My number today, 14DPO, was 211! Yay! My number at 12DPO was 53.5, so that's just shy of quadrupling (literally, like 2-3 points shy of quadrupling).
As excited as I am about that number, and the glorious rise, it's a little freaky. We are hoping for just one baby, not multiples. But I just keep reminding myself how Noah's betas were higher than that on those same days, and they quadrupled too, so I could very well just have one little nugget in there, and not two or more. Like I said yesterday, your betas don't really tell you anything.
BUT, the ultrasound does. And Brad, the nurse/business manager at my clinic, wanted to book my first u/s on Feb. 27th. That's 3.5 weeks from now! I would be 7 weeks 5 days. I do not want to wait that long to find out what's going on in there! I had been talking to Meghan, (another nurse there, who happens to be Brad's sister, who has been there since I was doing treatments the first time) and she said that they could get me in earlier than 7 weeks. I was asking her how early I could have it because I already look so pregnant, and in 3.5 weeks I'm going to be a lot bigger. So I just want to have the ultrasound out of the way so we can tell people (like my inlaws) and not have to hide at home.
Brad was so hesitant to book me any earlier than that. It's a very long story, but my ultrasound is now booked for Wednesday February 22. Brad was very reluctant, saying how I might not be able to see the heartbeat "that early," and I was trying to explain to him that that is a completely safe day to have your ultrasound and be able to see a heartbeat! If I go by exactly how my RE dated my pregnancy with Noah (with the day of the IUI being Day 1 of actually being pregnant), then I am exactly 7 weeks on that day. Even if I go by the way I originally thought things were dated, I would be 6 weeks 6 days.
So I explained this to him and he told me I was over thinking it.
Ummm, no, I am not over thinking it. I am thinking about it the exact right amount. I am not using some stupid Baby Center due date calculator, I am just dating my pregnancy exactly the way it was dated - BY THAT CLINIC - when I was pregnant before. How is that over thinking it? I am speaking to you completely logically to explain to you why I am comfortable having my ultrasound on that day, and why you should be fine with it too, and you're making me feel like a psycho idiot.
I was so annoyed. Yes I am pregnant, but I am not irrational. Yet.
Anyway, he got me all nervous that I might not see a heartbeat on that day, and feeling like I should have kept my 7 week 5 day ultrasound. But this is absurd, right? Has anybody out there had an ultrasound at or before 7 weeks (or 6 weeks 6 days.. or even 6 weeks 5 days, just to be ridiculously safe) and not had a heartbeat?? I have heard of no heartbeat at 6 weeks, but never that close to 7 weeks. I know anything is possible, but I feel like that would be very rare.
Soothe my fears, please :)
So, 20 days and we find out how many Bambinos are in my uterus!
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
12DPO Beta
I didn't mention yesterday that I went to the RE and got a beta done. At 12DPO it was 53.5. The nurse was so excited, saying that was "high" for 12DPO. She got Justin all excited with all of her excitement. But I was just... I don't know. My beta with Noah on 12DPO was 88.7. 88.7 on 12DPO is really high, so I knew my beta this time around would most likely be lower than that. And I know that's not anything to worry about, since it's still high for that day. It's just the fact that I experienced a higher beta than that that made me... I don't know. I knew I was pregnant, and I was super excited over that, so a beta of 53.5 was just "information."
I am curious what my next beta will be, and I can't deny that I am really curious about how many babies I have in my belly. Six mature eggs gives you a really high chance for multiples. But my next beta will not give me a single clue about that. With Noah, my betas were:
12DPO - 88.7
14DPO - 342
That is quadrupled in 48 hours, not just doubled, and the numbers were much higher than the "high" betas. My betas on each DPO with Noah were much higher than everybody I've known who was pregnant with twins. And I was well within the normal range for triplets. Obviously I had a singleton (which I was expecting), so it just goes to show you that you can't pay too much attention to those numbers. As long as they're rising, you're good to go, but other than that? Just wait for an ultrasound.
