This is My project Life page How adorable is that OMG !! Soo this is what I have been up to this past month. While I was trying to become an accomplished blogger my daughter decide she no longer required Diapers!! Seriously Outta the blue just didn't want them Anymore you should have been there for this discussion.. NO DIAPER MAMA PANTIES Right :/
OKay so Anyone ready for a Total Flash Back !! potty training for Julia okay the idea was introduced to my daughter when she was 6 months WHY because I heard of the diaper free movement that is Elimination Communication !! and I had cloth diapers and OMG !! anything is better the hosing off a cloth diaper !! Even if that thing is running a non crawling non verbal infant to a toilet !! specifically when the real food got in her digestive track cause lets be honest Breast milk poo barely requires a rinse her new solid carrot poos began to carrot stain my diapers requiring sunning and other things that had just not come up they got a fowl odor BTW RLR or something like that need to get the name from my friend but GOD SEND
Sooo Then Ultimately My stubbornness of not wanting to give up the cloth diapers I had so preciously Envied I said OKAY I'll EC my INFANT this is then not taken well by my immediate circle of people in my life who think I will ultimately scar my infant from the toilet and she will not potty train till kindergarten due to TOILET Harassment >.< But that was a risk I was willing to take ...
HAHA okay Soo First day with the toilet We actually did pretty good !! and I was impressed with myself we ECed for several months with no problem until one day .... She started walking -_- Okay don't get me wrong I was super happy my child was walking I would assume she was 11 month but OMG now I could not get my child to sit on the toilet it was a battle would not hoover would not sit alone could not give her anything to get her to sit she didn't want to sit would not have it This is ultimatly when me and my relationship with my cloth diapers KINDA ended -_- it was a good run cloth diapers but YEAH SO we basically became the family who had cloth used cloth and left cloth in the dust there for a minute ... Personally I think if anything is that big of a head ache and has ruined your lifestyle to that much of a point its really not worth doing .... Flash forward I would assume a little before Christmas really My daughter then Decided or okay I thought she decided that she wanted to be toilet training again there was some EC there was hits there were misses but then again she fell outta interest Toddlers are SUPER FLAKY Turns out or maybe she all of a sudden became more Verbal !!
Soo That was it I gave up I swear you can call my friend I said I'll just potty train her when she is 2 That's is she obviously does not want to be Potty trained and I gave up the ghost. I have this big trip to Jersey to visit my friend it will be easier if she is in diapers anyway... this is what I tell you I was done had it -_- I SH!T you not the next week she was ready to be potty trained ....(face-Palm) only my child when I had truly gave up on the prospect of toilet training would come back with no panties mom -_- Your joking
Of course her Daddy was home that Day so We Made A day of it !! why not honestly when you have a toddler you have to celebrate the small things to keep your sense of humor (especially the stay at home moms ) !! And Why not !! because who likes Diapers #NOTIT !! So We went to the Local Target I do love Target her first pick was Minnie mouse which of course they only had in 4T how dare they !! Soo Next PICK !! My Little Ponies !! cause we all know there awesome !! Seriously the remake of MLP has just not disappointed in my book
So we get home and we have few accidents ... I mean very few most not even being a big accident ultimately she would wee a little in her panties and would then realize oh I should have gone ... and this was rare that she didn't just say TI-TI MAMA!! which btw is adorable and she even did the TINKLE Dance that all the kids do and I don't care who you are that Is just adorable !! really is !! Which after a successful potty trip she gets a "Tinkle Treat" a.k.a M&M I know food is not a good reward system but honestly I can't afford to buy a special toy for every piss and stickers aren't her thing and it worked for my mom ... It's worked for other moms ... SO yeah you dont have to do that just what we did So next to the toilet I have a small Jar marked Tinkle Treats btw we have been doing this during the Easter candy so we got the cute pastel M&M which are adorable !! soo after Every successful potty she receives a Tinkle treat now this does become a issue when we are out however I will just pick up a small bag of M&M if I dont already have a small bag in my diaper bag from previous wins !!
Soo Okay I was then Putting her in diapers at night that was the logical thing to do !! But then What I thought were NIGHT TERRORS started happening for a solid week 3 am Screaming like a Banchee and I would hope for her to go back to sleep but NOO!! I would finally check on her and she would say scared and cry and I'm thinking WHAT can you be scared of >.< SERIOUSLY !! it was only like on the 5th day of NO BODY getting any sleep that she finally alerted me that her distress was due to the fact SHE needed to TI-TI !! all that for a midnight run to the toilet !! Sooo we back off her fluid consumption before bed time and have offered her toilet before bed and that problem was soon remedied ...
The Last and Final Peg in the thing was the DAMNED Froggy potty it was made for BOYS which I didn't think would be a HUGE deal BUT Julia could not sit on this toilet she would dance around it try to ride it BUT COULD NOT for the life of her sit on her toilet FINALLY I called it quits I Went back to the store and purchased the fisher Price Musical Potty which a PREVIOUS friend had told me not to get the musical potty as they would totally see it more as a toy then as an actual TOILET and this made TOTAL SENSE to me but this toilet has these little metal things and when water COMPLETES the connection BOOM!!! MAGICAL NOISE and MUSIC and YAY APPLAUSE for the poo
ThaT Sums up the Family experience that was Potty Training !! I have absolutely no clue if dabbling in elimination communication Helped, I don't know even prior training helped, I'm not even sure if cloth diapers Helped ... I sure hope so as I think that was an awful Lot of effort in hopes that my child would train early and she did HOORAY!! Will I do it for my Next Child YES !! and WHY because Honestly I think all children have to be ready to go , but I think you also have to provide them the tools to go.. . To deny your child the option because you or a Pedi think they are too young is silly !! I think every child should have options to go to the potty as soon as the option is available. Do I think all Children will Potty train at 18 months NO I don't; I think Potty training involves a lot of work on both the Parent and the child ..I don't think every child is going to want to potty train at the age and that is their choice however I think every parent should begin the discussion as soon as possible... I'm happy Julia had a long time to think about it and finally made the decision To do it on her own terms and I'm happy it was before 2
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