#Fluke or #Babygenuis ?

So Day 1-right out the gate, I have success to report!!  This morning, we got up and had breakfast and training started promptly at 9AM! :) I read on one of the blogs that it works best the first few days if you are really consistent and persistent about it and simply sit your baby on the potty every 15 minutes or so.  As I said, we started at 9.  I made the baby signlanguage sign for potty and made the “pssss” sound like I read but nothing happened.  15 minutes later we tried again and had success!!!  Fluke or baby genius???  No joke-she peed in the potty on the second time!  Poor little thing, I think I might have scared her because I started screaming in excitement haha.  Pay dog was also quite intrigued by all the commotion going on as well.  I read somewhere that you are supposed to say “good potty” instead of “good job” so she will keep hearing the word “potty” and associating it so after I calmed down a bit I repeated that several times to her.

Of course I took photographic evidence of the pee in the potty and texted it to all the skeptics!  In the words of my dear friend Maggie, #hatersgonnahate!  Haha  We tried every 15 minutes until about 10:30 and then I could tell she was getting a little annoyed/restless.  So I gave her a break and let her be in her mamaroo for an hour or so to watch some Mickey.  When T came home for lunch around 11:45, we tried again (that way if she did it again I would have a witness this time! Ha).  No go this time and of course her diaper was wet from being in her mamaroo watching Mickey.  I’m charting all this and going to try to get a better idea over the next week or so what her patterns are so that might make it a little easier to help with this.  Some of the blogs say to not keep a diaper on them but I’m keeping one on her for now…I’m not that brave…yet  ;)

We didn’t do any training in the afternoon, mainly because she naps all afternoon and is a little grumpy butt.   I also read that a lot of times you can get them used to going in the potty right before bath time too so I told T we were going to try this.  He was skeptic.  After we got her undressed, I held her on the potty chair, made the “psssss” sound for just a few seconds and Viola!  Pee  numero dos of the day!!!  I thought Todd was going to fall over but at least he somewhat believes this is possible now!  Of course maybe both of these times were just flukes? Or maybe we have a baby genius on our hands? Or maybe just what I read and the videos that I watched really are just the honest to goodness truth that babies naturally know how to use the bathroom appropriately and going to the bathroom in diapers is a learned trait?  Fingers crossed day 2 is as successful as day 1!  Hopefully I’m providing you all with a little daily entertainment-thanks for dropping by to read  :)

 

 ~abe & row