No More Diapers!

Potty training Abby started back in January.  Emmy was potty trained by her second birthday, so of course Abby would be too.  I figured that would give us a couple of months before the baby came and hopefully she wouldn’t regress too much.  I certainly wasn’t going to have two children in diapers!

Well, surprise, surprise, Abby is not Emmy.  She wasn’t quite ready before she turned two and then our summer turned into vacation after vacation and potty training on the road is a nightmare.  So I had two in diapers, and it wasn’t all that bad. 

 A couple of weeks ago, Abby started telling me every time she peed of pooped in her diaper and would demand I changed her right then.  I decided that when we ran out of diapers I wasn’t buying anymore.  The time had come.  I started to lose my nerve as the stack of diapers dwindled.  What was a I thinking trying to potty train with a brand new baby and little sleep at night?!?!  Then one evening as I was filling the bathtub with a naked Abby looking on, she suddenly turned walked a couple steps to her little potty, sat down and peed.  She knew she needed to go, she knew there was no diaper to catch it, so she went on the potty.  That showed me that she really was ready.  We went to the store and bought a few prizes for her to earn by going potty, and set the start date for Monday.

And so, this past Monday I prayed for extra patience, moved the little potty to the kitchen (where we spend most of our time and it is tile floor for easy clean up), and put Abby in undies.  She was quite willing to sit on the potty and put stickers on her chart and went every couple of hours when I asked her if she needed to go.   We didn’t have any accidents all day!  That evening as she was eating dinner she suddenly grabbed her undies and scrambled down from her chair.  I helped her get to her potty, and she peed the rest in the potty.  Day one: one partial accident.

Tuesday was accident free until the evening as well.  She peed while playing outside in the backyard and was super upset about it.  I was really glad she cared!

Since then, she has been accident free and even worn undies to bed!  I know we are not officially potty trained yet, but I am SO happy with her progress.  Overall it has been fairly pain-free.  Let’s hope it continues!  I look forward to the day I can relax and just wait for her to tell me when she needs to go.  Until then, I’m happy to not spend money on size 4 diapers!