First off, I have to say a big thank you to Lora Jensen, though I certainly don't know her personally! Some friends recommended that I check out Lora's e-book at 3DayPottyTraining.com. I loved how she focuses on positive reinforcement and giving the child the ownership in deciding when to use the potty. (Ian is definitely not one of those "willingly sit on the potty every 20 minutes when the timer rings" kind of kids.) She's a big reason we decided to try potty training in earnest when Ian turned two. (Her magic "window" is between 22-30 months but she recommends closer to 22 months.)
On Thursday, we started our journey with potty training. Ian happily drank lemonade and apple juice and Capri Sun ... and then proceeded to have a few accidents. We ran him to the potty each time, reminding him to tell us when he needed to go pee pee! By late morning, Ian seemed to be getting the hang of things. He was a big fan of getting M & Ms and getting to call grandparents and Daddy when he went potty on the potty chair!
On Friday, Ian had no major accidents! When his underwear got slightly damp, he'd tell Momma or Daddy he needed to go to the potty! He gets the hugest grin on his face as he watches himself go potty! It seems almost magic to him!
On Saturday, he wore the same pair of underwear the whole time he was awake, successfully going on the potty chair many, many times!
Since then, we've even ventured out of the house successfully! Ian is excited to use the "big potty" at church and in the grocery stores, too!
We still have a few hurdles, though. We're still putting him in Pull-ups when he sleeps. He's almost always waking up from nap dry, but he's never waking up dry in the mornings. We think (and hope!) that the night-training will happen naturally as he gets older. Our other hurdle is getting Ian to poop on the potty chair. He hasn't yet. Instead, he'll wait until bed time when he has his Pull-up on. We're not really sure how to help him ... so if you have any thoughts / words of wisdom, please let us know! If nothing else, hopefully time will help this issue, too!
Overall, though, we're so proud of our big boy (and so thankful that the training has been smooth!) A few other recent pictures ...
Today at lunch Ian thought eating grilled cheese sandwiches was hilarious! He kept giggling as the Colby Jack cheese stretched and stretched and stretched between his mouth and the sandwich!
Ian wants to be just like Daddy, shaving and all! :)
4 comments:
Not sure how to help with the pooping part. With S, that came quite easily, but he was much older when he potty trained. As for N, well, she easily embarrasses, so she had an accident while we were out and about, causing us to have to leave and go home. She hasn't had a poop accident since.
But I did want to encourage you for overnight training. Overnight training requires the body to produce a hormone that slows down production of urine (I think that's what it does). A child simply cannot hold it overnight until this happens. My daughter (3 years) wakes dry almost every morning. My son (almost five years) still wakes up wet and sometimes even wets through his "night time undies." He's not considered delayed in this, but he also has pretty bad sleep apnea which may inhibit him getting into a deep enough sleep to produce this hormone. Give Ian time! He's doing AMAZING!!!
I was just going to call you and ask if you had succcess with Ian pooping on the potty. I have yet to have success with Noah. He waits until nap time or first thing in the morning before I get him up. I've bribed him with special things and he wants them but he still won't poop on the potty. Although before potty training those are the two times he would poop the most often so who knows how I can get him to shift his schedule. Let me know if you figure something out!
Henry didn't want to poop on the toilet at all, at first. He did it once at the babysitter and then wouldn't do it again for a while...don't know if it scared him or what. On the plus side, it's only been 3 months since we started this potty training journey and he had no problems during the day anymore. We're still working on nighttime too...sometimes their bodies just aren't ready - my cousin was 5 or 6 before he was completely dry at night (because he slept so deeply) and the doctor said it was still normal.
WAY TO GO IAN! Keep up the good work!
Follow the program, Kim, and put him in underwear at night. I know it's hard. I still wash sheets almost every day. M HATED waking up wet and got the overnight thing quickly. E sleeps so soundly that he often doesn't wake, but the few times he has stayed dry has been so exciting for him!
Ian will get it, promise, but the best way to get him to stop relying on the diaper to go poop is to not give him the diaper option at all. He will probably hate the feeling of yucky underwear--M only had one poop accident b/c he thought it was so gross. Good luck!! Call me anytime!
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