I am now a proud Mommy of a little girl that is using the potty. Here's the rundown without giving you all the dirty details. About a week ago, Melody was in the bath and she announced that she had to go to the potty. I tried to whisk her out of the bath onto the potty, and she said to me, "No Mommy, I'll hold it until I'm done with my bath." Hmmmm... so she can tell me that she has to go, and she can tell me she wants to hold it, AND she can hold it? So I decided to give it a try. We really haven't done any potty training since the last attempt over the summer that didn't go so well. She would sit on the potty then, but nothing would ever come out.
So, I picked a day and said that it was going to be "No Diaper Day". I really revved it up and made a big deal about it. So, when that day came, we went into cotton underpants and I brought out the Clorox wipes ready to go. The whole morning was chaos. We were watching Ashley that day, and Melly ended up peeing on the floor a bunch of times (hence the Clorox wipes), but Melody still would not do anything when she would sit on the potty. I set a timer to go off every hour, and if she didn't go on the potty, I'd set it for another 20 minutes, then 10 minutes and so on. That whole morning though, we never made it to the end of the 20 minutes really, because after she would sit on the potty (with books and stuff), she'd leave the bathroom and pee on the floor in the hallway. Kerri came to pick up Ashley (as luck would have it, both girls were on the potty), and I was talking with Kerri as to what to do because Melody wouldn't go when on the potty. As the words were coming out of my mouth, Melody screams from the bathroom, "Mommy!!!!! I did it!!!!" And she did! Clearly talking about it is all I needed to do!
The rest of the day I had her in cotton underpants (and for a good portion of the day naked), and she didn't have any more accidents on the floor. I was still setting the timer though, and she willingly went into the bathroom each time that timer went off. There were a few times she would tell me she had to go before the timer even went off. I put her in a pullup for the night, and awaited what would happen the next day.
On Friday, we had a difficult start. Her pullup was dry (surprisingly), but she still wouldn't go on the potty. Apparently being retentive is my daughter through and through, in all aspects of her! So the first part of the morning she kept sitting on the potty, but we had nothing. After about an hour, she started crying because it was hurting her, but she couldn't let it go. Finally, after a couple hours she happened to not be able to hold it anymore while on the potty, and she put all the pieces together on how her body feels and what she needs to do. Since then, the only accident she has had was #2 one, because I don't think she got how that felt.
We keep putting the pullups on her when we go out of the house, but they always stay dry. Last night, she woke up in the middle of the night to go on the potty, but sadly I didn't know that's what she was trying to say and she went in the pullup before I could get her in the bathroom. Then today at Mom's group, she did super well, and actually went #2 on the potty. So it would seem that she has all the pieces of this mysterious potty training puzzle together, and now we just have to keep practicing it.
It sounds so simple, but I can honestly say, that I have never been so proud!
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