Potty Training Tears and Joys (Mommy’s Journal)

We potty trained Esrene for poo since she was few months old. Everything went very well until when she turned one year old when she started to have constipation. Her constipation was pretty bad that she suffered with anal fissures and haemorrhoids at the same time. Can imagine how painful she was when she poo. To make the matter worse, we have to put suppository into her anal to help her poo each time. From that day onwards, pass motion is a scary thing for her.  Whenever we put her on the potty she will cry and refused to poo, but eventually she will. For her to willingly go to the potty for poo is an impossible thing. From that day onwards, she always poo in the nappies instead. So now to be fully successful in potty train Esrene for poo, we really have to be patient and continue to pray that she will overcome her fear to poo.

We started to train Esrene to wee in the potty only one month ago when Tim, Audrey and Shanna came for visit. After seeing how successful Shanna is trained to wee on the potty, we decided to take the first step. It was challenging to train an active toddler. She couldn’t sit still on the potty to wee firstly because she is not used to it. The funniest thing is that she was shocked when she see her own wee, as if she never know what is “wee wee”. It was very tiring to train her initially having to deal with the mess afterward. With the big tummy, squatting up and down to clean up the mess is tiring. However after training for a few weeks,  finally she know how to wee on the potty when we told her to or even walk herself to the potty when she wants to wee. Even though she is still not fully train to wee on the potty but it is very close, much much better than her “number 2”.

We hope that she will be fully potty trained before her sibling comes. Anyway we are very proud for being able to learn it up so quickly.