Thanks for all of the adivise

Thanks to everyone who commented or sent emails. Y’all have given a lot of good advise.

He is taking 2 steps forward and 1 step backwards. So, I guess I can’t complain about that too much. But I must say now that he is showing me that this lack of potty training is behavior, my patience is running thin. Unless he is leaving the house, I am just keeping him naked. Hubby looked at me tonight like I was nuts when I covered J’s chair at the dinner table w/ a crib mattress pad to keep it dry b/c yes, J came to the dinner table naked. I am not giving him the opportunity to have an accident. If you are wondering, he treats underwear like a pull-up. So please do not judge. I will do what I have to do to get this boy potty trained!

J met his second teacher today. (He will be attending a typical PreK 2 days/week in the morning and still PPCD in the afternoon. He beings this PreK program next tuesday at St Elizabeth Ann Seton.) I met the teacher last night at Parent’s Orientation, and she is super excited to be working with J. She told me they will have an aide in there for part of the day, b/c she really wants to work with J. She was so eager to be able to help J. I did not want to tell her he was just there for socialization. I was really cute today b/c J met another little boy in the class. When we were leaving, I told J to go and tell him goodbye. He walks over to him and gives him a bear hug. That other mom looks and me and said her little boy was a hugger too. Good thing b/c J will give hugs whether the other person wants one or not.

Potty Training

I know I have lamented about this topic before. I have asked the preemie group their advise on the matter. NOTHING is working. Over the past several months, we have been racking our brains to figure out what to do to get J potty training. We have gone all over the place – control, not having the sensation to “go,” sensory by not being able to have his feet on the ground, etc. Let me explain what it is like trying to get him on the toilet. I ask him to go sit on the potty – His response is “no” – I ask him again to go and sit on the potty – “uh, no” – I physically put him on the potty – he squirms and screams to not get on it – I get him on the potty and he just sits there doing NOTHING.

He is now most days waking up with a dry diaper. Friday I was determined that he would go on the potty. He and I had a show down. The above scene played out. We had an hour and a half until meet the teacher. I figured we had plenty of time. Boy was I wrong. He held it for an hour. I knew he would not “go” unless he had a diaper on. I refused to put one on him no matter how much he asked. He did not sit on the potty the whole time, but he was doing the cross the legs and jump around to keep from going. HE WOULD NOT GO ON THE TOILET. 8am hit and meet the teacher was starting and he has not had breakfast or gotten dressed. He won. I put the pull up on, and he peed so much he was puddling in the diaper. I got to run him to the bathroom and give him another bath and mop the floors where he had left a trail. Needless to say, I was none too happy. This is more than likely TMI, but I need help. I need the mommies in blogland to let me know how they have won this war. I know J is out of the ordinary but any advice is wanted. I am also throwing this out there for Heather too. I spoke with her last week about this b/c her little girl has been “stubborn” to potty train too. Heather, if I get any good advice I will pass it along.