By the way, I am 4 weeks today and I can definitely tell. I am lightheaded and dizzy. I am a little more tired than usual, but I can't sleep well, and have been up 3 hours earlier than usual for the past 3 days. I am hungry all the time. And the indigestion that plagued me early on when I was pregnant with Noah is starting to appear off and on.
Oh, the joys of pregnancy!:)
I am curious what my next beta will be, and I can't deny that I am really curious about how many babies I have in my belly. Six mature eggs gives you a really high chance for multiples. But my next beta will not give me a single clue about that. With Noah, my betas were:
12DPO - 88.7
14DPO - 342
That is quadrupled in 48 hours, not just doubled, and the numbers were much higher than the "high" betas. My betas on each DPO with Noah were much higher than everybody I've known who was pregnant with twins. And I was well within the normal range for triplets. Obviously I had a singleton (which I was expecting), so it just goes to show you that you can't pay too much attention to those numbers. As long as they're rising, you're good to go, but other than that? Just wait for an ultrasound.
By the way, I am 4 weeks today and I can definitely tell. I am lightheaded and dizzy. I am a little more tired than usual, but I can't sleep well, and have been up 3 hours earlier than usual for the past 3 days. I am hungry all the time. And the indigestion that plagued me early on when I was pregnant with Noah is starting to appear off and on.
Oh, the joys of pregnancy!:)
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Forced to Become a Hermit? (4 Week Pictures)
I am just barely 4 weeks pregnant and I am huge. Well, huge for a 4 weeker, not huge for a person in general.
2.5 weeks ago my stomach was still totally flat when I got up in the morning. Then my giant ovaries (with 6 mature eggs and many other medium sized eggs) gave me some bloat. Then my uterus was already quite big 3 days after the IUI. I could feel it at least an inch above my pubic bone. That combined with my big ovaries gave me even more bloat.
Then my uterus grew more. It is several inches above my pubic bone. I am a thin person (almost 5'10", about 135-140lbs), but I have never had any extra room in my abdomen, so as soon as something extra is in there, it has to go out front. My belly will be flat to start out, but if I eat a big meal or START GROWING A HUMAN, it all goes out front.
However, not usually anything like this.
Granted, these are taken at the end of the day, so I am a little larger than I am at the beginning of the day. But at the beginning of the day, my stomach is about the size of the second picture.
It will just keep growing. When I was pregnant with Noah I popped super early (my pants fit at 3.5 weeks, and at 4 weeks I couldn't button them up anymore), and I kept growing steadily. By 7 weeks I was literally the same size as one of my friends at 31 weeks (granted, she was ridiculous tiny, and it was very hard to believe she was even pregnant).
We won't have an ultrasound until 7 weeks. How am I supposed to keep this hidden for the next 3 weeks? Maybe I'll have to become a hermit. We were at my inlaws today (who we aren't telling until after the ultrasound, because we want to pretend like we are normal people and not infertility patients) and I felt so obvious. I was wearing a big baggy wrap/shrug thing that I tried to keep hiding my belly, but as you can see from the above pictures, the belly is kind of hard to hide. I did not look like that the last time they saw me 2 weeks ago. I felt like I had "PREGNANT!" written all over me!
I am definitely not one of those people who just looks chubby when they get pregnant. My belly gets round fast. And I'm fine with that, because I never wanted to be someone who people looked at and thought "Is she getting really chunky?" well into the second half of my pregnancy. I'm a little embarrassed by my ridiculous belly at 4 weeks pregnant, because I know it's not normal, but I'd rather look pregnant than chunky. But it would be kind of nice if my belly would hold off on the crazy growth until we had our first ultrasound!!
(All that being said, I am certainly not complaining, and I love my ridiculously big 4 week belly:)
2.5 weeks ago my stomach was still totally flat when I got up in the morning. Then my giant ovaries (with 6 mature eggs and many other medium sized eggs) gave me some bloat. Then my uterus was already quite big 3 days after the IUI. I could feel it at least an inch above my pubic bone. That combined with my big ovaries gave me even more bloat.
Then my uterus grew more. It is several inches above my pubic bone. I am a thin person (almost 5'10", about 135-140lbs), but I have never had any extra room in my abdomen, so as soon as something extra is in there, it has to go out front. My belly will be flat to start out, but if I eat a big meal or START GROWING A HUMAN, it all goes out front.
