My little monkey is doing such a good job with potty training! I'm so proud of him! Last week went awesome, I think he peed in his diaper 2x the whole week! And one time was during the night! Otherwise he has woken up completely dry. Yay! He even told me in the car on the way out to eat that he had to pee, and I asked if he could hold it until we got to the restaurant. He told me yes, and when we got there, he peed on the potty there!
But still no poops on the potty. I was so sure the dump truck was going to be enough motivation, but he just isn't ready for that step yet. Every day he says that he will poop on the potty, but when it comes down to it, he still refuses. I have been getting him naked when we get home from daycare, and a few times he has cried for me to put his diaper on him because he wants to poop in it. I don't put it back on until bedtime, so he has sat on the potty multiple times to "try", but he just won't do it and then ends up with a belly ache because he's holding it in. Poor kid.
A forward step, though, is that even if he has a diaper on, he almost will ask for permission to poop in it. Out of nowhere he will say, "I don't want to poop in the potty!" So I'll ask if he needs to poop, he will say yes, I'll try to persuade him for a few minutes to try on the potty, he will refuse, and I'll tell him he can poop in his diaper. "I can poop in my diaper?" he'll ask. After I tell him yes again, he'll go find somewhere private to poop. This weekend we were camping, so he asked me to open the door to the camper for him because, "I want to poop on Daddy's bed." : ) So he was in there a good 15 minutes, pooping on our bed. I checked on him once, to make sure it was going ok (he hadn't pooped the day before, so I was worried he was constipated), and he said he was fine and for me to "go away". Then a few minutes later he opened the door to the camper and yelled out to me, "Leave me alone!" and then just went back in to go about his business.
All in all, though, he's doing such an awesome job. Johanna (daycare provider) told me on Friday that he is doing so awesome and that if he did well over the weekend, she would be ok with him coming to her house in underwear this week. I sent him in a diaper today, because the weekend kind of threw us off a routine and it was hard to get him to try when he was playing with his friends at the campground. He still did awesome this weekend, though, and if he does his usual great job today, I'll send him in undies tomorrow if he tells me its ok with him. : )
I also went to the doctor today. I'm 17 weeks and everything is looking as it should. Blood pressure and blood sugar were normal, uterus growing at the right speed, baby's heart rate was 148. The only thing she mentioned was my weight gain - only 5 lbs so far - but that as long as I'm eating and feeling ok, she expects my weight will catch up later! I remember with Owen, they also mentioned my weight gain was slow, but I ended up gaining the 30 lbs they recommended, so I'm not too worried. They also scheduled my big ultrasound for September 10 (3 weeks away), so we are very excited for that and then I go back for my regular appointment the next week. Something to look forward to after Labor Day and summer ending.
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