Who's working today?

[akafred]

My company gives lots of days off for holidays but apparently we do not have much respect for the presidents. Who's with me?

[helenahhandbasket]

I'm shockingly off today, this is one of the few we get.

But my kid has been a stage 5 clinger all weekend and today so far appears to be no different so I'm almost wishing I was at work.

[sudokufan]

I'm at work and I don't mind it a bit; I was home with Bud 2.5 days last week, and he woke up at an 11 this morning, ready to take on the world. The other 17 kids will help burn off that energy faster than I've been able to manage. I'm just going to sit here at work and drink my tea thank you very much.

I may borrow a heating pad for my shoulder, I think I pulled it during a ninja turtle attack yesterday...

[xctsclrx]

I am at work. Happy about it. I was about ready to strangle my DH this weekend. Potty training might be the end of us (not really). This might be the nail in the coffin for me being one and done though. Not sure if I ever want to go through it again.

[sudokufan]

xctsclrx, I hated potty training at first We tried the 3 day thing and it just didn't work for us. It was nice when everything finally clicked for DS, but then I had to rethink my whole approach to going out - what do you keep in a diaper bag that's not a diaper bag? Where are the bathrooms in all our usual haunts? Can he sit on an industrial adult potty by himself? (answer to that, not and aim at the same time!!) Got that figured out, then had to deal with diarrhea for five days --aaaaaaaagh.

tl;dr - potty training sucks, all my sorries, I'd send chocolate if I could

[xctsclrx]

sudokufan, What did work for you guys? The 3 day method doesn't seem to be working with us either. However, we did make progress yesterday. We peed in the potty twice but had four accidents. 2 were poop. So gross.

[sudokufan]

xctsclrx, I backed off from the 3 day, put him back in pull ups and focused instead on just getting him to sit on the potty often and try to go, stressing that it was a normal part of the routine. You ALWAYS use the potty when you wake up, leave the house, before dinner, etc. and then praised him to high heaven when he would actually go. Also stressed how nice it was to have a clean dry diaper, but if he did go in one I'd say, it's ok, let's get you cleaned up and into a NICE CLEAN ONE. LOL. Daycare helped here, because they also build toilet time into all of their routines. Once he got to the point where he'd come home wearing the same pull up he went to school in, then we went back to underwear. The first 2 days, daycare took him every 30 minutes, but they stopped bothering because it had obviously clicked.

It took about 2 weeks longer for poop than pee; I was tempted to switch to underwear once he had peeing down, but DNW to clean poopy underwear so I waited it out. Obviously this all took a lot longer than the 3 day method, but I personally was less stressed this way, and once he had the routine down we were using so many fewer pullups and I was having to clean him up less often that I thought it was a pretty good middle ground.

[supertrooper1]

I'm at work today. My work never closes and I only get holidays if I take the day off or it falls on my day off. I'm ok with it. It should be slow and allow me to catch up on work projects.

[xctsclrx]

sudokufan, I think that is a solid approach. It might take longer but less stress and works better for the working parent. My daycare takes that approach too. So I am on board.

[erinshelley21]

xctsclrx, We did a relaxed and extended version of the 3 day method. We were only focusing on pee because DS was having constipation issues at the time so we didn't care where he pooped as long as he pooped. I made it my mission to make him pee. I loaded him up with juice and water and made him sit on the potty every 30-45 minutes, so he didn't really have a chance to have accidents. I brought the potty to our playroom/living room area with a towel underneath so he wouldn't have to really stop what he was doing. Going into a different room to pee made it feel like his fun was over or he had to stop watching his show, so I brought the potty to him. He picked it up after a couple of days and eventually recognized when he needed to go. When I can't get him to go try even though its been a while, I let him pee outside. He LOVES peeing outside, even when its cold. So you could try that too. We only ever used pull-ups at night and if we were in the car for the purpose of him falling asleep. He is still in pull-ups at night but I'm not in any hurry to quit those.

Poop took a while and some pretty big bribes... a $20 bucket of play-doh and play-doh tools, a trip to the mall to ride a couple rides. This did mean dealing with poop in underwear, but if it was messy enough I just threw the underwear away. He eventually didn't like getting cleaned up after pooping his pants and thats when pooping on the potty stuck with him.

[erinshelley21]

I'm at work but I'm just a warm body from now until the baby gets here since I got everything mostly done. I have some busy work to do but I don't wanna. I'm leaving at 2 though to go mosey around Hobby Lobby before my NST.

[mustardseed2007]

I'm at work. I have a 10:30 conference call with my boss and a couple of attorneys or I probably would be working from home. I was thinking of going home early but the more I sit here the more I think of things that I need to do (but don't want to).

It's a rainy day, too though. We'd just be sitting at home, watching tv...maybe playing some playdoh....sounds pretty good actually.

But I really need a nap. I was up too late b/c DH was all huffy that we don't spend enough time together. So we watched Ant Man. What a stupid movie. I kind of enjoyed it.

[xctsclrx]

erinshelley21, sudokufan, how old were your DS's when you started the potty training?

[sudokufan]

xctsclrx, that one's tough for me to answer because we were soooo slow about it and depends on how you define "started" lol-- we introduced the little potties at around 2 when he showed some interest in a "would you like to try? no? ok, maybe later" kind of way, but didn't really push the routine thing until almost 3 when he was showing signs that he had some real bladder control on his own, like being dry for a few hours at a time. That's when I tried the 3 day thing and got frustrated and went back to the pullup/routine plan. Used the last pullup at 3y3m ish.

