Safety 1St Comfy Cushy 3-in-1 Potty
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Baby Products Reviews of Safety 1St Comfy Cushy 3-in-1 Potty
Customer Review: Number one reason to get this potty: the soft cup for boys
Summary: 4 Stars
I. THE FOAM SEAT
II. THE SOFT CUP
EXTRA: URINAL MODE?
THE FOAM SEAT
I was shocked to see all the 1-star reviews. I sympathize, and I would not say that they are totally wrong about the foam seat, which seems to be the reason for the low ratings.
I would call the seat material more of a "coated foam". Over time, the child's urine may degrade the coating. However, in my experience, there is no retention of moisture or odor. We promptly rinse both the seat and the pot after our son uses it.
Now we are potty-trained, but we use the adapter when he sits on the regular toilet. This saves us from cleaning up the pot.
THE SOFT CUP
When we were preparing for potty training, a lecturer told us to get rid of the cup because of widespread reports of injury to boys. (A quick google failed to find these reports, however.) We had already bought this potty, but I was glad to know that the cup is part of the foam seat and is very soft. So, you get the cup for directing the pee, but the risk of injury is virtually nil. For us, it's no cause for concern: we use the body of the potty for a stool and the adapter and foam seat on the toilet, and my son can seat himself.
For these reasons, I give this product 4 stars, after a deduction of 1 star for the foam issue.
Overall, I recommend this potty. In fact, I would say that parents of boys should not get any potty or adapter with a plastic cup.
EXTRA: URINAL MODE?
Without the foam seat on the pot portion, the pot can be placed on the adapter in a "wrong" fashion (angled, not properly/fully inserted). For boys, this allows for a "urinal mode", which makes it fun for a boy to use "just like Daddy". It also prevents "overshoot" when he pees while standing.
Customer Review: Soft seat is a sponge for urine!
Summary: 1 Stars
I considered several potty seats before purchasing this one for my son. While searching for a potty chair for my son, my main concern was the "deflector". Some chairs had deflectors that are hard plastic, & I was concerned that he might hurt his "little manhood" when sitting if he sat on the deflector. Other seats had deflectors that were hinged to flip down for girls, & I figured he'd be tempted to play with it while he was doing his business, or that it would flip down on it's own as he was trying to sit. When I found the Safety 1st Comfy Cushy 3-in-1 Potty, I thought I had found the perfect solution. Since it's soft it wouldn't hurt him if he accidently sat on the deflector, but after only 2 months of use I'm searching for another potty. Why? The soft blue ring is getting saturated with urine...yuck! I figured that urine might get under the ring & expected it to be a little bit of a nuisance while cleaning, but I never considered that the urine would soak into the ring. I just assumed that the ring was waterproof, but it's not. The underneath side of the deflector & around the front of the ring is turning an ugly brown & there is even one spot that looks like mildew! As other reviewers have stated, it won't clean out. I've tried soap/water & Clorox wipes. When I dump the potty, I have to take tissue & "squeeze" the ring to get most of the urine out, but it won't come completely clean. Ugh...I wish I'd known this before I bought this potty. My "1 star" rating probably only applies for use with boys. I really think it would be a good potty for girls. I like that the top ring is removable & can be used on a grown up toilet & that it can also be used as a step stool. Unfortunately, I think it will become a permanent "step stool" in our house, if I can find a suitable "potty" replacement. The search continues.Customer Review: Great first potty to use early!
Summary: 5 Stars
We started using this potty for my 10 month old son. We have a potty ring to put on the toilet when he's a bit bigger. Potty chairs are made to fit babies not big kids. If you don't want to start potty training until 2-3 you REALLY should read Diaper-Free Before 3: The Healthier Way to Toilet Train and Help Your Child Out of Diapers Sooner. Now to the specifications of the potty:
-The seat is way soft and we have NO issue with it soaking up liquids-I wash it immediately after my son goes potty. I always let the pieces dry after my son goes potty without flipping the lid down-maybe that's the difference to keep it from holding water in the seat?
-The splash shield works fine as long as you make sure a little boy's thing is pointed down (just like you need to in diapers)
-The bowl isn't huge but it's round so it makes it easy to wipe out. I recommend having a Mini Shower Diaper Sprayer (although if you look around you can get it cheaper). I dump poop into the toilet and use this to spray out the bowl in to the toilet (the sprayer is also great for spraying blowouts, cloth diapers, food off onesies and bibs, etc).
-It seems like it would make a sturdy stool. We haven't used it as one yet but it seems sturdy.
-The seat looks like it would fit a baby under 2 best
-Only problem I see with it is that my 11 month old's feet don't touch the ground yet so I do need to put something under his feet to help with bowel movements.
Customer Review: tiny pee sponge
Summary: 1 Stars
My son is 13 months old, and I bought him the "3-in-1" potty just to have it around until he was ready to use it (the box says 18 months). The seat is much too small, and I believe the other reviewers who said it soaks up urine. Soft toilet seats have been around since the 1500s (yep, I looked it up), and so one would assume Safety First would have used the latest technology when designing their potty chair. As in, some kind (any kind) of waterproof layer that protects the padding from moisture. If you already bought this seat, and can't take it back, you can always make an improved ring by cutting a hole in a washable pillow.
I have four other Safety 1st products in my home right now, and they are all about as ...worthless, disappointing, frustrating... as this seat.
FYI: The cabinet latches are cheap and flimsy. My son took off the latch to the oven door three days after I put it on (he wiggled it, pulled it, and the foam tape came off of the oven door AND the latch itself - and this is while the oven was cold). The toilet lock stuck to the lid just fine, but didn't stick to the side of the bowl. I thought maybe the toilet was too curved or slick for the lock, so I bought some more foam tape and tried it on our other toilet - which was an even worse fit.
Since I have yet to find anything made by Safety 1st that isn't cheap crap, I think I'm done with this brand.
Customer Review: Decent concept w/ the soft seat, but it needs to be bigger...
Summary: 3 Stars
First off, the lid to our seat does not look like this - it's deeper, not as flat, and it's not smooth, either. Definitely not comfortable to lean back against. I rolled up a bathtowel and wedged it b/t the back of the seat and the lid for comfort, and my 2yo was satisfied with that.
It appears that this seat is soft and comfortable for my 2yo (he is 25 months old) to sit on, and the base is pretty stable; however, if you use the blue seat with the guard facing up ("boy side"), the length of the seat is too small for him - if he's sitting back far enough to use the guard, his bottom is up on the blue seat, which means he really wouldn't be able to go #2 on it. Even if you flip it over "girl side", he barely clears it if his bottom is positioned properly over the opening, and that is even if he holds his penis down to direct the stream. In a nutshell, it's simply too small of a seat to be practical. Perhaps if my son weren't 3 feet tall, maybe? Not sure.
I will say that its use as a step stool has been quite handy, though. Then again, as I said before, the lid on ours doesn't look like the one in the picture - the one in the picture looks kind of flimsy for step-stool purposes.
I have not yet had any experiences with the seat soaking up urine or smelling, but we have only begun to potty train. In a few months, I might be singing a different tune.