Let’s Talk Babies

As I mentioned in my first post about our adventures in potty training, we are taking things nice and slow at this point.  Right now we are in the “getting to know the potty” phase.  No real pressure on Maya to use the potty instead of the diaper to do her “business”.   Every time I have the diaper off I ask her if she needs to use the potty, or if she has that “I’m about to poop” look on her face I ask her as well.  If she wants to give it a try we give it a try, if not that’s okay too.

It has been working out pretty well.  She had a cold and a bout of toddler diarrhea a couple of weeks ago which pretty much halted out potty training adventures for a while.  We started getting back into the swing of things last week.  It has been a challenge to get her to return to trying to pee on the potty since our little break.  She has gone a couple of times, but now when I ask I usually get the “No, already pee, no potty.” response.  We have made a little headway in the poop department though, yeah!  Before our break she had only peed on the potty.  She was still getting used to the whole process and I think the idea of going poop on the potty scared her.  Well, last week she happened to mention that she needed to poop as I was changing her diaper before nap time.  I asked her if she wanted to try going on the potty and she said “oh ya, good.”, so off we headed to the bathroom to give it a try.  Success!!  I made a big deal about it, cheering and clapping for her.  You could just see how proud she was of herself.  Her favorite part was flushing and saying “bye-bye poopoo”.  It was darling.

Since then we have had two more poops on the potty.  One the same day as the first when she had to show daddy how she could go poop on the potty now.  And, another yesterday.  Lorne noticed that she had that “look” and asked her if she needed to poop.  She came running to me and said she needed to “poopoo on the potty” and she did.  I think this is a big step in the right direction, being able to recognize that she needs to go and taking the initiative to ask to use the potty.  I’ve read that kids recognize the signs that they have to poo before they recognize the signs that they have to pee.  I think we are probably a couple of months away from the “let’s try it with out a diaper” phase, but we are making progress and I’m very proud of her.

One day she’ll hate me for posting this picture of her, but it’s so cute I couldn’t resist.  She’s apparently taking tips from daddy on how to use the potty!!

The US government announced a new national campaign today called Text4Baby that will use cellphones and text messaging as a means to get healthy mother, healthy baby tips out to millions of expectant mothers all over the country.  The campaign is being sponsored by several organizations and companies including the National Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition, [Read the rest]

So, is it proper etiquette to have a baby shower for a second or subsequent baby?  Do second babies deserve a baby shower or is this a right reserved only for the first born?
There seems to be two schools of thought on this subject.  There are those who are old school and think that a [Read the rest]

You wake in the middle of the night with incredible cramping pain in your legs.  Ugh, leg cramps.
Pregnant women are very susceptible to leg cramps, particularly during their second and third trimesters.  Leg cramps are a sudden tighten of the muscles that can cause intense pain.  When you are awoken in the middle of the [Read the rest]

Maya’s absolute favorite place in the world to go is the zoo.  She adores animals and would all day, every day there if she could.  Luckily we have a fabulous zoo just down the street from us.  We take her as often as we can because it’s fun and I love how happy it makes [Read the rest]