Yesterday afternoon I was holding Cadence on my lap on the back yard swing/hammock and Alex came running by with a water bucket (plastic) and swung it and it bopped her on the head. She screamed for 10 solid minutes and scared me to DEATH. Although there was only a small little bump on her head that was a little red, we loaded her up and took her to Urgent Care. They did a quick neurological exam to make sure that she was okay. She was fine, and the nurse and the doctor both must have thought I was neurotic. But it was so close to her soft spot I was scared to death of bleeding by the brain or something. Thank goodness she's okay though. It about gave me a heart attack!
Today we decided to start potty training Alex since he's been showing all the signs. He's been changing his baby doll's diaper, and having it sit on the toilet to "pee". He's wanted to pee on the toilet several times. He has been asking us to change his diaper BEFORE he pees or poos. AND he was also very interested in his take along sign and talk potty yesterday and sat on it naked for 2+ hours yesterday. So we dove into it today by putting him in underwear and training pants. Well that didn't last long. As soon as he sits on the toilet he starts screaming that "he can't". So I immediatly re-dress him. Then he had several meltdowns begging for a diaper. So I just put him in a pull-up because I don't want to push him too soon and make him think he HAS to potty on the toilet. I'm sort of disappointed, he was showing ALL the signs of being ready and then when we decide to try it, and put 100% effort into it, he freaks out. Ugh. It doesn't help that I don't know WHAT THE HECK I am doing in potty training a child. And I keep calling my mom and Shawn to ask them what to do. I hate second guessing myself.
Oh well, maybe we'll get rid of the bottle. That needed to happen at least 6 months ago. Everytime we've decided to get rid of the bottle something big happens that is stressful top him..either he gets sick (really sick), or I do and don't want to deal with it, or we move, and then Cadence was born. So maybe we should get rid of the bottles tonight and just do it cold turkey. Get them out of the house and tell him there are none left and basically if they aren't in the house I can't give in (my biggest fault!). Well I have to study for my Childhood Behavior Disorder exam for next week, so I'm going to cut this blog short!
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10 months ago
2 comments:
I'm glad Cadence is okay!! Poor baby. Good thing you got her checked out, you just never know. You're not being neurotic, you're being a good parent. Good luck with the potty training!!
I know how hard it is to potty train a little boy! Ethan has been doing the same thing that Alex is doing so you aren't alone. It just takes some patience. I finally broke down and used bribery and at least now he's sitting on the potty without screaming.
As for the bottle, I had trouble with that one too. Try taking Alex to Target and buying him a special daytime & nighttime cup (thats spillproof). Ethan has 2 Thomas ones. One he can only use during the day and one he could only use for bedtime. Its a start to moving away from taking a bottle at all. Eventually it will stop at bedtime all together.
Good luck Elizabeth!
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