{"id":955,"date":"2025-05-06T04:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T04:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newdadsewingschool.com\/wordpress\/?p=955"},"modified":"2025-05-06T04:18:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T04:18:59","slug":"sew-a-washable-toddler-potty-training-car-seat-liner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newdadsewingschool.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/sew-a-washable-toddler-potty-training-car-seat-liner\/","title":{"rendered":"Sew a Washable Toddler Potty Training Car Seat Liner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This will save you time and money not needing to buy and change out potty pads in case of accidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why a Washable Potty Training Car Seat Liner?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One of the stressful things I\u2019ve found about potty training is keeping your car seat dry. With a toddler, we  try to maintain a rhythm of going potty before we leave and going when we get somewhere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in the hustle and bustle of daily life it\u2019s easy to forget. And for me with a toddler it’s a blessing to even be able to get out the door. So there is always the risk that we forget and there’s an accident. The redundancy then is using something like a puppy pad on the car seat. This has worked well. The tricky part with this is that it will often get messy with snack crumbs, bunch up and there’s the environmental issue of throwing it away if it does get used. And if it does get used, we take it out to clean or change then forget to put a new one in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it\u2019s always that one time you forget that it happens. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you ever had to take a cover off a car seat to wash it? It is a major hassle. It\u2019s something that you want to avoid doing a lot. Our solution for avoiding soiling the car seat is to use the above noted puppy pads. But one: using puppy pads, while easy to fit into the car seat, get bunched up and can be very bulky and unsightly. And two: somehow more crumbs get accumulated in the car seat with the puppy pad in the car seat than if there were no pad at all. Three: it costs money to buy and change them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What to do to protect the car seat from accidents?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

So my solution here is to design and sew my own washable car seat potty training mat. This involved mapping out the curves of the car seat and making a fabric mat that would fit in it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was a great tutorial I found before my daughter was born for sewing a burp cloth with a plastic shield<\/a> in between to prevent leak-through. So I decided to add this shield in the middle of mine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gotcha with measuring out the shape of the car seat potty mat were the sections for the shoulder straps and the \u201ccrotch strap\u201d as the car seat manual calls it. So I designed the mat to fit around this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took a couple iterations to get the fit. But I think I got a good universal fit. We have two  car seats from different brands so I needed it to fit both. Our car seats are the adjustable kind that you can change as your kid gets bigger. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Materials to Sew the Washable Car Seat Liner<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n