So for something like 3 ish weeks we have been potty training dear lily. She took a weekend off the first week but since then we’ve been hard at it.
I did the ole timer method, every 15 minutes the first day, every 15 minutes the second day…lets try 20, no 15 is still good….some days I just ask at random intervals, but we often find a timer is still most helpful for the darling. She’s not always in the same plane of existence as the rest of us and I think that is not helping her inher pursuit of potty training-ness.
Anyway, eventually I felt like having a diaper on her at night was confusing her. she seemed agitated by this, so despite the fact that accidents abound during the day and that MORE laundry was inevitable, I decided to go all in, which is how I trained bruce anyway.
Here’s the lowdown. Lily is totally able to exercise bladder control- when we are out. no really. when we are out of the house, she NEVER has an accident, even if it is for 2 hours. I don’t let her fill up on drinks, and we do occasionally sit on potties in grocery stores, the library etc. She once actually ASKED to go pee at bj’s and then proceeded to hold it all the way across the building to the restroom and actually pee in the potty.
angels sung. it was beautiful.
at home she might wet her pants 4 times in one morning easily. no joke. especially if I haven’t limited her drink intake, because, the girl drinks like a sailor (a English tea slurping sailor, but a sailor nonetheless). But still, its nutty. She has also occasionally poops in the undies. This is the worst thing ever. I just can’t hack it. ewwwwwwwThe best was the time we came home from errands, I ran her immediately to the potty, she peed- yeah much rejoicing. Then I went back out to get the groceries, feeling very proud of us. I come back in to find her IN THE BATHROOM having pooped in her pants. WHY WHY WHY.
I do not know, go ask your dad…..
Overnight has had mixed results. she was, if I recall right, just damp the first night, then soaked practically head to toe two nights and then bone dry this morning. And today, no accidents at all. a blessed miracle.
but she has had no accident days before then the next day she will pee herself 4 times. it’s bizarre. And a bit stressful.
I had been promising that after 2 no accident days we could go out to tea together to celebrate. I’ve backed this down to 1, because, well 2 days IN A ROW seemed too tricky. oiy. so technically I think I owe her a tea outing after today.
The girl does love her undies though. She is hysterical. Even her big old-lady- depends-like overnight gerber cloth undies seem awesome to her. I mean they ARE pink. and the other are Polka Dots, how could one not adore them??
I feel like I am not the best toilet training mama. I try to not be all yelly or freak out, but poop in the undies has me freaking in a low voice, ewww lily ewww isn’t that uncomfortable?? remember “pee and poo go in the potty NOT in the undies” ewwwww. Yeah, not so helpful.
but we’re making it. and its amazing how many days of cloth dipes I have for one kid. not that the laundry has decreased yet, there is plenty of sheets and pants and socks and little girl undies in the wash at any given time.
but still, it progress, and this too shall pass….