Blown away by Kat's latest....

POTTY TRAINING!!! Kat just turned 22 months and recently was diagnosed with pancreatic insufficiency (PI). She started enzyme treatment less than a month ago and has solid 'poop' for the first time in her life! About 4 months ago I pulled out the training potty we saved from our son and sat her on it. She did NOT like it and clearly wasn't ready to even sit on it!! So, I put it away and let go of the idea of potty training any time soon.

However, the other night she appeared to need to 'poop' when she was taking a bath, so I pulled out the training potty and sat her on it and told her to 'push'. She did and I can say she has officially begun the process. Of course, it is easy to say 'that was great timing' on my part. But, we proceeded with lots of praise and a victory dance, and remained skeptical as to whether she was truly ready.

The next evening was an exact duplicate of the above scenario...bath, started to pass gas, pulled her out, put her on the potty and VIOLA!!! More celebration continued. Still wondering if this could be true....I started her bottle this morning, proceeded with getting myself dressed and then took her to change her overnight diaper. I paused and told her...'let's go potty'.

I sat her down and told her to 'push with your tummy'. Less than 5 minutes later, she pooped and peed and clapped for herself!!! NOTE: she had not shown any signs that she was about to poop beforehand!!

Could this really be the beginning of successful potty training at 22months???

The funniest thing about this is she is SO SMALL (est. 16+lbs/27in) from the malnutrition related to the PI, that her feet still don't touch the ground when sitting on the training potty and she is nowhere close to pulling up or walking. I continue to be amazed by her!!

She is NOT going to be happy with me, when she sees this as a teenager, but here's the proof!






Blessings,

Nicole