I saw that status SJ. That's funny.
Jazz is really not ready for TT. I sit her on the toilet before her bath some days. She doesn't show any signs of being uncomfortable when she's done a poo, doesn't show any signs of needing to do a wee or a poo. Doesn't even say the words.
The other day while I was doing a wee she came up and had a really good look at the wee coming out. The look on her face was so cute. She did say "Wha Dat?" so I explained that mummy was doing a wee in the toilet instead of in a nappy coz mummy's a big girl.
She has done a poo on the toilet. I let her have a look afterwards and watch as I flushed it away and told her to say bye bye to the poo. She didn't. She just did her surprised "ooOOOooo"
That's ok. She'll be ready when she's ready. I just want to get her used to sitting on the toilet for now and she can do her business when she's ready.
I do get a little sad when I read about how your kids are showing signs and wonder if something is wrong with Jazz, but then I read in other places and hear from other parents that their kids didn't start TT until between 2-3 years old so I don't feel left behind. I think you girls who are TT now are doing a great job though!
nope not at all Danni, We introduced the toilet/potty to MJ when she could sit up - part of the elimination communication method, thats why she recognises it and talks about it so much.
She spends most of her days out of nappies but we still have accidents, its just she now knows that when she wees she gets wet and she doesnt like to poo in knickers.
Its def not something that you can do while working full tie anyway, and is hard for me as i am wofrking part time, but Mum continues with what i do, so it is a bit easier.
It doesnt mean that she will be toilet trained earlier, though i think that she probably will be by 2... its just a different journey and a different method. Dont worry about it
Danni both my girls were around 2. I think Bri was a bit older.
Jaz was out of night nappies at 3 & 4 months, Bri at 4 & 6 months. It varies so much depending on the child. Jaz wet the bed often til she was 5, Bri's only done it 2 or 3 times in the last 3 or so months.
I'm starting with Jesse, but its easier with a boy I think. First of all, you have a visual....a little boy who needs to wee fills up, lol. Girls don't. I'm just getting him to go outside, or into the shower til he wee's. Twice he has made himself do it, but he doesn't get the sensation of feeling to wee yet.
Its actually something in their brain that just kicks in one day & starts working. Every child is different. A friends DD was night & day trained by 2.
SJ, your milk supply might be dropping? Maybe MJ's not too impressed??
Skye, dont think the supply is dropping, just different iykwim - must be full of hormones, and i guess as the colostrum kicks in again it will change again.
Danni re the toileting, MJ use to just sit on the toilet, i knew when she usually did a wee - like 15-30 mins aftyer food, so would sit her on the potty then, if she did something we told her and gave her a clap etc etc, if nothing was done, it was no big deal.
Now she understands all about it and can 'let go' of her wee if she has any in her bladder when she is on the toilet. the thing that she cant do, is hold on, if she has to go, she has to go. That is something that she has to learn to do and, buy 'wetting' herself, she understands when and where she is weeing and hopefully will develope the control.
So what you are doing with Jazz, by sitting her on the toilet before bath, is introducing her to the idea of her weeing on the toilet.
My baby so clever!!
Laying in bed last night, he started farting, lol. Started to concentrate, then said 'poo'!
We got up, went in & took off the nappy, he hadn't done anything yet, & then tried to find somewhere he was comfortable enough to poo... The hard part.
Won't sit on the toilet, too big. Not too sure about sitting on the potty. He did some on the floor of the shower, then nothing. I think he held it coz he wasn't sure where it should go. lol.
I just put the 3 of them in the shower with the potty & told the girls to sit on it & play games & hopefully get him to do it too, so he feels ok with it. He's getting so clever!!
Last edited by ~clover~; October 14th, 2009 at 09:15 AM.
Thats great Skye!
So nice when they are not pooing in nappies, espec when they are MCN's!!!
We have a toilet seat for MJ, she prefers this to the potty, but might be harder with a boy - think you need one with a sheild as otherwise if he wee's at the same time it goes everywhere!
We only have a toilet seat insert for Jazz. I haven't got a potty. I don't want to get a potty unless I have to. I figure that toilet training is a way to not have anything to clean up...a potty is something to clean up. I've been rather slack with having Jazz sit on the toilet. It's hard when working full-time. She's not ready yet anyway. She doesn't even say Poo. She watches intently now when Matt & I go to the toilet though. I was doing a wee the other day and had to keep pushing her out of the way because she was trying to stick her head between my legs and watch. I said to her "what's mummy doing?" and she said "weeee"
She watches Matt and he hates it because there's so much chance of her sticking toys in the loo, and she pushes him while he's standing up. I might get him to either shut the door or sit down to pee for a while. She's also tried to touch him while he's weeing and that's obviously quite bad.
I found a long lost relative on FB. An uncle who has been estranged from our family for over 25 years. I don't know the full story - in fact, I hardly know anything at all. I'm not sure how to tell my mum (uncle is one of her brothers). Also not sure how to tell my nan & pop (the parents). One of my cousin's has been speaking with the uncle as well. She told her mum who said that it's fine as long as he doesn't have contact with the little kids (not sure what happened there, my cousin said my aunty would tell her). Also, this aunty said she doesn't want anything to do with him.
I'm not sure what to do. Anytime he's brought up, everyone seems to clam up and give very little info. I want to know the full story from both sides so I can make my own decision about keeping in contact with him or not.
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