Actually, that's being a bit unfair. Jamie has been pretty good for the past couple of days and is still doing well with the potty training. He still isn't telling me when he needs to go, but he hasn't had any accidents today and is taking himself to the potty on his own. He's been bare bummed for most of the day in the house, so I still need to work with him on getting his pants down! I caved and bought some pull-ups yesterday for him to wear when we're out. He was in one for an hour this morning when we went to tesco, and for over 1.5 hours this afternoon at the park, and both times they were dry when we got home, so he's obviously able to hold his bladder while we're out.
I'm not sure whether his behaviour might be getting slightly better now, or perhaps it's that his understanding is better so it's becoming possible to reason with him. I still worry when going out for walks, as he's always been prone to refusing to walk anywhere but where he wants to go. I always have some kind of snackage secreted about my person as an incentive (bribe) to get him to go where I want. Today, it took a couple of biscuits to get him to leave the park and walk home nicely, but he did do it and I didn't have to carry out my threat of putting him back in the pushchair if he didn't walk with me (thank goodness for the double!) He had a fab time feeding the "ducks and 'wans", and playing on the "'lide".
We had a bad night with Daisy last night. She woke at 12.30 and didn't go back to sleep after I fed her - instead she became wide awake and was shouting, shrieking and babbling away. In the end I tried to feed her again in the hope of getting her back to sleep, but she refused, and when I put her back in her basket, she was not impressed and started screaming. I tried patting her, putting my hand on her tummy, ignoring her and letting her cry, and nothing worked - she just got more and more hysterical. In the end I picked her up and managed to get her to have a feed, and she did then go back to sleep, but all this had taken over an hour. She then woke again at 4-something and 6am.
It's all really catching up with me, I am totally shattered today and absolutely desperate for a decent night's sleep. Controlled crying is looking like it might be our only option, but it's going to be SO hard if we do it, especially as she's in our room. We did it with Jamie but he was in his own room and so there was a bit of distance between us and him that made the crying slightly easier to bear. I don't know, I think I need to stop feeding her in the night as she's become reliant on it to go back to sleep, But then, what if some of the wake ups are due to hunger? She's only small so they might be. I'm going to put up the travel cot tomorrow and see if she'll nap in there instead of the moses basket, as she really will grow out of that soon.
Right, off to bed for me, hoping and wishing for a better night tonight *yawn*.
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