Update On Potty Training

Forgive me Owen...Mama couldn't resist! You just look so cute sitting there reading your books.

Like I've stated in a previous post we recently experienced a MAJOR setback with potty training. Mama was at her wits end with this boy, but I'm telling you a few minor tweaks here and there and 2 weeks of exercising patience and he is doing better than ever. PTL!!!

What happened?

We'll unfortunately Owen got a little stomach bug around the end of September and it freaked him out. He did not like the uncontrollable feeling he was getting and he was getting sore. So to combat that he decided to just NOT go...for days at a time. It got to the point where when he would go after sitting on the potty screaming for 20 minutes...he would bleed. It was this awful power struggle as well. We had also been disciplining Owen if he pooped in his pants, but we decided to ease up on that because we noticed that he was scarred to go in general. After making a call to his pedi we put him on Miralax to help move things along and make it not so painful. Wow...that stuff works! There were accidents, but I was just happy for him to get it out. He had been acting out of sorts for days and now we knew why. I can't imagine having all that stuff stuck inside of you would make you feel very good. Some of the other changes we made was bringing back out the little potty chair, reading tons of potty books and watching Elmo's Potty Time...over and over and over and of course tons of praise! :) He is a completely new kid now. We aren't giving him Miralax anymore and he's still doing great. He is now telling us he needs to go pee and poo and he's so excited to go potty in his little potty. He loves getting a chocolate too! In fact now he's going poo almost every time he needs to go potty. I know this may sound funny if you're not a parent, but this is such an accomplishment in a little guys life.

We are so proud of you Owen!!!