Hopefully this is our Final potty training chapter. If not, I will write Volume 2:)
Sonali's daycare takes all the credit for her training. Her teacher is awesome and she started by seating her in the potty every 2 hours. In about 3 weeks, she was completely potty trained and got the concept.
I was too chicken to let her go without diapers at home and the few times I tried initially, she had some accidents and I got worried. But soon after, she asked to go to the potty herself and her diaper stayed dry without accidents. Now she is out of diapers and insists on not wearing them at all!. Yoho!
Nighttime -She goes before her sleep to the potty and stays dry in the mornings too. I am paranoid about the sheets to let her sleep witout diapers, so I put on a pair of pullups after she sleeps. But so far, nothing on it and she is dry. Goes in the morning in her potty. So one of these days Iwill gather the courage to take those pull ups off too.
We have been travelling and she did great on the journey about her potty training ( took it way more seriously than I did:) ).. but I will wait for a whole week to declare complete success. So far it seems to be going the right way.
Good Luck to all the moms who are in the process. Daycares rock for this reason atleast:)
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Potty Training - Chapter 2
No, I did not get very far with it but thought I'll blog my failed attempts , so I'll remember them later
The potty is still sitting in our bathroom, but now my daughter uses it.. Yay!. How?
Everytime I use my potty, she likes to sit on it ( with clothes AND diaper on) and DO NOTHING. When I am done, she is also done and hurries out of the restroom before me and wants to close the door behind her. A few times I have seen the door shut on my face! Dont like the training this early on I'd say:)
Her constant answer to the question: " Do you want to go in the potty" is a resounding "NO".
Oh I hear the daycare does a good job of potty training.. Really ? Tell me its true for that seems to be my first, last and only hope.
Good luck to me!
The potty is still sitting in our bathroom, but now my daughter uses it.. Yay!. How?
Everytime I use my potty, she likes to sit on it ( with clothes AND diaper on) and DO NOTHING. When I am done, she is also done and hurries out of the restroom before me and wants to close the door behind her. A few times I have seen the door shut on my face! Dont like the training this early on I'd say:)
Her constant answer to the question: " Do you want to go in the potty" is a resounding "NO".
Oh I hear the daycare does a good job of potty training.. Really ? Tell me its true for that seems to be my first, last and only hope.
Good luck to me!
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Potty Training - Chapter 1
Just like all first time moms ( well..ok, some first time moms), I panic for a variety of reasons in the life of my toddler. So naturally, when my daughter had her first diaper rash a few weeks back, I was a panic-monster. At first, I tried to be cool , but when I saw it was not getting any better with her creams, I had it. The fact that it turned out to be fungal dint really help much to ease my tension!
I blamed myself for neglect, blamed my husband more for his, I blamed the concept of diapers, the diaper company, the store that sold these diapers and the list went on. I dint spare anyone :). I googled, read all about diaper rashes, went onto read forums about cloth diapers users and the goodness of getting babies potty trained early on.
Now I was excited and motivated. Well. if some moms out there can get their babies potty trained before 12 months, I should be able to.. especially when I have a 3 month time advantage over them. So started my PT obsession.
I took my little one and all my optimism to babiesrus. I pulled out 3 different potty seats and started examining them. My daughter got very excited as well and started running from one seat to another. Just when I started to pull the 4th one from the shelf, I heard a sound next to me. I turn to see my daughter pushing one of the potty seats and park it right at end of the aisle, comfortably blocking any little space for people to pass by. I also noticed that she was making a " brrrrrr" sound that she does to demonstrate a car ride. That should have been my first clue:) but I dint catch it.
I managed to bring a seat back home. So I put it in the living room and show her to sit on it. She smiles at me and I think to myself " this seems easier than I thought ". I clap to signify her achievement, and she claps as well. As I am going over the next steps in my mind, I see her stand up and run towards her toys. She pulls her favourite doll , Monali and runs back with her to the potty. I was still optimistic since I thought she needed company to remember the rules:) What she did next sealed any little hope I had in this process. She put her doll flat across the potty seat , patted her and began to sing to her!
The seat is now sitting in our bathroom, bright and pink, starting at me in a condescending way! I do hope I can get to it someday and then I can have the last laugh, but for now everyone else is definitely having more fun.
I blamed myself for neglect, blamed my husband more for his, I blamed the concept of diapers, the diaper company, the store that sold these diapers and the list went on. I dint spare anyone :). I googled, read all about diaper rashes, went onto read forums about cloth diapers users and the goodness of getting babies potty trained early on.
Now I was excited and motivated. Well. if some moms out there can get their babies potty trained before 12 months, I should be able to.. especially when I have a 3 month time advantage over them. So started my PT obsession.
I took my little one and all my optimism to babiesrus. I pulled out 3 different potty seats and started examining them. My daughter got very excited as well and started running from one seat to another. Just when I started to pull the 4th one from the shelf, I heard a sound next to me. I turn to see my daughter pushing one of the potty seats and park it right at end of the aisle, comfortably blocking any little space for people to pass by. I also noticed that she was making a " brrrrrr" sound that she does to demonstrate a car ride. That should have been my first clue:) but I dint catch it.
I managed to bring a seat back home. So I put it in the living room and show her to sit on it. She smiles at me and I think to myself " this seems easier than I thought ". I clap to signify her achievement, and she claps as well. As I am going over the next steps in my mind, I see her stand up and run towards her toys. She pulls her favourite doll , Monali and runs back with her to the potty. I was still optimistic since I thought she needed company to remember the rules:) What she did next sealed any little hope I had in this process. She put her doll flat across the potty seat , patted her and began to sing to her!
The seat is now sitting in our bathroom, bright and pink, starting at me in a condescending way! I do hope I can get to it someday and then I can have the last laugh, but for now everyone else is definitely having more fun.
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