How to Choose a Potty for Your Baby
To meet the needs of supporting your baby’s toilet training process, convenient portable potties have been introduced with diverse designs, models, and features. Therefore, to choose a potty that is suitable for your baby, please note the following criteria.
1. Design and Model
Currently, there are two basic potty designs on the market: potty seats and potty chairs. A potty seat is a portable potty designed to fit the size of the toilet to help your baby learn to go to the bathroom like mom and dad. This type of potty is compact, easy to store and move, but quite dangerous for very young children. Parents should consider choosing a potty seat for children from 3 to 4 years old and up to ensure safety.
Baby potty training
A potty chair is a product designed to simulate a toilet bowl used separately from the restroom. The design of the potty chair includes a seat, backrest, and a removable waste container for cleaning. The advantages of this product are that it is small, convenient, clean, and extremely safe. Babies from 9 months old and up can completely use a potty chair.
2. Material
The main material used to make potties for children is ABS plastic. You should choose a potty with a clear origin and certificate of material inspection to limit irritation and ensure the safety of your beloved baby’s health.
3. Safety
Potties for babies will have different designs depending on their age. For babies who are just learning to sit, potties with backrests and armrests will be a safe choice, while older children will be suitable for potty chairs. Parents should consider safety factors such as the floor grip of the potty base, the backrest of the potty, or the slipperiness to avoid slipping and causing danger to children when using the potty.
4. Product Size
Today’s potty products are extremely diverse in size and design. Some potty chairs are quite large and bulky, often with elaborate and sturdy designs suitable for fixed use at home. Smaller potty products such as potty seats or portable potty chairs with lengths ranging from 20cm to 35cm are often easy to store and carry on long trips. Therefore, depending on the purpose of use, you should choose the appropriate potty size.
5. Note to Choose According to the Baby’s Gender
Boys and girls often have different preferences for the design and color of toys. The same goes for potties. Parents should pay attention to products with intuitive, simple, and easy-to-use designs when buying a potty for a boy. Conversely, potty products for girls often have soft designs with feminine tones such as blue, pink, and elaborate designs, which will be a suitable choice to help your baby feel comfortable when using them.
The Best Potties for Babies Today
Let’s take a look at the most popular products today.
1. Potties for Girls
– Chicco Toilet Seat, Sky Blue
The Chicco Toilet Seat in Sky Blue is a portable potty chair made primarily of high-quality ABS plastic and soft synthetic leather for a comfortable experience. Both sides of the seat have handles for easy grip.
The product has a quite pretty and elegant design with the combination of two harmonious blue and white tones. The potty is also easily compatible with many different types of toilet seats due to its large and sturdy size. Children from 2 to 4 years old will be very excited when their mother buys them this super cute Chicco toilet seat.
Chicco Toilet Seat
– Song Long 2019 Duck Potty
Song Long is a purely Vietnamese brand that provides baby care products. With a simple monolithic structure, the Song Long duck potty is a product for children from 9 to 36 months old that is favored by many parents.
The special feature of the potty is that the waste container is connected to the potty body by a sliding groove, making it easier for parents to clean. Besides the lid that keeps the potty surface clean, the product also has a handle shaped like a cute duck head to help the baby focus when using it.
– Farlin Blue Toilet Training Seat
As a brand that favors simplicity, Farlin always tries to minimize the functions of its products. The Farlin toilet training seat has an intuitive design with the seat surrounded by a low backrest and a wide ring suitable for many different types of toilets. The product is suitable for children from 12 months and up.
The disadvantage of this Farlin toilet training seat is that it does not have handles and a support base, so parents must always watch over to ensure the child’s safety.
– Song Long Musical Rabbit Potty
The Song Long musical rabbit potty is a portable potty chair with a relatively large size and a bright, eye-catching design suitable for children from 9 months and up. The potty is made of high-quality plastic with a spacious and sturdy seat to help the baby always feel safe when using it.
The highlight of the Song Long musical rabbit potty is the integrated music player that automatically switches songs when the baby presses the power button. The cheerful melodies will attract the baby’s attention and help them focus more when going to the bathroom.
– Nhựa Chợ Lớn K.1 Toilet Seat for Babies
As a toilet seat cover product, the Nhựa Chợ Lớn toilet seat has a fairly simple design with a rim for placing the potty and a curved seat to fit the body to provide the most comfortable feeling when the baby sits on the potty. The two sides of the potty are two handles that make it easy for the mother to lift the potty up and put it away when not in use or as a support point for the baby to hold.
2. Potties for Boys
– Combi Orange Potty Seat
Combi is a leading brand specializing in providing products for newborns. With a smart design that hugs the baby’s body curves, the orange Combi potty seat is a perfect choice for babies from 12 months and up.
The advantage of the Combi potty product is its compact size, eye-catching color, and pretty, modern design suitable for installation with many different types of toilet bowls, making it easy for the baby to use. The handle provides a firm grip, limiting falls to ensure optimal safety for the baby.
– Combi Step up Potty (Green)
As one of the best-selling potty products from the Combi brand, the Step up potty has a quite modern design with a compact and mobile body. While the base is combined with a removable waste tray, the potty lid is attached to the body by a rotating shaft for easy opening and closing. Made of BPA-free plastic, the Combi Step up potty is the perfect choice for babies of all ages.
– Combi Orange Potty 106238
Designed to be extremely modern, the orange Combi potty makes a strong visual impression because the curved seat follows the baby’s body curves, providing maximum comfort when using it. The simple and lightweight handle helps the baby hold on tight, preventing shifting and falling when using the potty.
With a detachable structure, you can completely use the potty lid to replace the mobile potty insert and install it on the toilet seat in the simplest way. The potty body can be used as a footrest when the baby uses the toilet.
Combi Orange Potty
– Puku Basic Potty
Puku is a Taiwanese brand with pretty and eye-catching product designs. The Puku potty has a fairly solid monolithic structure with a spill-proof base made of high-quality PP plastic for maximum comfort when using.
The Puku basic potty has a fairly small and simple size, so you only need to place the baby on the potty and wash it clean after use. The potty also has a handle to help small children focus and avoid losing balance. The Puku potty is a perfect choice for children under 14kg.
– KidsKit 3-in-1 Toilet
The 3-in-1 toilet is a KidsKit multifunctional potty product with a structure consisting of many details suitable for children from 12 months old and up. The potty includes a seat, a waste container, a support frame for when the baby sits on the potty, and a ladder for when installing the potty with the toilet. Depending on the purpose of use, parents should install the product accordingly.
