Ay yiyi. Okay, so potty training.
Our first weekend of potty training did not go especially well. I had to be gone on Saturday morning (MRI of my back) and could not be there to help Jim as we started this process. As a result, Jim was fairly frazzled when I got back from the procedure and needed to be relieved for most of the rest of the afternoon. This was not what I had in mind. Potty training requires, in my mind and my house, the attention of both parents on the child for the weekend so that we could avoid becoming overly stressed about the process and spell each other. Since my being gone was unavoidable, and Jim had a daddy meltdown, we both spent the much of the day alone with Katie and so did not have each other to help through the frustrations. The frustrations inevitably come when she sits on the potty and does nothing and then, minutes later, pees on the floor. It was all very accidental but stressful nonetheless.
Sunday went much better. We used pull-ups at church, just in case. I didn't feel comfortable taking her to church in underwear, given our success rate of the day before. We don't want her to get confused by the use of pull-ups so we are treating them like underwear. We took her to the bathroom before and after the service and she produced both times. Using the pull-up eased my mind and it stayed drier than her underwear the day before. :) The rest of the day was also fairly easy because she wore a diaper for her nap after lunch (I'm not even thinking about THAT yet). Then, after nap we went to the pool and she wore a swim diaper and I don't really know or care if she peed in the pool. All in all, Sunday was much more relaxing.
Monday she started daycare in her big girl underpants and it has gone generally well. I have to include this photo of her first potty day sticker sheet. She got a sticker for every successfull trip to the potty. Please count the stickers
Yes, there are 13 of them. They took Katie to the potty and she produced 13 times in one day at daycare. Bless them. That was worth my whole month's payment right there. I could never take her that many times.
Fortunately, she has not gone so often since and has gone down to more like 3-5 times in a day. She does have a couple accidents a week now but nothing really bad. She has also started pooping on the potty at daycare right after nap instead of pooping in her diaper as she sleeps, what has been happening. The one major step that we need to make is her asking when she needs to go to the potty.
So, onward and forward. We are using pull-ups on the weekend for our own sanity and letting daycare deal with underwear and accidents, which is making me very happy. We will eventually move to underwear all the time but, as long as we are treating the pull ups like underwear and continuing the potty trips on the weekend, I am comfortable with the way things stand for now.
We'll check in again in a month or so and I'll let you know how it's going.
Our first weekend of potty training did not go especially well. I had to be gone on Saturday morning (MRI of my back) and could not be there to help Jim as we started this process. As a result, Jim was fairly frazzled when I got back from the procedure and needed to be relieved for most of the rest of the afternoon. This was not what I had in mind. Potty training requires, in my mind and my house, the attention of both parents on the child for the weekend so that we could avoid becoming overly stressed about the process and spell each other. Since my being gone was unavoidable, and Jim had a daddy meltdown, we both spent the much of the day alone with Katie and so did not have each other to help through the frustrations. The frustrations inevitably come when she sits on the potty and does nothing and then, minutes later, pees on the floor. It was all very accidental but stressful nonetheless.
Sunday went much better. We used pull-ups at church, just in case. I didn't feel comfortable taking her to church in underwear, given our success rate of the day before. We don't want her to get confused by the use of pull-ups so we are treating them like underwear. We took her to the bathroom before and after the service and she produced both times. Using the pull-up eased my mind and it stayed drier than her underwear the day before. :) The rest of the day was also fairly easy because she wore a diaper for her nap after lunch (I'm not even thinking about THAT yet). Then, after nap we went to the pool and she wore a swim diaper and I don't really know or care if she peed in the pool. All in all, Sunday was much more relaxing.
Monday she started daycare in her big girl underpants and it has gone generally well. I have to include this photo of her first potty day sticker sheet. She got a sticker for every successfull trip to the potty. Please count the stickers
Yes, there are 13 of them. They took Katie to the potty and she produced 13 times in one day at daycare. Bless them. That was worth my whole month's payment right there. I could never take her that many times.
Fortunately, she has not gone so often since and has gone down to more like 3-5 times in a day. She does have a couple accidents a week now but nothing really bad. She has also started pooping on the potty at daycare right after nap instead of pooping in her diaper as she sleeps, what has been happening. The one major step that we need to make is her asking when she needs to go to the potty.
So, onward and forward. We are using pull-ups on the weekend for our own sanity and letting daycare deal with underwear and accidents, which is making me very happy. We will eventually move to underwear all the time but, as long as we are treating the pull ups like underwear and continuing the potty trips on the weekend, I am comfortable with the way things stand for now.
We'll check in again in a month or so and I'll let you know how it's going.
1 comment:
yeah!!!! I love the sticker chart especially. One to keep for the baby/watch me grow book. I am just happy that ben is wanting to sit on the potty as of Wed this week. We are SOOOOO long away from where you are, but you give me hope!
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