{"id":110,"date":"2008-04-17T04:00:17","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=110"},"modified":"2008-04-17T04:00:17","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T10:00:17","slug":"potty-talk-volume-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Potty Talk, Volume V"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bridget is getting better at being able to control her bladder and her bowels. And the PEZ dispenser prize chart was working pretty well for awhile. She was going about a week to a week and a half without an accident.<\/p>\n

But then she started regressing something serious – on the order of an accident a day for 3 days, then a day or two dry and we begin again. The only good news is that accidents usually only involve a small leak in her underwear now. We don’t have too many puddle accidents anymore. And she stays dry at night – that’s good.<\/p>\n

She filled up one potty chart, and we started another. The sad faces represent days where she had accidents.
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\nShe has gotten 3 PEZ dispensers so far, but its been several weeks since she’s earned the latest one. Wilber Robinson has been hanging on the back of the bathroom door for the past three weeks.
\nLinguini – 2\/29\/08
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Mater – 3\/16\/08
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Shrek – 3\/26\/08
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\nThere was one day that was pretty hard. She had some sort of diarrhea that she couldn’t control. She went through 6 pair of underwear and a pull-up in about 2 hours one night. She had a couple of stars toward her goal that week, and I didn’t want to punish her for being sick with diarrhea – but how do you really explain to a toddler that this doesn’t really count as an accident?? Do you see where I am coming from? Anyway, I ended up neither counting that day toward her goal or against it.<\/p>\n

Since then though, she’s had a rough time keeping dry for any real length of time.<\/p>\n

ALSO, last Friday she decided that it would be a good idea to pee in a bucket in her bedroom. She came out naked from the waist down, so we put her on the toilet – later to find out that she’d already gone potty in a pink plastic Easter bucket. Argh! She did it twice again on Sunday – one of them even included a #2. The most recent time (Sunday evening) she peed in a small plastic drawer that belongs in her play kitchen. She tried to dump it out in the sink by herself before coming to tell me. Of course that meant that we had some carpet cleaning to do too. Have any of your kids done anything like this? Its disgusting, and its driving me nuts.<\/p>\n

In summary, I think that while she has more control over her bladder\/bowels, she is also more careless (or perhaps overly confident). I typically don’t have to tell her to go potty anymore – she’ll just do that on her own. I guess you could say that the progress is slow, but improving overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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