Potty Training

I promised my dad that I would never discuss my children's bathroom habits on social networking sites. So this is me not discussing it....

There are certain things I've come to find as a young parent that I was not properly warned or trained for. I stand by the adage that if you wait until your ready/prepared to have kids, you'll never end up having them. That being said, I sometimes wish there had been a bit more prep. in some situations.

Exhibit A: Nursing is hard. Everyone makes it out to be this amazing experience that connects mom and baby. You're told that other than it being the healthiest thing for baby, it makes you feel like a much better mom. This sounds great, right? Sure, if you don't mind being sleep deprived, sore, inconvenienced and self conscious. Don't get me wrong, I nursed B for a full year and am still at it with R after almost 6 months, but can I just tell you how nice it will be when December rolls around and my body isn't either being taken over by a developing fetus or needed for dairy products! I mean I've seriously been pregnant and/or or nursing for almost 3 years straight.

Exhibit B. Sleep training. Now with B it was no big deal because despite the fact that she was an amazing sleeper, there was no one else around for her screams to bother. Now mind you, we live in a fairly small home and R doesn't technically have his own room. So at 3am when I should be letting him cry out, I instead feed him just to get him to go back asleep. We usually repeat this around 6am. UGHHHH! I've been advised by pretty much everyone that it's probably time to start putting cereal in a bottle for him before he goes to sleep at night but my stubbornness just isn't ready to cave....If I can make it to 6 months, than I feel like I've accomplished something. Sad, I know.

And Finally, Exhibit C. B used the "potty" once, I freaked out, gave her a treat and got her on the phone with pretty much every family member so she could tell them. That was 3 weeks ago. Enough said.