buy the special panties for the Bambina", she asks. "Special panties?" I ask, a look of bewilderment crosses my face. "Yes. Francesca (the educatrice at the nido) says that the Bambina has some underwear that are fantasticha for potty training."
"Ah! The training pants!" Now, it is clear. The Bambina has some cloth training pants that I put her in all the time when she turned two and was learning to go on the potty. You can't get them in Italy (or France, or anywhere else in continental Europe, that I know of), so my sister sent them to me from Canada. Because the training pants are basically just extra thick underwear, the Bambina still wears them once in a while as regular underwear just because they are comfortable.
So I explained to the mamma that you can't buy them here but that I would be happy to give her the Bambina's to use, since the Bambina doesn't need them anymore. We have about eight or nine pairs.
The mamma looked really confused, and then said "Oh, you mean you can wash them?"
I think she was hoping that we North Americans had invented some kind of new-fangled disposible pull-up that succeeded in toilet training where Huggies and Pampers pull-ups had hopelessly failed.
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Do they really not have cloth training pants here? What do they use instead?
Just underwear or bare bottom, I guess. Or the disposible pullups but they are just like diapers and don't work so well for potty learning.
Great blog! I love the view from your kitchen window. Thanks for lnking up & your comment on my blog! I'm currently not updating but who knows I might be back soon .. ;) We have a bunch of those training pants as well, got a relative of ours buy them in the U.S. but then discovered that they are from Sweden (Imse Vimse Sweden) so I could've asked my family there to buy them for us (we are spread all over the world, hehe). :)
You can find lightly padded underwear in stores, pharmacies or the market, but most people use regular coton undies or the disposable pull-ups. I ave never seen anyone with a bare bottom, I think Italian moms would freak about germs and 'prender freddo'! :)
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