Most Mom's would agree that as soon as you brag about something new and wonderful your child is doing, it all goes out the window, so I have been waiting just a bit to write this post and I think I can honestly say we are 100% diaper free!
I started this potty training a LONG time ago. Whitney was approaching her first birthday, I was flipping through my trusty Baby Whisperer book and came across early potty training. As I read, much to my surprise, she recommended starting between 9-15 months! What!
So, I eagerly kept reading. She likes this time because it is before they can say "No", they still want to please you and really it just becomes part of their daily routine. Also, she said up until the 1950's 80% of kids in the U.S. were potty trained (boys and girls) by the time they were 18 months. People had somehow gotten on the bandwagon, of "oh, they will let you know when they are ready, here are all the signs", but really we need to teach them and just make it part of their day.
I was totally on board and with in a few weeks we were down to only about 4 diapers a day. A few months later maybe just 1 or 2. By 16 months Whitney was definitely ready, but she was going through a horrible time with her molars coming in, so I decided to wait. Dec 1st, she was 18 months, and we made the move to underwear.
I will say the first week was pretty rough. She was so confused and we had many accidents. But then it just clicked and she has been in undies ever since during the day (including naps). We have had accidents over the last year, but really they have been few and far between. Now I thought nighttime diapers were going to be around for quite awhile, so I just put that out of my head. Then in August when we moved Whitney to her big girl bed, I reminded her during her nap that we didn't want to go potty in her big girl bed. She very much agreed. And much to our surprise, for the last 6 weeks she has woken up in the morning completely dry.
I thought, maybe just maybe we could go without, but not ready to take the plunge imagining nights of getting up and changing the sheets. Then last week Tim forgot to put a diaper on her and when I went to change her in the morning I was shocked and excited that we had gone a night in underwear.
We made a comment to Whitney about how she was such a big girl sleeping in underpants but then decided not to make a big deal about it and to just go with it. It has been a little over a week and we have been accident and diaper free!! Yay!
Now, please...don't let this backfire on me!
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