Re: potty training....and CF altered milestones

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Jen,

Sounds like your potty training experience almost duplicates mine, i.e.,

was one month short of 3 when she was potty trained, and it happened

VERY quickly. On the other hand, we have been working with (nocf)

since September, and she has only gotten pretty reliable on the potty since

January. And she will be 3 on April 29. Maybe I just didn't try hard

enough with her? (I didn't feel like pushing it.)

Anyway, hope you, hubby and all of the kiddos are OK tonight. A friend of

mine just found out she is pregnant again, and when this child is born that

will give her FOUR kids under the age of 3 (one pregnancy was twins).

Thought of you and your household, which I always picture as chaos, but fun.

(Please don't take that the wrong way!) Best wishes!

(mother of , 11 wcf, and , almost 3 nocf)

potty training....and CF altered milestones

> ,

> this is a perfect topic for cfparents. I remember posting on cystic-l

about

> this very issue with a couple of years back...the only problem was,

> most of the adults didn't remember how hard they were to potty train,

though

> they were all nice enough to email me and try to help anyway.

> Anyway, we played the waiting game with . He still pooped 5-8 times

a

> day at that point and we figured....not even worth trying. So we waited

til

> he was almost 3 and then he just became toilet trained, like, that day....

> This was a little hard for me, because my two older kids were toilet

trained

> at age 2, but I rationalized.... Anyway, he actually had started toilet

> training at one point on his own, but ended up with that damn femoral

central

> line around that time and that shot everything out the window....can't let

> that thing fall in the potty, now can we?

> Mallory is 2 1/2 and we have not pushed it with her either at this

> point....she still has loose stools, and I really would rather it be

> successful. Now, lately, she on her own aske to go poop in the potty and

> does, so gradually she will get there, but we are not getting rid of

diapers

> til she is completely there.

> Thats just my two cents worth. Having toilet trained 5 kids so far

> (including foster kids) it is my personal experience that it is more

> difficult to toilet train a child with malabsorption at a younger age....

My

> sis had the same experience with , her 3 yo with CF....but right

about 3

> she was ready, no matter how " loaded " that stuff was.....

>

> Good luck, if you want just go with our philosphy on it, which was gee,

> remember the good ole days when the things we worried about as mommy's and

> daddy's were potty training, sleeping through the night, first word, first

> steps.....

>

> How come now its stuff like, first poop that didn't float, first

> hospitalization, first bronch, first tune-up, first time swallowing

enzymes

> whole, first pseudo culture.....blah blah blah Boy and Mallory's

baby

> books first milestones are REALLY different than and Miranda's.....

> (course, what do we do about Brit and a, anyway--write, " gee, dunno "

on

> everything...?) Or, we could write stuff like, first time said a sentence

> that did not contain the word Mother F* & ker, etc....

>

> Wow, that was depressing, huh? sorry, and all you asked about was pee in

a

> pot.....

> sorry

> take care

> Jen

>

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