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February 15, 2008
a little progress!
Julia just came up and initiated going to potty, and I am so excited. Our potty journey with Julia has been long (she was taking her own diaper off in August to go) and bumpy. She recently was not interested at all and I was wondering what route to take next. We had exhausted the m&m approach and done toy incentives and nothing was having very long term affects. Her father and I were getting discouraged with each accident and changing her pants and cleaning up after her at every turn. I had a talk with our ped at Caroline's appt and basically decided to press on but change my attitude. I decided that I needed to have the perspective that this is the road we are on now and it would NOT happen over night with her and I needed to be more positive. This sounds easier than it is especially when I am often tired or stuck nursing when it happens. So I am keeping her in panties because I feel like it will be likely to "click" in panties than in a pull up. While I'm not sure if we're in the clear yet, dry panties after nap and her telling me she had to go is a huge step. Can changing my attitude really have had that much affect on her? Lesson learned I guess.
In other news, Caroline is a little sicko. We went to her 4 month appt on Wed and she is congested and they did an rsv test and it was positive. We are watching to see if it moves into her lungs and affects her breathing. Obviously I am praying it doesn't! They also took a urine sample to check due to her kidney reflux (she also had a low grade fever) and she had white cells in the sample so I am currently waiting to hear if cultures grew and its a full blown UTI. UGH! Poor little thing. She does seem happy though and one thing mom is happy about is that she is an incredible, rolly polly- 17 lbs 9 oz!!! She is off the chart in a good way which is so awesome considering Julia was off the chart the other way which caused us lots of stress and worry. I don't even think Julia reached that weight at one year! It's just incredible to me and I am so thankful she's so chunky. It sure does make nursing a better experience when they thrive!
These are just the little boosts that I feel like God gives me to help me to keep getting up each morning. LOL! It's a tough job with 3 little ones at home, but the blessings are so wonderful.
The other night I was out running errands with Lizzie and we ended the night by sharing a cookie at Barnes and Noble. When we were about to leave she turned to me and said, "Mommy, I like when we're together."
Ah, I can definitely face another day. :)
| By JennR | 07:26 PM
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I am with you in the potty training, we have become so frustrated and after Henry was born, I decided she is going to do it when she wants to. I am not going to stress over her for now. The interesting thing is she is potty trained in daycare, she has accidents once in a while, but when she comes home, she will NOT go number 2 in the potty. She does now that she needs to use the potty and she even repeats it for me. The clean up drives me CRAZY. I have given her stickers, candy and done charts but they are not working.
I am sorry to hear about Caroline, I pray that the rsv does not move into her lungs. Congrats on her weight!! wow!! and you are right, it does make nursing a better experience when they thrive.
Posted by: gracie at February 15, 2008 08:27 PM
what a sweet thing for lizzie to say....did you tear up??? i totally would have, and i almost did reading that! by the way, ian is fine, no signs of anything wrong with him. glad to hear that caroline is at least happy.....hopefully nothing will progress and she'll be 100% in no time! we'll catch up soon, and i'm going to get fabric sometime soon...we had a long day saturday and stayed in all day yesterday.
Posted by: erin at February 18, 2008 11:24 AM