However, not usually anything like this.
That is what I look like now, normally.
This is me sucking is as much as I can:
Granted, these are taken at the end of the day, so I am a little larger than I am at the beginning of the day. But at the beginning of the day, my stomach is about the size of the second picture.
It will just keep growing. When I was pregnant with Noah I popped super early (my pants fit at 3.5 weeks, and at 4 weeks I couldn't button them up anymore), and I kept growing steadily. By 7 weeks I was literally the same size as one of my friends at 31 weeks (granted, she was ridiculous tiny, and it was very hard to believe she was even pregnant).
We won't have an ultrasound until 7 weeks. How am I supposed to keep this hidden for the next 3 weeks? Maybe I'll have to become a hermit. We were at my inlaws today (who we aren't telling until after the ultrasound, because we want to pretend like we are normal people and not infertility patients) and I felt so obvious. I was wearing a big baggy wrap/shrug thing that I tried to keep hiding my belly, but as you can see from the above pictures, the belly is kind of hard to hide. I did not look like that the last time they saw me 2 weeks ago. I felt like I had "PREGNANT!" written all over me!
I am definitely not one of those people who just looks chubby when they get pregnant. My belly gets round fast. And I'm fine with that, because I never wanted to be someone who people looked at and thought "Is she getting really chunky?" well into the second half of my pregnancy. I'm a little embarrassed by my ridiculous belly at 4 weeks pregnant, because I know it's not normal, but I'd rather look pregnant than chunky. But it would be kind of nice if my belly would hold off on the crazy growth until we had our first ultrasound!!
(All that being said, I am certainly not complaining, and I love my ridiculously big 4 week belly:)
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Pregnancy #2 Makes Its Debut!!!
I was looking online and found all these pictures of tests from early-pregnancy-tests.com, the tests that I have been using. They might be sensitive, but their lines seem to stay SUPER light for a REALLY long time.
I couldn't handle the suspense anymore so I ran to the store and bought some First Response tests.
THAT, my friends, is a positive pregnancy test at 10DPO. It's faint (especially in the picture), but it's there.
I can hardly begin to explain how we're feeling right now. I think I might explode with joy.
Whoop whoop!!! Noah is on his way to becoming a big brother!
I couldn't handle the suspense anymore so I ran to the store and bought some First Response tests.
THAT, my friends, is a positive pregnancy test at 10DPO. It's faint (especially in the picture), but it's there.
I can hardly begin to explain how we're feeling right now. I think I might explode with joy.
Whoop whoop!!! Noah is on his way to becoming a big brother!
10 DPIUI
(Yeah that's right, you're getting a boring obsessive day by day play by play of this whooollle process. Aren't you glad? If you don't want to hear about pee sticks, scroll down and there's a post about how I manipulate my toddler.)
The line is getting darker as time goes on, and I can maybe see the line from 2.5 to 3 feet away (in crappy lighting, mind you) but it's 17 minutes past when I dipped that sucker. So I can't take anything the test does now as proof of anything.
Oh my gosh, this stupid test is so mean! I wish I bought the ones that were sensitive to 10mIU! I just didn't think I'd be so obsessive and testing everyday. I never did that with Noah when I was doing treatments because I HATED seeing negative pregnancy tests.
Oh my gosh, this stupid test is so mean! I wish I bought the ones that were sensitive to 10mIU! I just didn't think I'd be so obsessive and testing everyday. I never did that with Noah when I was doing treatments because I HATED seeing negative pregnancy tests.
I guess it's another day of suspense, waiting until tomorrow morning!
Saturday, January 28, 2012
How I Manipulate My Toddler
A fellow mom blogger, Kerri, recently posted about her son's picky eating, and asked for some suggestions on how she might deal with it. I am definitely no parenting expert, I'm only an expert on my own kid. But as I was writing my reply to her, I realized that I was writing things about Noah that I hadn't written on my own blog. I do this a lot. In my comments to other people I tell stories that happened or post my thoughts, and I think "Man, I really should put this on my own blog so I can remember this." But I don't.
