day seven April 5, 2008

after the mid morning nap, took him to the twoilet. we actually put his potty in our bathroom this time, normally we always did it in the bathroom by his nursery. there is less distraction in this toilet and i wondered if the change of scenery would affect him. he peed and then had a little floater. seems like he knows to instantly pee once put on it. i will say that we aren’t so hard core, that we’re trying to go diaper-free or that we think we can catch every pee. i can’t really say that i can sense any communcation about peeing . . but putting him on the toilet is starting to cause him to pee once situated on the toilet. today was not as much as he has pooped so it was just a little. the rest of the day i felt off, kept thinking he needed to poop and my instincts seemed off. he seemed more cranky than normal today. i started to wonder if he was more cranky when we didn’t catch his communication. i also think that changing his elimination habits is also affecting his personality . . i mean, it does mean that he’s more mature for having these milestones on the toilet. i wonder if when we don’t understand him if it frustrates him. if we put him on the toilet when he doesn’t have to, if it frustrates him too. i put him on the toilet before feeding him and i felt disappointed because he didn’t have to go. he ended up taking a nap and then we got ready to go for a walk. during our hike he was pretty happy, i was chatting away with a girlfriend as we neared the end of the hike. all of a sudden he broke out in c r a n k y. i had been checking his diaper all day b/c i didn’t have the sense that i was on today and when i checked there was poop. i carried him to the car to change him and what happened was quite new. he was quite upset at a diaper changing. really, this was only the 2nd #2 diaper changing in seven days. he wasn’t liking this.  he was changing, he was over sitting in any poop, even in the time it took me to get a diaper and change him was not quick enough.  have we created a monster? are things going to start getting harder? i didn’t get it right for the rest of the day. gave him a bath, put him on the toilet. i got pee. but not much else. still i feel good. my first goal was to just get him to poop once ever. so far, i have gotten some form of poop at least once a day. today, was the least that i had gotten.  i also have to mention that things were so off today, it seemed i was breastfeeding more than he was taking to any solids. now it’s getting serious and i want to start considering getting cloth diapers.

i want to stick to this, but running around during the day can add strain to the intuitive part of it all. today was the first day, i felt that it was time consuming. actually, today was the first day, (saturday) that i didn’t have much to do . . maybe i was trying to hard?