May 22nd, 2010
Potette: Potty on the Go
The EC Group here in Montreal recently was discussing on-line the pros and cons of the Potette portable potty. It’s a foldable plastic potty you could easily throw into your bag and take with you anywhere. The only problem is, the liners are disposable (recently I saw SCENTED potette liners – YUCK!) which adds up to a lot of waste for just a little tinkling.
So I shared how we creatively use our potette. I have a wet bag that I put in place of the disposable liners. In it there is a pre-fold cloth diaper.
Once finished, you zip up the wet bag & take the cloth diaper home to launder.
We do have some disposition liners – they are handy if you are travelling and laundry cannot be done. Still, we try to stay in hotels with laundry so that the use of the liners is kept to a minimum. Also, we normally bring a baby bjorn potty for over night trips.
I should point out that my girls don’t poo on the go…that would probably be a different story with taking the wet bag home!! But I would probably in that instance find a toilet where I could flush down the waste. :)
The potette has been a wonderful product for us, we have been using it since Sophie was about 9 months old. It’s great for us ECing moms, and now that Sophie is 2 and a half, she is still quite afraid of public washrooms. So if she will not go to a regular toilet she can simply potty on the go in our van. :)