This time I'm going to.
I've never gone through food struggles that badly with Noah, but he has gone through some picky phases. And he stopped liking any kind of vegetable when he was about 12 months old, whereas before 12 months he liked vegetables just fine. Once he turned 1, if he put a vegetable in his mouth (he was exclusively feeding himself by them), he would just open his mouth and let it fall right back out.
I kept offering him vegetables for 5 or 6 months, but then I just stopped. I still put vegetables on our plates, but I didn't bother putting any on his plate. He wasn't eating them anyway.
Believe it or not, after about 2 months of not being offered vegetables, Noah started asking for them off of our plate. One day he ate ALL the vegetables off of my plate. It's like he forgot he didn't like vegetables just because I stopped giving them to him. Because he didn't "get to have them" like Mom and Dad, it made him actually want them. It's not like vegetables are his favourite food now, but he does usually eat some at every dinner. Score one for Mom.
I have found with many crappy behaviour stages Noah goes through, if I ignore it and don't push it, it goes away. For example, 2 or 3 months ago Noah would cling to my legs and SCREAM everytime I tried to make dinner. Actually, he did this when I tried to make any meal at all, really. He would get SO upset that he would throw up. It was torture. For both of us. So I quit. I stopped making dinner unless Justin was home to play with him (which meant that about 4 out of 7 night a week, I didn't make dinner). I would throw a pizza or chicken strips and fries in the oven, or I would cook meals on the weekends and freeze them so I could throw them in the oven with very little effort. I just didn't actually cook unless Justin was home to distract Noah.
I just realized tonight as I was making dinner (and Noah was just playing in the kitchen with me and walking around my legs) that he hadn't been having tantrums while I was cooking in awhile. I just stopped cooking while I was home alone with him, and after awhile he forgot that he hated it when I cooked.
If Noah was going through a super picky-eating phase, I think what I would do is stop trying. I would just give him something he would eat, like grapes and Goldfish. Just something boring, not a lot of options on his plate. Justin and I would sit down to eat our yummy dinner, and Noah would sit in his high chair and just get a boring snack. Our past track record indicates that after awhile, Noah would forget to be so picky and would want to eat the same things we were eating, because these things were no longer actually being offered to him.
Besides the vegetables, I have another example when this worked recently: Noah was in love with clementines when they first came out this winter season, and he wanted to eat 10 of them every day. However, after a couple of months we pretty much couldn't pay him to eat a clementine, and we'd get a whiny "Noooo!" if we asked. So we stopped offering them to him for a couple of weeks, and he just recently started asking for them again.
So that is how I manipulate my toddler. I'm not saying this method definitely works for every kid, but it certainly works for mine!
This time I'm going to.
I've never gone through food struggles that badly with Noah, but he has gone through some picky phases. And he stopped liking any kind of vegetable when he was about 12 months old, whereas before 12 months he liked vegetables just fine. Once he turned 1, if he put a vegetable in his mouth (he was exclusively feeding himself by them), he would just open his mouth and let it fall right back out.
I kept offering him vegetables for 5 or 6 months, but then I just stopped. I still put vegetables on our plates, but I didn't bother putting any on his plate. He wasn't eating them anyway.
Believe it or not, after about 2 months of not being offered vegetables, Noah started asking for them off of our plate. One day he ate ALL the vegetables off of my plate. It's like he forgot he didn't like vegetables just because I stopped giving them to him. Because he didn't "get to have them" like Mom and Dad, it made him actually want them. It's not like vegetables are his favourite food now, but he does usually eat some at every dinner. Score one for Mom.
I have found with many crappy behaviour stages Noah goes through, if I ignore it and don't push it, it goes away. For example, 2 or 3 months ago Noah would cling to my legs and SCREAM everytime I tried to make dinner. Actually, he did this when I tried to make any meal at all, really. He would get SO upset that he would throw up. It was torture. For both of us. So I quit. I stopped making dinner unless Justin was home to play with him (which meant that about 4 out of 7 night a week, I didn't make dinner). I would throw a pizza or chicken strips and fries in the oven, or I would cook meals on the weekends and freeze them so I could throw them in the oven with very little effort. I just didn't actually cook unless Justin was home to distract Noah.
