Three nights in a row now Max has slept a solid six hours at night. He wakes up, nurses, then snuggles up next to me for another two hours before he's up for the day. HALLELUJAH! My boobs haven't quite gotten with the program yet though. They're huge and sore when he wakes up for his feeding and so full that he can only half-empty one boob, so the next two hours he's sleeping, I'm not. I hate the feeling of full boobs. I just hate it. But, I'm too lazy to actually get up and pump them, so I just lay there and snuggle the baby until he wakes up and has another half a boob worth of milk then I pump the rest (which amounts to about two whole ounces, but damn, two ounces of milk IN MY BOOBS sure is uncomfortable to me.)
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PHM has stalled, mostly because I had a "fall off the wagon day", in which I fell, HARD, off the diet wagon. I manged to get up, dust myself off and get back on, but, it sure did kill my momentum. I'm still at a 10 pound loss, but I'm back to having cravings for no-no foods again. Namely the Carls Jr. banana creme pie shake. That thing is CRAZY good.
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Potty training is still on going, and at the rate we're progressing, I'm hoping to have him out of diapers sometime before he starts middle school. It's not that he can't do it. It's not even that he won't do it. It's simply that he's too lazy or just doesn't care. If I take him to the potty every 15 minutes, I could call him potty trained. But it's all me. He will tell me that he is in the process of or has just pooped, but does not inform me ahead of time, and he either isn't aware of or doesn't care about the feeling of needing to pee.
I've tried bribing with candy, letting him blow bubbles in the bathroom after making a deposit, offering to buy him a special toy if he goes a certain amount of time without an accident... He'll be excited about it and do it for maybe a half day and then...meh. Not fun for him anymore. I've even let him run around the house in the buff for a day. That day was, well, soggy. We used up an entire roll of paper towels and I'm now in the market for a new family room rug.
I'm at a loss for what to do other than just keep taking him to the potty on a regular basis and just hope he decides to get it. Anyone who has potty trained a child, specifically a boy, I NEED ADVICE!!!!!
I think for a boy it is definitely a process (the potty) perhaps he just needs some time. Going potty is boring for guys they have to have reading material and tend to take longer, Nathan still waits until last minute/second until he goes #2. and I have to get on his case for even thinking about taking this laptop on the pot with him.(talk to my mom about J.P. I am sure he must have been hard to potty train) Also I would suggest a fun potty chart right in front of the toilet in the bathroom. Maybe print and cutout Diego or Lightning McQueen that moves across the chart when he makes a deposit. Then he has an eye on a goal that is kinda fun in the potty room to help it be less boring(you know something in there that will make him want to continuously be in there). (Perhaps Mcqueen could make to one of his friends and pretend talk to him every deposit) And maybe when Mcqueen reaches the end ..he can go get a little cars character at the store. Something like this and letting Kyle (the boy I nannied) choose what color M&M he wanted after going I think helped him feel more in control and not be so bored with the idea of going on the potty. Love you good luck
ReplyDeleteP.S. I use to take a diaper feel it with hot water and use it to fountain out some of the flow without pumping so I could get less milk to come in and let Lily wean herself slowly. But alas my boobs are different then yours you probably have all the milk that I wished I had.