My Dollie Baby

Date: 3 July 2011 (Sunday)
Subject: Poo Training
Racia is 4 years 3 months, 4 weeks and 1 day old today.

For the longest time, we have not been successful in potty training racia to poo. She has long since been trained to go off diapers and has no problem peeing in the toilet. However when it comes to pooing, she just refused and insist on pooing in the diaper.

My mission this maternity leave was to successfully train Racia to poo in the toilet. The past week, i have been prepping her that once her pull ups runs out, we will need to poo in the toilet!

Finally today, there were no more pull up pants. I took her to the toilet and we sat there for 10 mins and nothing came out.

I read up online and decided to use a reward system as an incentive to encourage her to poo in the toilet. I drew up a chart and she earns a sticker with every successful poo in the toilet. After 5 stickers, she gets to pick out a toy (any toy) she wants and i will buy it for her.

At the 2nd try this evening, daddy sat in the toilet with her for close to 20mins, i did everything that all the online articles suggested, i gave her warm water, daddy read to her and distracted her so that she is not too tensed. In the end, she successful pooed in the toilet.. This is really a milestone achieved.

Let's hope we will be successful tomorrow again!