I just realized tonight as I was making dinner (and Noah was just playing in the kitchen with me and walking around my legs) that he hadn't been having tantrums while I was cooking in awhile. I just stopped cooking while I was home alone with him, and after awhile he forgot that he hated it when I cooked.
If Noah was going through a super picky-eating phase, I think what I would do is stop trying. I would just give him something he would eat, like grapes and Goldfish. Just something boring, not a lot of options on his plate. Justin and I would sit down to eat our yummy dinner, and Noah would sit in his high chair and just get a boring snack. Our past track record indicates that after awhile, Noah would forget to be so picky and would want to eat the same things we were eating, because these things were no longer actually being offered to him.
Besides the vegetables, I have another example when this worked recently: Noah was in love with clementines when they first came out this winter season, and he wanted to eat 10 of them every day. However, after a couple of months we pretty much couldn't pay him to eat a clementine, and we'd get a whiny "Noooo!" if we asked. So we stopped offering them to him for a couple of weeks, and he just recently started asking for them again.
So that is how I manipulate my toddler. I'm not saying this method definitely works for every kid, but it certainly works for mine!
I Want to Go to Bed!
This morning I took a test. I knew it was most likely way too early for anything to show up, but I just needed to know if it was positive. If it was positive, I could be super excited. If it was negative, at least I wasn't spending the whole day wondering if it would have been positive if I had taken it.
So I took the test, and it was negative. But within about 10-15 minutes it had the most CRAZY evaporation line. It was such a strong line that it got me excited.
Now, hear me out. I know my test was negative. It didn't have a pink line within the 5 minutes of reaction time. I'm not an idiot. But I have never had an evaporation line like that. Never. It came so quickly, and it was so obvious. There were 2 lines on my test!
In my life I've spent 25 cycles trying to get pregnant, and have only seen 2 lines on a pregnancy test in ONE of those cycles. So seeing two lines on that test, even if one of them was an evap line, still felt encouraging. I'm one of those crazy POAS-aholics right now, thinking, "Well, maybe there was just the smallest hint of HCG and that's why the evap line was so dark?? It wasn't enough to turn it pink within 5 minutes, but it was enough to cause a dark evap line?"
And that is why I want to go to bed. I am excited to wake up tomorrow morning and maybe, just maybe, have a positive pregnancy test. It's still only 10DPO tomorrow morning, so a negative won't be definitive. But hey, it might be positive!
So I took the test, and it was negative. But within about 10-15 minutes it had the most CRAZY evaporation line. It was such a strong line that it got me excited.
Now, hear me out. I know my test was negative. It didn't have a pink line within the 5 minutes of reaction time. I'm not an idiot. But I have never had an evaporation line like that. Never. It came so quickly, and it was so obvious. There were 2 lines on my test!
In my life I've spent 25 cycles trying to get pregnant, and have only seen 2 lines on a pregnancy test in ONE of those cycles. So seeing two lines on that test, even if one of them was an evap line, still felt encouraging. I'm one of those crazy POAS-aholics right now, thinking, "Well, maybe there was just the smallest hint of HCG and that's why the evap line was so dark?? It wasn't enough to turn it pink within 5 minutes, but it was enough to cause a dark evap line?"
And that is why I want to go to bed. I am excited to wake up tomorrow morning and maybe, just maybe, have a positive pregnancy test. It's still only 10DPO tomorrow morning, so a negative won't be definitive. But hey, it might be positive!
Friday, January 27, 2012
8-9DPIUI Blather
I need time to go faster. Tomorrow is only 9 days post IUI... way too early to test. I just really want it to be Monday or Tuesday. I JUST WANT TO KNOW!!! If it's negative I just want to move on. I'm finding the mental games of the past 9 days to be so excruciating. It's not fair that I can't even know if one of the eggs got fertilized. Maybe none of them even got fertilized, so obviously then there's no way for a pregnancy to occur, so then I'm just waiting for my period to come. I'd rather know that none of them fertilized than still be waiting.
