Another great day!! Ethan is doing really well, despite a couple of accidents he had today. Both accidents were more a result of mommy and daddy not paying attention to time and place, rather than Ethan just not going. So, that's good news. He LOVES wearing his cute little dinosaur underwear. He has some Thomas, Cars, and Spider Man underwear but the spidy ones chafe him on the inner thigh. We'll see how the others do after a good washing.
However, if he's focused on an activity...like using his play dough...he won't think to stop and take a break in the bathroom. Which is what happened today. It taught Mike and I that we need to make sure he's used the bathroom before such activities, as well as give him a 15-20 min. bathroom check during his activity.
Unfortunately, we haven't had another successful BM since Sunday afternoon. We are getting concerned about him holding it for so long, because he does constipate easily. We've even offered him the "diaper-out" like the behaviourist suggested, so that he can at least go like he did before in the bathroom. But, he actually refuses to go back into diapers...which is great...but he still needs to go to the bathroom. So, we are going to up his laxative dose tomorrow and see if that helps to move things along!
As for Josh...hehehehe...he's not doing so well. He yells at me when I remind him it's time to use the potty, and doesn't like being disturbed from his playtime now. I'd say the novelty has worn off for him. However, we are keeping him in pull ups during the day, so that if he asks to use it, we can let him try. Who knows, maybe he'll show more interest once Ethan is doing a more regular job.
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I know every child is different, but I will share anyway;) We had a little difficulty with Cameron, and found that we needed to back off a bit. I think you are doing all the right things. Cameron held it in for a few days in the first weeks of potty training, but he does not have constipation issues. With Joshua, he sounds a lot like Cameron. The pediatrician told us we might have been hounding him too much about using the potty. He did not want to stop playing if we asked him to go potty, he would scream at us that he didn't have to go, even though he was obviously doing the pee-pee dance! So, we just made sure he went in the morning, after lunch he had to at least TRY to BM, and then we backed off. Sure, there were a lot of accidents, especially when Damien and I got too comfortable, but he eventually got tired of walking around with a load in his pants. Now, when he is doing the pee-pee dance, we ask and he says, "I'm not doing the dance!" It took a while, but he's there! Keep up the great work Mom and Dad, it's tough, but by college, I promise they will be out of diapers :)
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