Glad work went well CP, sorry to hear the DC have been poorly. I hope they're okay now xx
Yes Mous hope it goes well for you x
sotu thinking of you so much....
It seems a bit inappropriate in some ways, but I'll share anyway: we had a nice surprise today from DD (although, this week various things have been leading up to it...) - she basically did her first ever day perfectly potty/toilet trained, with only minimal encouragement from us. The initiative was hers, helped by the motivation of wanting a "big girl bed" and being told she can have one when she's doing all her wees/poos in the potty or toilet (because her friend got a proper bed when her parents realised she needed to be able to get herself out of it easily to use her potty first thing in the morning).
For the last ten days DD has been more and more business-like about doing her poos, although still insisting on wearing a nappy. But the last few days she's only worn a nappy to poo and has wanted knickers otherwise and been very good about using potty/toilet (including a few al fresco wees using the travel pot). Then today when we could see she was "getting the urge", DH asked her (as we always do) if she wanted to use the potty/toilet or have a nappy and she chose the toilet. In the past when she's done so, she's panicked and asked for a nappy, but today she just got on with it. Result!!
I'm not going to assume we're home and dry (arf!) yet, but it's hugely promising! I'm also not going to make the mistake of starting to scale down DD's medication just yet either. But if she continues in this way for a few more weeks, that's when I'll start reducing the sachets of Movicol.
In fact, DD is noticeably more confident in every way now - since the wind phobia was conquered, she's been much more cheery, energetic, obliging, adventurous (including trying new/previously refused foods), sociable and independent. I think it's a combination of getting over her anxieties about the wind and about nursery and the work they've been doing with her at the Montessori.