Toilet Training-an important milestone in your life and your baby's life....
The perks- Both your confidence and the bub's confidence soars up to a new height, Good bye nappies..off you go...a sense of self esteem and the list goes on...
The downside: Could be a little stressful till the first drops of pee actually go into the loo as well as the clean ups during accidents....
When to start: The story begins here people:)
I am not saying it was an absolute breeze for the mini person and me...Infact we did have a lot of times where we failed miserably and thought we were not capable of this milestone.
We tried the first time back when she just turned one. This was when we went to our homeland for a vacation. The babies there were squatting away and doing it beautifully. As advised by the grandparents, we tried to do so in the tub,on the potty ,but was not happening....The better half reasoned that it was too early for her and maybe put off for the following summer. Moreover babies back there were on cloth nappies during daytime. This gave them a sense of wetness when they peed into the nappies and thus got a better sense of control over time. In our case was that it just the better half, me and she. We were both working full time and simply didnt have another pair of helping hands for the clean ups....
The next summer when she turned two we tried again...We meticulously tried again. Ammu at this stage was ready to go to the toilet, clean up, flush and get back...there was one problem here....She only peed and pooed after she had her undies on...poor baby and poor parents...we gave up after 10 days... The better half who works as a full time paeds doc other than a dad reasoned that she hasn't understood the concept as yet. But this time we happily gave up and she was back in the diapers....
This summer we were more prepared... Ammu was back in her undies last saturday and we watched a couple of videos on youtube. We set the timer for every 20 minutes whereby she had to go and sit in the toilet. She was terrified and was all teary....I bribed her by giving little rewards only for going and sitting there. I treated her by giving her the cake sprinkles wrapped in the patty case. I promised her to reward her a lolly if she were to urine. Smarty pants was back saying she peed...but alas forgot that Mama had studied chemistry in school...I put in a drop of red food colouring ( credited to a great mom in baby central) which would then turn orange if she were to urine... Believe me nothing happened that 6 hours when she was in the undies...But as soon as she put in her nappies ...she filled it up in less than an hour...
This weekend on saturday, we took her nappies...Missy tried again ...but nothing was happening..cleaning ,flushing washing all was going on meticulously..And guess what we heard some sound and the water was ORANGE....ooo we were so happy...we congratulated and hugged her and she was over the top of the world....listen here...she would not poo..crying and terrified and what not...we decided we would wait.....
She was great ..she just had an accident once in a while..We decided we would try out the night time training too.....
On night 1 , before going to bed we asked her to try to pee. She couldnt and hence wet the bed , herself and the dad at 4:30 am...She was way too upset and didnt sleep that night.
On Night 2, at around 3:00am I woke her up and took her to the toilet. She did her wee, but was upset and cried for 2 hours...Better half thought it was not a good idea as it becomes a habit for her to wee at that time every night.
On Night 3, we decided to go for mom's psychological approach..Put a plastic sheet and let her wee and get wet. At one stage she would just stop. So we did that ...but with a twist..we put her undies on , as well as a training pants over...
The good news is that she still feels wet and I don't have to change the sheets at night.....
Story Continues ;)
Chad
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