Monday, September 28, 2009

Time to end diapers

Soo...it's time for night training. The first few weeks of potty training N would poop w/o a problem in the potty. Owen and I both were like great! This is awesome! We'd both heard how hard it is usually for your kid to poop on the potty. Anyway, I'm not sure what happened but she suddenly stopped. Since we were working on the whole fear of Flush thing, and peeing in public thing, we just let it drop and figured it was just a 'phase'. ha! 5m? later she still holds it and waits for bedtime for her diaper before she will poop.

We've tried a ton of things:

- Bribery - stickers, 5 WHOLE jellybeans Tash if you poop on the potty!
- Sitting her on it at bedtime before stories, after stories - she grunts and groans and says "no poop mommy/daddy"
- Putting a diaper on her and having her sit on the potty
- Praising her on what a big girl she was and how all her friends pooped on the potty. (I know horrible)

And numerous other things. Last night, within like 5 secs of the diaper going on, after I had her sit on the potty before & after stories, she pooped in the diaper. I will admit that frustration hit. I changed her diaper and said "Ok sweetie, this is it, your last diaper". Then I left her room.

Owen was working last night so I called him up, almost in tears (stupid pregnancy hormones) and told him "That's it, no more diapers for Tash at bedtime".

I vaguely recall at some point in the middle of the night her coming to our bedroom and Owen saying "Do you have to potty?" so I'm not sure if she did, I've not checked yet this morning or if she was cold or what. I did leave the light on in her room, but dimmed, so I'm hoping the urge to pee with her panties on woke her up, but I'm have expecting to go in there this morning to find a wet bed. We woke her up when we went to bed and put her on the potty, but she did not have to pee. She had just peed though 2hrs before after I'd read her stories.

Let's home diaper elimination helps with the pooping.

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