Too sick to care?

We both had colds last week. It was Hannah's first cold (ever!) and my second cold in a row this season. I was pretty worn down, to say the least! She sure didn't seem to care if she wet her pants, and I was too tired to stay on top of it. I did change her as soon as she wet, but I wasn't helping her to remember to go in the potty!

Follow up from previous post

It's funny I posted that about being more mellow with misses, and noticing that we have almost no poop misses. I think that very day we had a full-blown poop-tastrophe! It was OK, but I was wishing she'd hold still while I cleaned up the mess!

I've changed a lot during this process!

I was just thinking about how much I've changed during this EC journey! Of course I want to try to provide my daughter a place to eliminate when she needs to, but there are times when she just plain doesn't care if she goes in her pants! That bothered me at first, but I have finally figured out that it is not a big deal!! At this point, she will generally tell me immediately when she's peed in her pants, and I can change her. Right now she has a cold, and is definitely not interested in sitting on the potty first thing in the morning. OK! Even with the cold and refusing the morning potty, she still stays mostly dry during the day. In the EC forum people often give the advice to just relax and stay cool and enjoy the process. I think I've learned that! I definitely struggled with that during the 7-ish month poop strike! It's a lot easier to stay calm and relaxed when it's just a missed pee here and there! (So maybe it's a combo of EC getting easier and my attitude changing!) Anyway, it's always interesting!

The phases!

I read about the phases of potty independence, and that really put things into perspective! Here they are:

Phase 1: Staying dry reliably with mom's help
Phase 2: Signalling rather consistently, needing occasional reminders
Phase 3: Independence in going potty
Phase 4: Self sufficient, including wiping

I would put Hannah in the phase 1 category, which is pretty cool! Her entry into that phase was rather sudden, actually! After that 7 month potty pause, it was much appreciated! She's been having more misses lately, with the arrival of the lovely canines, but for awhile there she was having misses only every 3rd day or so. I've gotten pretty lazy with the laundry! No need to make sure I always have lots of clean pants.

She's even been dry almost every night for quite awhile. 2 months? 3 months? I can't remember!

3 times in a row, and taking herself potty!

Last night was quite an evening for us! Hannah told me three times in a row using her word for potty that she had to pee! I thought that was pretty neat, and was planning on writing about it here. Then, she took herself potty!

We were playing on the floor, and she looked down at herself like she does when she either has to go potty, is going potty, or has just gone potty. I think I asked her if she was going, but didn't really think about it, because she had just gone three times. Next thing I know, she's sitting on her potty! I wasn't really paying attention, and didn't even see her climb on. She's sat on it a few times before, more just playing with it and she hasn't ever peed in the one that is in the living room. When she got up, I saw that she had peed in it! So she realized she had to pee, got on the potty, and peed! I'm impressed that she coordinated all that!

This morning she told me she had to go, then refused the potty and ended up going on the floor. Maybe it was because it was early morning, I don't know! It's definitely not a linear progression! I just noticed that we generally only have one miss, maybe two, in a day. She's gone at least a week without a poop miss, which is the first time for that in about 7 months!