One year and five months old Ding Ding is a handsome little boy. Ding Ding’s mother thinks that the baby is still small and there is nothing wrong with using diapers all day long, but Ding Ding’s grandmother is not happy about it, thinking that it is not normal to use diapers even though he is so old, and this will make the baby dependent and always learn not to hold the urine to go to the toilet. So, is Ding Ding’s mother’s view right or is it Ding Ding’s grandmother’s view right? Does the use of diapers really affect the baby’s ability to hold the urine? Generally speaking, babies usually do not have control over their bowel movements and urination until they are about 3 years old, and before that, especially before they are one and a half years old, they have limited control over their bowel movements. This is due to the fact that babies’ brains are not yet well developed and their ability to inhibit the basic urinary centers is weak, and the urethral and anal sphincters, which control bowel movements, are not yet mature. In other words, even if you don’t wear diapers, your baby will have to pee because it is determined by physical development. As many parenting experts say, if you are successful, it’s not that your baby is holding the urine, it may simply be that you are finding the right time for your baby to urinate, such as after drinking milk or waking up from bed. But are diapers really not going to affect your baby’s ability to hold the urine at all? Firstly, they absorb water quickly, secondly, the surface is dry, and apart from the fact that the diaper bag is a bit heavy, the baby does not suffer too much discomfort. Let’s see what happens when babies don’t wear diapers. But as your baby grows up, he or she will find it uncomfortable to pull on the wet pants. If you add careful guidance from adults, it is possible for your baby to learn to hold the urine and go to the designated place for convenience. It is not true that the sooner you give your baby a wee, the sooner he or she will learn to wee on his or her own and get out of diapers. If your baby is older and is still in diapers around the clock, he or she may learn to hold his or her urine later than if he or she is not in diapers, and although he or she may not learn to urinate and defecate on his or her own until age 3, he or she can develop good habits of urination and defecation. When can babies stop using diapers? Currently, new mothers in China are more receptive to the Western view of parenting, that is, they do not easily diaper their children, believing that this will not only cause adverse physical effects such as anal fissures and frequent urination, but will also cause psychological burdens to the child and affect the parent-child relationship. But just as we believe in the Western view of parenting, the West has also started to learn some traditional things from us, because Western children who have long been used to diapers have become very resistant to the process of bowel training, and Chinese style urination has started to quietly become popular. It is recommended that we can combine the East and the West, and try to use diapers before one and a half years old, especially before one year old, so that the baby can poop and pee as he wants, without causing psychological burden, and can sleep well. After one and a half years old, you can try to remove the diapers during the day and train your child to pee in the potty or toilet, as pediatrician Dr. Zhang Silai said, but you still need to use diapers at night, and gradually remove the nighttime diapers as your child’s ability to control urination increases.