If this cycle is negative, I don't even know if I really want to do an IUI next month. Seriously, this is exhausting. It's mentally and emotionally exhausting. I don't know if I want to do this again already next month.
I never ever would have taken a break when doing treatments with Noah, because I was desperate. But now that I'm not desperate, I can understand how people going through infertility take breaks from trying. I couldn't understand it before, but I do now. It would allow me a mental and emotional break. Before Noah, it would have eaten me alive because I would have had NO chance of pregnancy, and some chance of pregnancy was better than NO chance of pregnancy. But now that I'm at a different place in my life and I already have a child, the burden of doing treatments might be just as bad as knowing I have no chance of getting pregnant that cycle.
I don't know what we'll do. It's also going to be February and possibly really bad weather. Doing our IUI last week during that awful snowstorm was stressful. I was 20 minutes ahead of a 28 car pileup where 2 people died. It's scary to think of what might have happened. Maybe we should wait until it's nicer weather.
I guess we'll see how I feel when we find out for sure whether this cycle worked or not. Justin will go along either way. Obviously the two week wait is a lot easier on a man than a woman.
If this cycle is negative, I don't even know if I really want to do an IUI next month. Seriously, this is exhausting. It's mentally and emotionally exhausting. I don't know if I want to do this again already next month.
I never ever would have taken a break when doing treatments with Noah, because I was desperate. But now that I'm not desperate, I can understand how people going through infertility take breaks from trying. I couldn't understand it before, but I do now. It would allow me a mental and emotional break. Before Noah, it would have eaten me alive because I would have had NO chance of pregnancy, and some chance of pregnancy was better than NO chance of pregnancy. But now that I'm at a different place in my life and I already have a child, the burden of doing treatments might be just as bad as knowing I have no chance of getting pregnant that cycle.
I don't know what we'll do. It's also going to be February and possibly really bad weather. Doing our IUI last week during that awful snowstorm was stressful. I was 20 minutes ahead of a 28 car pileup where 2 people died. It's scary to think of what might have happened. Maybe we should wait until it's nicer weather.
I guess we'll see how I feel when we find out for sure whether this cycle worked or not. Justin will go along either way. Obviously the two week wait is a lot easier on a man than a woman.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Alphabet, Sounds, and Shapes Update
I'm pretty sure I didn't do a 21 month post, nor did I do a 22 month post... I'm not even going to bother doing those right now. But I wanted to do an alphabet update, because that's one of the main developmental things that has gone on in the past couple of months.
My last alphabet update was when Noah was 21 months old, and he knew all of his letters. All 26 letters of the alphabet, without any prompting. He knew all the capitals, and about half of the lower-case letters.
By the time he turned 22 months old he knew all of the lower case letters, along with all the uppercase letters. BUT, by 22 months he also knew ALL of the letter sounds. All of them.
He can also build many of the letters out of duplo. A month ago, after we bought the duplo (we just had mega bloks before), Justin made an E and showed it to Noah. After that Noah wanted us to make all the letters (and after we made them he would take them gently, and say "Thank you!!!" in an amazed voice). Now he makes some of them on his own, like M, F, L, T, I, I, U, and J.
The alphabet is just one of his favourite things. And seriously, this kid loves to learn. He has known all 11 of the main colours since about 18 months. He has also known most of the shapes for several months (circle, oval, square, rectangle, triangle, star, diamond, and heart). And when I say he knows them, I mean that he will show you that shape (or colour, or letter) and tell you the name of it. Not that we say "Where's the star?" and he picks it out.
Obviously I am very impressed with my kid:) And so is everybody else, really. Strangers can't believe it when he gets going.
By the way, my impressive kid is not having a nap today. I had a friend and her baby over today and we were having such a nice time that I completely lost track of time, and before I knew it, it was 3:00. If I put Noah to bed at 3, he wouldn't be asleep until 3:30, then he would sleep until about 4:30, and then he wouldn't go to sleep until 10pm. So we are trying to skip a nap completely today. So far so good, although it is 4:15 and he has started to get a little whiny, which is not his norm. He's also slightly clumsy. Haha.
