I feel like my 8 month old has hit a growth spurt and is moving along at lightning speed...it's uncontrollable! She was just starting to army crawl, then literally days later she was up on all fours. Now she's got that down and is now wanting to pull to stand with everything she can get her hands on. Yesterday she was standing behind her little walker and is now taking steps with it. I laughed at my cousin, whose daughter started walking at 8 months. I may now have to eat that laugh as Reese is getting closer and closer to following in her big cousin's footsteps...quite literally and not figuratively. I don't know if it's the second child syndrome, where she sees her big brother doing everything that she wants to do...or that she's a girl and they just (for the most part) seem to move more quickly.
On the other hand my son seems to be taking steps back. This potty thing is really starting to wear me out. Ethan has always had "poop issues". When he was potty trained last summer he got the "pee thing" down pretty quickly. Had no problems with it, sans a few accidents here and there from waiting too long while playing. But the poop thing has always been something that he's had difficulty with. In talking with other parents I realize that we're not the only ones dealing with this issue...but Come On....seriously. Now he has taken to having a poop "accident" at least 1-2 times a week again. Just last night he wanted to go in the basement to play. From prior experiences, I asked if he had gone poop at Grammy's house today. "Just a little marble poop, mommy". :-) So, I was hesitant to let him go downstairs because last summer when being potty trained, he would disappear into the basement to do his business and then come up expecting us to clean it up out of his underwear. Sure enough, about 20 minutes later he's walking up the stairs holding his butt. Do you have to go, I ask. Yes, mommy. I get upstairs about to put him on the toilet and lo and behold he's already gone in his pants. So, now what I've been doing is making him clean it up himself. Not in a mean or degrading way, mind you. I give him the undies and have him shake the poop in the toilet and then he wipes himself. I usually wind up rinsing the undies in the sink myself, because he's not that good at it...however I feel like if he has to be the one to clean it up maybe he will stop pooping himself. So far it really hasn't made that big of an impact...but I'm hoping we'll make a breakthrough.
I've also started to wonder if something isn't wrong....he did say last night that he doesn't like to poop because it "hurts his butt". I asked him, though, isn't it more yucky to have poop in your undies than in the toliet? Yes, mommy.
I'm open to suggestions. My aunt keeps telling me that my dad did this when he was little and that it's a "boy thing". UGH.
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