As I have mentioned previously, we have been having MUCH difficulty in completing the potty training of Nate! He just refused to sit on the potty and poop! We tried EVERYTHING!!! I got to the point the other day of pure frustration. I am having a hard time bending over to clean up the mess. I was tempted to put him back in diapers but was fearing he would then regress on the potty!! Especially with the triplets arriving!
Wednesday this week, I had it! I called the Pediatrician because short of beating him I was out of ideas! He told me that with toddlers they have found they like to have control over one of 3 things - eating, sleeping or toilet training. Well Nate really has been a champ with the first two, although lately its been harder to get him to eat vegetables. I backed off that and would give him fruit with his dinner instead. He started eating veggies again. So, maybe the doctor was on to something here!!! He also told me to drop the emotion. No more Oh Nate, why didn't you tell me! Don't you feel it coming!!?? If that doesn't work we were to go back to rewards again but again no emotion. If he pooped in his pants we were to say, oh, too bad you don't get XYZ treat.
So I dropped it. I didn't say anything more to him or put any pressure on him to go poop. This afternoon, he was dancing around the kitchen trying to figure out which garbage can to put the paper towel in (thank you San Francisco for mandating the recycling program). It looked to me like he needed to go potty. So I simply said, Natey, do you have to potty? He said yeah mom! Off he went to the bathroom. I left him be like I normally do. A few minutes later, he says to me, mommy, I went poo poo in here. I am already disgusted thinking, great, maybe we're getting closer in that he is heading into the bathroom to poop in his pants!! But instead, I go into the bathroom to see my precious little guy, pants down, sitting on the toilet! - OMG he pooped on the potty. I started screaming! I wiped his bottom and was telling him I was so proud of him! He asked me if he could have his robot back!! YES, YES, YES!!!! I then asked if he wanted to tell Nana, so we picked up the phone and called her and Grandma. Then he decided he wanted to wait to tell Daddy when he came home from work. Jim came in the door and he announced to him that he went poop in the potty. Jim was all excited and then asked me- did he really?!?! LOL.
So a very exciting night in the Porter household for sure!!!! If I could I'd have a glass of wine to celebrate!!! :)
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