Fishing for pooh (yes, sorry, TMI!)

Hmmmm, bit of an issue developing. One in which I haven’t the faintest idea what to do and which my myriad of baby books never mention. So maybe the massed ranks of my thousands of readers (well, sometimes tens of readers – on a good day) can help.

Bub has started to pooh in the bath.

Not just a one off though. Four days running. He thinks it’s funny and now tries to do it.

I think it all started when he did a loud fart in the bath and found it hilarious. He was trying to do it again and, oops, did a pooh. This then was even more entertaining as he was whipped out the bath, cleaned off etc. Having had this happen once he keeps trying to make it happen again, unfortunately with great success.

I’m really not sure what to do. I can hardly ignore it so he gets the satisfaction of a reaction. He’s also no way near even starting to be ready for potty training so I don’t think I can try to get him to go beforehand or ask him not too. And I have no idea how to potentially rejig his diet to encourage a pooh at another time.

So, massed ranks, any ideas? I’m drawing a bit if a blank here and really don’t want to spend my evenings fishing for pooh if I can at all help it. Thanks very much in advance!

Milestones

Couple of milestones today for my little man. Firstly he had his morning and evening milk from a beaker not a bottle. He coped very well and was seeming quite happy to use the cup (a Tommy Tippee free flow beaker). Only downside was that it took about twice as long for him to drink them. I think the act is less pleasurable for him so he is less focussed. I won’t be surprised if he starts to have less and less milk over time now.

This does feel like a real milestone. The beginning of the end of him being a baby. Very mixed feelings. I remember when I stopped exclusively breastfeeding and began mixed feeding at around seven months. And when I stopped breastfeeding entirely at around 9.5 months. And now we may be phasing out the bottles. My Bub is definitely growing up.

The other milestone is that today I bought a potty. He’s a very long way off being able to use it and we’re not really thinking about it yet. But I thought it a good idea to get one so he can get used to it being around, play with it, etc.

So the end of one phase and the beginning of another. My Bub is growing up so very fast, fast, fast!

Behind the parenting curve

I’m starting to wonder if we should be doing something about helping Bub get ready for potty training. At sixteen months I know he’s too young to be properly doing it but I’m getting a bit paranoid that we should be familiarising him with the concept at least. I’ve heard that you can do quite a bit to help them get used to the idea: have a potty around, talk and read about it, and play games with it. We don’t even own a potty at the moment.

The reason my paranoia has appeared is because Bub’s cousin, who is almost exactly his age, apparently used her potty for a wee recently. Pretty impressive stuff. She has a potty and she has half an idea what to do with it. I now feel like we’re behind the curve on this one.

I’m finding a few developmental things sneaking up on us at the moment. I read on a baby website that by 13 months toddlers can use crayons to draw with. It had never even occurred to me to give Bub a crayon. So he’s three months behind on developing his drawing, all thanks to my slack parenting. We got some crayons today though and he had a good old draw, though he did spend more time trying to eat the crayons than draw with them… I do now have his first drawing to treasure though, which is fab.

So any tips out there on early potty training? What should we be doing now and when should we think about starting ‘proper’ training? And are there any other toddler activities we should be trying with our Bub?