Update on the diaperless situation

Kiefer's been going diaperless in the day. In fact, he can nap without his diaper and not wet the bed. That's a 2-3hr dry stretch. We still keep him in diapers at night as he still wakes up in the morning with a fairly wet diaper. I wonder if it is just because he has diapers, he'll just pee at night. Anyway, the biggest issue now is that he doesn't tell when he wants to poop. He's pooped in his briefs on 2 occasions already! Just 2 days ago, he stood by the living room window, not moving and darn quiet. I thought he peed on the floor. He kept quiet even though I asked him if he peed (I was across the living room, at the dining table doing some work with Kieran). When I walked over, I realised he was shocked (and probably darn scared that he's gonna get a shelling), there was the biggest pile of poop on the floor! He just went and because he was only wearing shorts and no briefs, the poop simply fell onto the floor. He even stepped on a little of the poop! Luckily, the daddy was still at home and thus cleaned up the mess on the floor while I hauled the little fella into the bathroom to do a major scrub down! He hasn't pooped since that day and today I knew he was going to go and thus brought him to the toilet. But he didn't (or maybe couldn't) go. He asked for diapers but I didn't put it on for him. So gonna start watching for signs of pooping again.

Trying to potty train Kieran

We can't say that we are really training him and we can't say that we are not either. Here's what we've been doing for the last week. 

At Grandparents:

He wears briefs and they are supposed to ask him to go toilet every 1/2h. When I was there in the afternoon, he usually has pee if he is asked to go toilet. But if we forget to ask, he will not say and he will go in his briefs.

At home,

In diapers, cos mummy has no time to clean up pee pee messes. But when he says that he wants to "poot poot" I will quickly bring him to the potty and he goes in there. And he's really cute, he'll go "Tada!" when he sees the poop in the potty. haha!! And then he'll ask for a star for his "Kieran is a Good Boy" chart! :D

No! (to diaper)

Kieran refused to wear diaper this morning. He wanted to wear a specific shirt and NO diapers. At first he didn't even want to put on shorts! I managed to convince him into wearing shorts, and told him that he needed to tell me if he needed to pee. I tried getting him to pee into his potty before putting him into shorts, again he refused. I wasn't going to force him to do so as I am a big worrier of backfiring. So, 5 mins after being in his shorts only, I heard a yell and crying in the living room. There he was, standing in a puddle of pee, afraid to move and pee trickling down his leg. I think he thought that he was going to get a spanking already. So I did the textbook way, told him it is ok, whisked him off to the bathroom to clean up and showed him the potty again.

This is the part where I become inconsistent. I think I am not ready to go cold turkey of being diaperless yet. After we cleaned up, I put him in diaper pants instead of tape diapers. I think I should have continued with the shorts and cleaned the house up a few more times, since he initiated the diaperless move. Too late now. Guess I'll psych myself to try going diaperless cold turkey tomorrow and the rest of the week.

Pooping!

Woohoo!! Kieran managed a #2 in his new potty!!! Good job!!

On the other hand, one more appliance has broken down in the house! My Avent steriliser is broken. I still turns on but it stops the sterilising 1s after i press the button!! Infuriating, since I need to use it 2x a day to sterilise the pumps! And, I already left the spare one at the inlaws. Gotta go get it tmr. Meanwhile gotta wait by the stove to boil the bottles.