I was really hoping that my middle child, who is 23 months, would hold off on potty training until the baby is done breast feeding. That was one of the challenges I had with potty training my son – it seemed like every time I sat down to breastfeed, he would need to go pee.
But I guess when a child is ready, she’s just ready and there’s nothing you can do about it. I know this is terrible but I got so stubborn about not wanting to potty train her that she would tell me that she had to go pee and I told her “It’s ok, you’re in a diaper.” (Only when I was breastfeeding of course.) Then she’d get mad at me and whine “toilet”. So obviously she wants to be potty trained – so we’re going with it. She’s doing really well, and has only had one ‘accident’ in the week that we’ve been training.
It still is rather frustrating for me to stop breastfeeding to run to the toilet with her, but she is doing really good and I guess that’s all that matters.
The other frustration is now the two older kids are fighting over who gets to use the toilet first! If one of them is using the toilet, then the other has a fit because they want to use it! It’s not like we don’t have enough toilets in the house. There are two regular sized and two small people sized! I guess it’s just another case of “I want it because he/she has it.” I just never thought that they would be fighting over a toilet!
Kids are funny!
