Is the potty strike really at an end!? Today is going so much better! During the potty strike (which has lasted several weeks), I only caught two or three poops and NO pees. Not a single one. No matter how often I took her, she would wait until I had to leave the room without her. She wouldn't pee any time I was holding her or even in the same room, let alone when I made the cue sound and held her over the pot. Then, yesterday I was changing her and thought I'd just give it a try like I have been at least once a day through the potty strike and lo and behold, she peed! I held her over the bathroom sink and I think she likes looking at herself in the mirror. I cheered for her and clapped and she smiled and smiled. Then she stayed dry (in her cloth diaper) until she woke up at 10:00 or 11:00 to eat. Today, I took her after my morning started to settle down and she went pee almost right away! I put her in a cloth diaper and she played on the floor for a while until I took her again, and after a few seconds she went pee! Two pee catches in one day! Hallelujah! It's a been a while since that's happened. Right now she's in a cloth diaper taking a nap. She usually stays dry during her naps, so we'll see if she'll pee in the pot when she wakes up.
I made a little scrunchie that goes around Alaina's waist to hold the cloth diaper on and allow for super easy access when taking her potty. There are a couple of websites where you can buy them, but you just sew a tube and slide some elastic through and close it up. Pretty simple and really effective. Though, not exactly cute.
When we get better at this I want to make some fleece unders (that's what Ryker, my 4 year old, calls underwear--I love it!). They are really cute and they hold one pee miss (just in case) without soaking whatever the baby is sitting on. But you can probably still feel that they are wet like you can through a cloth diaper. I'll let you know how it works whenever I get to that.
I've also been noticing that, like her pooping habits, she just doesn't go pee that often. That really lengthens out our learning curve because we have fewer opportunities for me to teach her my cue sound and get a response and fewer opportunities for me to observe her cues. And if we miss, it's going to be a while before we get another chance. If she went more often, there would be lots of opportunities for us to learn together and a higher likelihood of success and reinforcement. But I'm happy that we are making progress again. And if she's anything like Raelin, she just needed a break and after the break, she'll have it down pat. I've started using the ASL sign for potty as well, and at the rate her motor skills have been developing, I wouldn't be surprised if she starts telling me with the sign when she has to go in the very near future. She's crawling all over the place and, as of today, she can pull herself to standing. I had to lower the matress level in her crib today after I found her standing up holding on to the rails. She's only 6 and half months old!
I made a little scrunchie that goes around Alaina's waist to hold the cloth diaper on and allow for super easy access when taking her potty. There are a couple of websites where you can buy them, but you just sew a tube and slide some elastic through and close it up. Pretty simple and really effective. Though, not exactly cute.
When we get better at this I want to make some fleece unders (that's what Ryker, my 4 year old, calls underwear--I love it!). They are really cute and they hold one pee miss (just in case) without soaking whatever the baby is sitting on. But you can probably still feel that they are wet like you can through a cloth diaper. I'll let you know how it works whenever I get to that.I've also been noticing that, like her pooping habits, she just doesn't go pee that often. That really lengthens out our learning curve because we have fewer opportunities for me to teach her my cue sound and get a response and fewer opportunities for me to observe her cues. And if we miss, it's going to be a while before we get another chance. If she went more often, there would be lots of opportunities for us to learn together and a higher likelihood of success and reinforcement. But I'm happy that we are making progress again. And if she's anything like Raelin, she just needed a break and after the break, she'll have it down pat. I've started using the ASL sign for potty as well, and at the rate her motor skills have been developing, I wouldn't be surprised if she starts telling me with the sign when she has to go in the very near future. She's crawling all over the place and, as of today, she can pull herself to standing. I had to lower the matress level in her crib today after I found her standing up holding on to the rails. She's only 6 and half months old!
