[blparent] Potty Advice (was Intro from a new mommy)

Sat Apr 28 02:38:50 UTC 2012

If he isn't interested, I'd just wait.  Maybe give him some books that he 
can only read in the bathroom, and there are always those annoying potty 
videos with the catchy tunes about using the toilet.  My daughter was three 
and a half, and everybody I knew seemed to be nagging me about why she 
wasn't trained, till one day she just decided she was done with diapers, and 
that was that.  In a couple of weeks, we had no accidents at all, even at 
night.  So, not that I know everything, but I'd just wait till he shows 
signs that he's ready.

Oh, and I saw a product at Babies R Us that looked interesting.  It was a 
watch that a kid could wear, and you'd set it for every twenty minutes or 
any interval you wanted, and when the potty time song played on the watch, 
it was a clue for the kid to go potty.  The package said the watch would 
eliminate parental reminders, or nagging in other words.  But I could just 
see my daughter ignoring the watch, or taking it off and tossing it in the 
bushes if she was too busy to be bothered with going to the toilet.  So 
again, my strategy would be to wait.

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of 
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of 
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "Peggy" <pshald at neb.rr.com>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 8:15 PM
To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Intro from a new mommy

> We saw those um I think they were peepee teepee's ... things that you put 
> on their um little pistols before they can pee, personally, by the time I 
> got that on, wipes out, whatever, he'd probably pee everywhere anyway!! 
> Loved the story about the boy peeing in his own eye, my middle son was 
> famous for that one!!  Now mine's ready to potty-train, any suggestions?? 
> He won't be 2 until next month and isn't showing an interest in the potty 
> at all ... it's been um over 10 years since I've potty-trained a toddler, 
> help!!
>
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Erin Rumer
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 10:22 AM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Intro from a new mommy
>
> Yes, and feel free to be liberal with the baby wipes so you know you've 
> got
> everything.  Depending on the type of poo I'd simply do a quick but bath 
> if
> it is that really fudgy stuff that smears easily or that grainy poo that
> kind of almost roles right off the skin and gets every ware.  I love 
> keeping
> soft dry wash cloths near the changing area to dab baby dry and when he 
> was
> younger I would cover him with a clean paper towel while changing him so 
> he
> wouldn't shoot me with his loaded pistol! GRIN  I'm not remembering who
> makes them right off the top of my head but there are some nice soft paper
> hand towels out there that I used for a short time when my son was a 
> little
> guy and I really liked them because I could just keep the box right on his
> changing table and pull out a sheet with one hand.  I remember them being
> around $2.50 for the box.  If you want to get really fancy I saw on
> television that they make something called a Pee Pee TP that you place 
> over
> a little boy's penus.  It didn't look like it did anything a towel 
> couldn't
> do but I thought it was an adorable name if anything.  Something else I do
> that has always been very productive in making sure my son is dry is 
> simply
> blowing air on him.  I turn it into a game and call it "Wind tunnel time"
> and my son cracks up every time I do it.  It's even stopped him from 
> crying
> on multiple occasions because he thinks it's so funny.  Thankfully my 
> son's
> only had one bout of diaper rash and that's because we switched laundry
> detergents and he had an allergic reaction, but I wanted to let you all 
> know
> that the diaper rash cream that I can't brag enough about is a cream 
> called
> Avalon.  This is a cream you can find in more of a natural food store. 
> It's
> an awesome cream that doesn't have all the perfumes, dies and chemicals so
> many of the other over the counter creams have and it has wonderful 
> natural
> oils in addition to the zinc oxide which is a key ingredient needed for
> clearing up that rash.  It cost me $10 and I didn't mind spending the 
> extra
> few bucks because it worked and was natural.  This made me feel so much
> better because it not only is stuff that goes into their little bodies
> through their skin but they love putting their hands in everything that 
> goes
> down there.
>
> Happy changing,
>
> Erin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Peggy
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 7:28 AM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Intro from a new mommy
>
> Wow, from one blind parent to another, great description of the diaper
> changing process ... Not sure girls are easier than boys for wiping but 
> they
> usually only pee on themselves if they pee and not up the walls or in your
> face or their face ... or in someone's soda can *great story*!!  The only
> other thing I can suggest is to keep a roll of paper towels or a dry burp
> rag or something, after wiping, especially when I was a new mom, I would 
> dry
> everything off and then feel for remaining poop, helps sometimes when the
> area isn't wet.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brandy W
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 1:31 PM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Intro from a new mommy
>
> Hi, Welcome! My name is Brandy, and I provide child care in my Michigan 
> home
> to 3 sweet little boys twin 4 year olds, and a 16 month old. My niece was
> that exact weight and was born early for the same reason. We often joke 
> that
> she has never been uneventful. She's had random health problems her whole
> life, she's only 7 and many they say from her being early.
>
> As for the poopy diaper thing I tend to use more wipes than I probably 
> need,
> but When I open the diaper I hold the babies feet up in the air with the
> fingers of my left hand around the babies ankles, and with my right hand I
> use the part of the diaper that was over the front to kind do one swipe 
> down
> and back to try to get any large chuncks. I then pull the diaper off the 
> pad
> and leave it to put dirty wipes in. I continue to hold the babies feet up
> and use a wipe to clean the babies middle of their bottom and parts, and
> then a clean wipe for each but cheek. I then get one last wipe all around,
> at this point I just use my hand that is clean because I've been using 
> wipes
> and touch. Poop often doesn't spread as much as one may think. I find the
> wetter the wipes the better, and when it is really bad I use wet wash 
> cloths
> instead of disposable wipes. I find the cleaner wetter wipes like 
> babyganics
> or huggies are better than the loves or pampers because they don't add 
> extra
> slimy feeling to the process.
>
> Good luck it can be a messy job.
>
> Bran
>
>
>
>
> "To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out 
> is
> a spark."
> - Victor Hugo
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Bernadetta Pracon
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 11:20 PM
> To: blparent at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Intro from a new mommy
>
> Hi Tammy,
> Thanks for introducing yourself.
> No, I'm not blaming myself for the preeclampsia at all. I know there 
> aren't
> any specific factors that cause it as far as the pros can tell.
> I'm just glad they caught it in time; I had no idea about it until I went
> for one of my routine prenatal visits and discovered that my blood 
> pressure
> was through the roof.
> I know I may be stepping on a landmine here, but my personal opinion is 
> that
> people really shouldn't blame themselves for various things that occur
> during a pregnancy, such as it resulting in a CSection, or any conditions
> that may crop up while carrying a little one. It's sad when someone gets
> upset over not having been able to give birth naturally, etc. etc. It 
> seems
> so trivial; Such a small price to pay when the end result is a healthy 
> baby.
> I myself planned on natural birth, was totally against being induced into
> labor, and was entirely set on exclusively breastfeeding. Well, wouldn't 
> you
> know it--I ended up having to be induced, the induction failed so I had a
> CSection, and my baby had to be suplemented with the evil formula because 
> he
> couldn't get the hang of breastfeeding and was losing weight rapidly. Go
> figure. All that considered though, I have no qualms over how it all went.
> Sure, things didn't go as planned, but do they ever? All in all, as I've
> mentioned before, my baby is healthy and that's all that matters. People
> come into this wold in various ways, under differing circumstances. Yet
> we're all here, all the same
>
> All Best,
>
> Bernadetta
>
>
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