My last alphabet update was when Noah was 21 months old, and he knew all of his letters. All 26 letters of the alphabet, without any prompting. He knew all the capitals, and about half of the lower-case letters.
By the time he turned 22 months old he knew all of the lower case letters, along with all the uppercase letters. BUT, by 22 months he also knew ALL of the letter sounds. All of them.
He can also build many of the letters out of duplo. A month ago, after we bought the duplo (we just had mega bloks before), Justin made an E and showed it to Noah. After that Noah wanted us to make all the letters (and after we made them he would take them gently, and say "Thank you!!!" in an amazed voice). Now he makes some of them on his own, like M, F, L, T, I, I, U, and J.
The alphabet is just one of his favourite things. And seriously, this kid loves to learn. He has known all 11 of the main colours since about 18 months. He has also known most of the shapes for several months (circle, oval, square, rectangle, triangle, star, diamond, and heart). And when I say he knows them, I mean that he will show you that shape (or colour, or letter) and tell you the name of it. Not that we say "Where's the star?" and he picks it out.
Obviously I am very impressed with my kid:) And so is everybody else, really. Strangers can't believe it when he gets going.
By the way, my impressive kid is not having a nap today. I had a friend and her baby over today and we were having such a nice time that I completely lost track of time, and before I knew it, it was 3:00. If I put Noah to bed at 3, he wouldn't be asleep until 3:30, then he would sleep until about 4:30, and then he wouldn't go to sleep until 10pm. So we are trying to skip a nap completely today. So far so good, although it is 4:15 and he has started to get a little whiny, which is not his norm. He's also slightly clumsy. Haha.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Potty? Meh.
That's my opinion, not Noah's.
I kept Noah in diapers all day today. I really didn't want to deal with the stress of watching and waiting for him to poop. I really didn't think he would do it on the potty, and I was worried about it ending up on one of our bedroom carpets. Plus by the end of yesterday both his butt cheeks were COVERED with an angry red pimply rash. It cleared up overnight on it's own while he was diapered. It was like his delicate bum skin couldn't handle being exposed all day long.
Tonight Justin and I went out on a date and left Noah at my parents' house for a few hours. When my mom was changing his diaper he didn't want a new diaper on, so she let him run around nude. He didn't have a single pee accident (exact same as yesterday), and always went pee in the potty.
BUT, he pooped on her floor.
I knew it! I KNEW he would poop on the floor before he would poop in the potty!
I'm not going to try and push it. I don't even want him to be potty trained right now at this age, so I'm certainly not going to bend over backwards to try to get him to poop on the potty when it doesn't seem to be something he wants to do. Yes, he can control his bladder and hasn't had a pee accident, but poops are an important part of the equation.
I'll stick with diapers for now, thanks. Hopefully one day he will just suddenly be fine with pooping on the potty. But like I said, at this age, I am totally fine with diapers, and I'm not going to push for it.
I kept Noah in diapers all day today. I really didn't want to deal with the stress of watching and waiting for him to poop. I really didn't think he would do it on the potty, and I was worried about it ending up on one of our bedroom carpets. Plus by the end of yesterday both his butt cheeks were COVERED with an angry red pimply rash. It cleared up overnight on it's own while he was diapered. It was like his delicate bum skin couldn't handle being exposed all day long.
Tonight Justin and I went out on a date and left Noah at my parents' house for a few hours. When my mom was changing his diaper he didn't want a new diaper on, so she let him run around nude. He didn't have a single pee accident (exact same as yesterday), and always went pee in the potty.
BUT, he pooped on her floor.
I knew it! I KNEW he would poop on the floor before he would poop in the potty!
I'm not going to try and push it. I don't even want him to be potty trained right now at this age, so I'm certainly not going to bend over backwards to try to get him to poop on the potty when it doesn't seem to be something he wants to do. Yes, he can control his bladder and hasn't had a pee accident, but poops are an important part of the equation.
I'll stick with diapers for now, thanks. Hopefully one day he will just suddenly be fine with pooping on the potty. But like I said, at this age, I am totally fine with diapers, and I'm not going to push for it.
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