[erinshelley21]

Feb 20, 2017 10:07:48 GMT -5 xctsclrx said:

erinshelley21 , sudokufan , how old were your DS's when you started the potty training?

2 3/4.

[xctsclrx]

I think we may be starting too soon. He is 2 years and 3 months. However, for daycare he has to be in pull ups by May. That is when he moves up to the next class. He doesn't have to be potty trained until four I think. I didn't want him to go to a new class and hit pull ups all at the same time.

[erinshelley21]

xctsclrx, maybe try again late next month. MIL thought DS was ready shortly after he turned 2 but I wasn't convinced and I wasn't ready to give up diapers during a busy time of year for me at work. Between now and then talk about it a little bit, make a big deal about buying cool new underwear. There's a Daniel Tiger episode about peeing on the potty. We also read a couple of books: Diapers Are Not Forever and an Elmo potty book. We also have a potty that sings when pee happens and has a little flushing handle. It doesn't actually flush, but it makes a noise and lights up. DS liked making it sing.

[vasc]

I'm at work. It's a student holiday and comp day for employees who did a PD last June....but I didn't do it because I wasn't hired by then. Literally me, my principal, and the janitors here.
My DD is 3.5, pee trained, but still relies on a diaper to poop in the evenings. I'm so over it. When I ask her when she will use the toilet, she says "When I'm bigger."

[k3am]

xctsclrx - we pushed potty training too early at 2.5. It was a PITA and after a few months, we backed off and put her in pull-ups and it was glorious. One random day, she decided she wanted to poop in the potty, and did it on her terms.

ETA: she mastered pee after day 1 of the 3-day method and was in panties, even at night. She had no luck with the poop.

DS will be in diapers until he does ready on his own. Kids don't adhere to other people's timelines.

[tas1883]

I'm at work and DD is making up a snow day so is at school. I'm kind of bummed as the original plan was for DD and I to have a girls day today to celebrate my birthday since she had no school meaning I scheduled appointments and worked my actual birthday so I could have today off. Now I'm working since there is tons of it to do and DD is at school.

DH got me a cake! This is the first time he has gotten me a birthday cake since DD been born. The last cake he did for me was while I was pregnant. He also got my favorite which is a DQ ice cream cake and he also made a pan of dark chocolate brownies with dark chocolate frosting covered with MnMs (yuck).

DD was an early bird for potty training thanks to severe constipation. There was just no room in a diaper for large hard poops! All of her friends seemed to potty train between the 2.5-3 mark and most were still in pull ups at night until after 4.

[MsNicole06]

I'm finding all this potty training talk fabulous. DD is 2y3m and will ask to sit on the potty sometimes but the majority of the time doesn't want to. It's nice to see so many responses about this topic since we tried this past week while she was with mom and she isn't potty trained. Thank you ladies!!!!

[erinshelley21]

tas1883 I'm really glad your H got you a birthday cake. It wasn't even my birthday and I was irritated at the lack of acknowledgement.

[tas1883]

erinshelley21, I threw myself a nice pity party Saturday afternoon. DD caught me and then gave me a big hug and called me into her room a few minutes later for a giant horse tea party.

[xctsclrx]

tas1883, poor baby. Glad we don't have issues like that. Instead we get 2-3 poops a day.

Thank you ladies for making me feel better. My mom always brags that I was potty trained by 20 months and how I was talking by 9 months and could count at 1 and all of these things.

My son is counting to five now and really just started talking maybe six months ago. He didn't start walking until 15 months. (it actually popped up in my timeline today) When I talk to my mom I feel like a failure as a mother because my kid isn't doing all these things yet. Sometimes I think my mom really is mis-remembering my babyhood though. It's hard for me to keep in mind that all kids grow at their own pace.

[sudokufan]

xctsclrx, I can't remember exactly how old DS was when we could count him as "potty trained" and that was within the last 6 months, so I'm inclined to believe my mom isn't entirely accurate in her memories of potty training me either


My H went to Cabela's on the way home (foolish man wanted to take advantage of President's Day sales, then complained about the crowds) and bought me 3 containers of chocolate fudge. He gets so many brownie points tonight. I'm debating whether I really need anything else for supper.

[k3am]

xctsclrx - according to my mother, all 3 of her kids were potty trained by 14 months. According to the family photo albums? Not so much.

[mlee116]

I am working today. Womp womp. I think this is one of the holidays that we trade for a really long Christmas break instead of being off. Which is nice at Christmas, but today I am not a fan. lol.

DD (a little over 2) is going pee on the potty several times a day, but she's only gone #2 once so it's Pull-Ups for her until she gets better with that. We did the 3 day with DS when he was 2.5 and it was a breeze. We tried to train him at 2, but it just was too early. The second round, he was trained by Day 2. I agree that it really depends on when they're ready.

[mlee116]

Isn't it funny how our parents remember our childhoods? My mom insists none of her 5 kids ever had issues not sleeping through the night when we were babies and her house was always clean. MIL said DH said his first word at like 4 months old and said a sentence shortly after that.

[xctsclrx]

k3am, At least there is photo evidence that she is wrong. 14 months? I think maybe she is experiencing amnesia through her kids first year and it was really 26 months.

[rere26]

Not working today because I am supposed to be recouping from surgery. In the course of 5 minutes I get a call from Dh that he has to have a CAT scan of his head and is referred to the ENT and a call stating that we need to make a decision if DS needs to get tested for low growth hormone. FML.