Stumble It!
This morning, Charlotte woke up dry as usual and I told her that if she wanted to wear her Dora pull-ups, she had to go pee-pee on the potty (sure didn't think when I was getting those degrees that I'd actually speak like this). So while I was changing Sawyer at the asscrack of dawn - seriously, the birds were looking in my window asking what the fuck I was doing up so early - I hear her tinkling in the potty for the very first time! I quickly threw a naked newborn on my shoulder and ran into the bathroom where I did a little dance and clapped and yelled about how proud I was that she was peeing on the potty (seriously, what has my life come to?).
I must have startled her or she realized what she was doing, stopped, and proceeded to have a stroke.
"Oh no MOMMA!"
"What's the matter? You're such a big girl. You did pee-pees on the potty!!"
"Oh, NO! Oh, NO! My poops! MY POOPS! They're gonna fall out!"
And then she hurried off the potty (while I was trying to be serious and hide a fit of giggles) and hasn't wanted to sit on it since. She hasn't even asked for her Dora pull-ups.
I haven't pushed potty training on her. Especially with a new baby, I wasn't about to urge her to do something she'd just regress from. But, it's always there. Sometimes she'll ask to sit on it. Sometimes she'll pretend to push. She usually wakes up dry and I always ask her if she wants to.
We tried the naked thing. We tried the big girl panties thing.
But, in all honestly, we're not really trying. And I have to be honest, I'm not very interested in it. I figure she'll do it when she's ready and that if I push her, it will backfire.
But now there's this new thing where she's afraid to lose her poops? I've read that she thinks it's a part of her and that "losing" it is scary.
She's only 29 months old so I'm not worried and I KNOW she will do it in her own time, and since she's inherited my stubbornness, pushing her will only cause her to push back.
We McLastname women don't like to be pushed around or told what to do, that's for damn sure.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
The Potty
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8 comments:
Yay! on peepees in the potty.
As for the poops falling out - well, she's right. Just needs to connect on where they should fall out into.
It'll happen. The no-stress approach is a good one.
Awesome!!
Morgan has NO interest in it at all. Well, that's wrong. She likes to sit on the potty, but only WITH her diaper on. She will ask her bunny and dolls if THEY need to go potty, but when you ask HER? Oh hell to the no.
I'm with you--she'll do it when SHE'S ready and honestly? I'm not that interested right now, either.
:)
PLEASE do not get me started on the potty....all potty humor aside....
I waited until mine was three and showed a smidge of interest. You're doing right.
Hooray Charlotte! I remember Meg having the poop issues too. It too shall pass.
And you're 100% right; don't push the potty training. Meg was trained before 2 because she was in daycare and they trained her there (and she wanted so much to be like the older kids who were potty training) and we followed along. Drew just potty trained himself earlier this year. We started before he turned 3 and he showed ZERO interest (ok, a little, but it waned, quickly). Once HE decided HE was ready, he did great. And he loves his fancy undies. :)
Take your time and don't worry about it. Ironflower had interest very young but then didn't want really want to consistently until she was a little younger than three. She had started preschool and the fact that all her friends were doing it. And then it was easy.
God bless pampers and hot cocoa was MOMENTS from coming out of my nose when I read the OH NO MAMA part of this post. A little hot beverage/nose warning next time, kay?
That's awesome!
We had the same toilet training method as you. We just let Matt go at his own pace. He would sit on it from a very young age, but wasn't "trained"
But when he was ready - it was quick and easy.
I'm baffled by people who try training at a super early age (like 18 months) and whine for 2 years about how hard it is.
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