Juan Or's Potty Training Updates

It has been a long time since Mommy last wrote updates about Juan Or's potty training. This is a flashback of Juan Or's past chronological history of his potty training:

• 9-10 months old: Knows how to instinctively urinate or pass motion when seated on the potty.
• 12-13 months old: Goes nappy-less during daytime only (but at the babysitter's house only!) and periodically put on potty to urinate to which he did. 

Now Mommy is reporting his updates starting from where Mommy last stopped:

• 13-23 months old: No progress on Mommy's effort to potty train Juan Or as we were still staying in the in-laws' house because in his paternal grandparents' presence, he would refuse to do many essential things such as drink milk, eat solid food and conform to routine schedule. Also if Mommy was to bring the potty training effort to higher levels, Mommy could foresee a lot of reprimanding/scolding on Juan Or which will 100% lead to quarrels with the in-laws as they always go all out to comment or criticize Mommy for going hard on Juan Or. We moved out of the in-laws' house when Juan Or was 23 months old.
• 24-27 months old: Still no progress on Mommy's part to potty train Juan Or as Mommy was still getting used to the routine of staying on our own and at the same time juggling with the most stressful part of Mommy's job, i.e., preparing the documents for programme accreditation renewal from the Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA).The only insignificant effort that Mommy made was to put him to sit on the toilet bowl (with the kiddy adaptor) when he said he wanted to pass motion, but he was too terrified to sit on the adaptor!
• 28-29 months old: Mommy started to bring potty-training to a higher level whereby Juan Or went diaperless in the daytime when at home. Generally he won't have accidents but he tends to have accidents when Mommy scolded him for something unrelated to potty training. So probably in times of stress, he lost control of the muscles that control urination.By then, Juan Or is also no longer terrified at sitting on the kiddy adaptor on the toilet bowl when passing motion.
• 30-33 months old: Juan Or is already capable of going diaperless without accidents when at home, regardless of whether it's daytime or night, but Mommy dared not let him go diaperless when sleeping through the night. Also when Mommy disciplined him by scolding (and beating), he no longer has accidents. However, when we go for outings, Mommy still put on the diaper for convenience. And just because he had the diaper on (even when at home), he won't bother to tell Mommy that he wants to urinate or pass motion - he would just let it all go into the diaper!
• 33-34 months old (at present): Just because Juan Or had the diaper on, he would just let go without telling. One day, just after changing into a fresh diaper to prepare to sleep, he 'shitted' into the fresh diaper which made Mommy very angry! So Mommy punished him by making him sleep through the night in standing position (but upper part of body was leaning on the side of the bed) and with him still wearing the soiled diaper! Sure enough, the lesson taught him well and from that day onwards, he told Mommy that he wanted to pass motion even though he had the diaper on. Yippy! ^_^
• 34 months old (at present): Mommy decided that it's high time to train him to go diaperless throughout the night. So on the night of 27th March 2011, Juan Or went diaperless. Mommy asked him to go urinate first before sleeping to which he said he had no urine. Mommy remembered checking whether his shorts was wet or not at about 2am, it was not wet, so Mommy went back to sleep. Another check done at 4am and his shorts and the mattress were all wet! Mommy was furious and scolded (and lectured) him repeatedly! Mommy even threatened that should he wet his shorts and mattress again, Mommy would impose the sleep-standing-up punishment on him again. Sure enough, the scolding and threat worked and he didn't wet himself nor the mattress on the nights of 28th and 29th March. He even obliged to go urinate at the toilet bowl when Mommy asked him to. Anyway, on Mommy's part, Mommy also woke him up at approriate intervals to go urinate to which he did, sometimes with fuss, sometimes without fuss. Anyway, Mommy's objective is reached already! Yippy! :-D

 Photo of Juan Or sleeping soundly, diaperless and without any accidents for the first time ever taken on 28th March 2011 at 6.22 am. 





What about his leftover unused diapers? Mommy will now reserve them for outings only (for convenience sake) and also leave some at the in-laws' house since they still have not successfully potty-trained him in their own house.

Potty Hat!!??

This is an outdated post dating back to 26th June 2010.

Juan Or was up to his antics again, this time by using the potty as his hat! Your first reaction might be,"Yucks! He has shitted in there before and now he is putting it on his head!?" Don't be mistaken, the potty was actually a brand new one. Because it was brand new, Mommy allowed some leeway for him to play with it (since he loves playing with it so much!) since he has never peed nor poo-ed in it. Otherwise if he has done any of his businesses in there before, Mommy won't allow it at all.

By the way, some time after this video was taken, Juan Or has finally urinated in that potty. So one day, after he has urinated in it, Mommy put the potty aside and asked Juan Or to lie down on the floor so that Mommy could wipe his private parts and put on a fresh diaper. You know what he did? He somehow forgot that he had just urinated in the potty, so his hands reached out for the potty to try to put over his head and the urine poured onto his face! A lesson of a lifetime for Juan Or! ^_^

Juan Or's Potty Training

Mommy hadn't been doing much potty training on Juan Or because Juan Or spends a big part of the day with the babysitter. So it's the babysitter who has been doing most of the potty training on him. If Mommy is not mistaken, when Juan Or was around 9 or 10 months old, the babysitter told Mommy that he already instinctively knows how to pass motion when seated at the potty. The babysitter told Mommy that Juan Or's typical routine goes like this:

• drink 8 oz. of milk immediately when Juan Or is send to her house (morning)
• playtime (morning)
• nap (late morning)
• eat porridge or other solid food (afternoon)
• sit on the potty to pass motion (afternoon)
• take bath (afternoon)
• drink 8 oz. of milk (afternoon)
• playtime (afternoon)
• nap (afternoon)
• eat porridge or other solid food (mid-afternoon)
• playtime (mid-afternoon)
• nap (late afternoon)
• finish up whatever solid food left if any (late afternoon)
• playtime (late afternoon)
• drink 8 oz. of milk (late afternoon/early evening)
• playtime and wait for Mommy to pick Juan Or up

Then just about two weeks ago, the babysitter told Mommy that she's training Juan Or to do away with wearing the nappy during daytime. So she will just let Juan Or wear a pair of shorts without wearing nappy, and then periodically put Juan Or on the potty to urinate. And he did!

As for Mommy's side of potty training Juan Or, whenever Mommy wants to bath him, Mommy will put him on the potty first and then whistle. Mommy also puts Juan Or on the potty whenever Mommy changes his diaper. Sometimes he urinates, sometimes he doesn't, but most of the time he did. And Mommy also noticed that if Juan Or already starts to fret when sitting on the potty, that means he's done with it. And the result is usually there's urine in the potty! What about passing motion? There was only one occasion with Mommy when he passed motion into the potty. But at that time, Juan Or was constipating and Mommy only found a piece of 'small round dark brown marble' in the potty.

(Watching the TV as Juan Or sits on the potty to urinate.)

(Still waiting to urinate.)

("I'm done already! Faster! Take me out!!")

(Somehow Juan Or just hates to sit on the new type of potty which Mommy bought recently from the Hytex Warehouse Sale. This potty is more stable, yet he hates it!)