Potty Training - The Ups & Downs

Addison I would say is 95% potty trained. But it has been a hard road to get to this point. The first few days (Saturday, Sunday & Monday) she just didn't get it. We put her in underwear and she kept using the bathroom on herself. She would get upset, we would clean her up and then a few hours later she would do the same thing all over again.

Finally on Tuesday she got it. She peed on herself once Tuesday morning and then she didn't pee or poop the whole day until right before dinner. I kept asking her and taking her to the bathroom, but she just won't go. Finally right before dinner she peed a little, but she cried while she did it. We just thought she was being fussy. After dinner she kept grabbing herself and we could tell she needed to go to the bathroom, but every time we took her she would not go. She started crying, so we put a diaper back on her and told her it was okay for her to pee in her diaper. She still would not go to the bathroom. We tried all evening to get her to go, but she wouldn't. So we finally put her to bed with a diaper on.

The next morning she woke up at 5:00am screaming and crying. When I got her up I could see that she REALLY needed to use the bathroom, but she wouldn't. She screamed and cried all morning. As soon as the doctor's office opened I called and asked them to please see Addison ASAP. The nurse could hear Addison screaming and crying in the background. She told me to get there as soon as I could and they would get me in to see a doctor asap.

And they did. Right after I checked in and was about to sit down they called us back to see a doctor.

Now here is the heart wrenching part. They told me in order to diagnosis a urinary track infection they had to have a urine sample. I couldn't even get Addison to pee in her diaper and they wanted me to get her to pee in a cup. But SHE DID!

I asked her to please pee into the cup and it took her a little while but she did and she screamed the whole time. I almost started crying. It really hurt her to pee, but she still did it. I was so PROUD of her.

Turns out she had a urinary track infection (which I already knew by that point). They gave her antibiotics and some other instructions for making her feel better.

So all of that happened on Tuesday. From that day on she has used the bathroom in the potty and has only had one accident. It has been a full week. So I think only one accident in a whole week is pretty good for someone who just a week ago wouldn't pee in the potty at all.