So yeah, that nap I laid him down for last Saturday- he woke up completely soaked. I had laid towels down on his bed and had a complete change of clothes ready, so just like that, we changed and went on with the day. The afternoon seemed more difficult- lots of little piddles through underwear while running to the potty.
Over the course of the next few days, our schedule changed and we were out of the house a lot more than I planned on. I ended up bringing diapers with us and using them- just to avoid the hassle. I'm not quite confident that the car seat will stay dry on the way to the library, not quite ready to let the nursery ladies suffer at church because he won't tell anyone but me when he has to go.
So today, 6 days after our first big day- we are again going completely diaper free and it seems to be clicking better than day 1. Ian is still in his 1st pair of underwear for the day, and hasn't had an accident yet (3 hours strong!) He has sat on the potty twice today with no results. So that's- oh wait- he's yelling pee pee!
Ok- had a success on the potty!!! And he clapped for himself and said "yay" about a million times! ha ha...
Things I've learned so far:
1) Potty training is what you make of it. If you wanna be a tyrant for a full week and boss your kiddo around and be totally frustrated and upset with accidents- you totally can! And if you wanna be gentle and see every accident as a learning opportunity and have fun- you can too! I've got nothing at stake here, so we're having fun picking out underwear each day, doing sign language for potty words, and learning more about each other as we go along. If I hated this process, I'd just stop and wait till later.
2) Underwear is key for us. Lots of people say go completely pantless, and I will say, we have had lots of times where we do. BUT since we are going diaper free all day long, turns out, underwear catches a lot of things. AKA- the Big Bird undies took the hit when Ian looked up worried from his play kitchen saying "uh oh mommy, poo poo". When I scooped him up and took him to the bathroom- turns out my black bean soup had not sat so well in his tummy.... I'll spare the rest of the details on that. BUT since we cloth diaper, I was able to just dump the contents of Big Bird into the toilet, rinse him out, and toss him into our dirty cloth diaper pail. Big Bird came out clean the next day, and thankfully, the play kitchen was not harmed a bit from Ian's accident. I hate to picture what might have been without the underwear on.......The undies also seem to let Ian really feel that he is wet, I can see that he is wet or currently wetting, and we still have time to make it to the potty without making a mess everywhere!
3) I really love my boy. Watching the faces this kiddo makes while on the potty, watching him learn how to navigate his step stool up to the big potty, seeing him learn from his potty mistakes- these moments with him are priceless. I'm so lucky to get to parent this particular child, and I can't wait to navigate through more of these milestones and learn what's really going on in his little brain and little body.
Sorry no pics today. I'll get some good ones this week for my next post. But for now, I'm back to the trenches :) Hope you're enjoying the updates!
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