April 2011 - We understand no but we choose to ignore it.

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Welcome Aprilites

Hi hi
Hope everyone's well now
Yes to youngest A and threenager S!

TMI warning!!! All about poo. On Monday, S did a poo that was a bit hard and scratched him a bit and made his bottom sore. This made him a bit unwilling to do a poo on Tuesday but he still did. Then on Wednesday evening, having held on all day, he did a massive and quite hard poo with much whimpering and hasn't done a poo since. :( It's ouchy in his bottom to do a poo and he doesn't need to go, thank you. I know it's not desperate stakes yet but he's very grumpy and obviously uncomfortable and I really want to try to help him before it gets really bad. I suffered myself when I was younger and it's just so miserable. Am trying to be encouraging but not go on about it, have given him masses of fruit and cloudy fruit juice laced with prune juice and sat him infront of the telly on the potty. Nothing yet. Any suggestions? And hugs, please, I think I'm far more upset than him..... Sorry for the essay!

Poor iccle. Orange juice?

Thanks, Kitty - actually the prune juice did do the job. Bless him, I'd explained to him in great detail how the prune juice would make it all squishy so it would come out ok so he insisted on clutching a mug of it to his mouth WHILST on the potty.......like a holy relic......still, did the job. My brave boy! Goodness me, the things one does.....

Sorry Daisy but that made me laugh! Bless him! They do get attached to the strangest things.

This is such a weird age I'm finding. M suddenly comes out with random things like 'I'm sorry, mama, it's my fault' when there's nothing visibly wrong. I think it's really hitting home that some of the stuff I say when I'm cross is going in and being regurgitated. Mummy guilt trip :( I seeing encouraging signs of growth social awareness though, which is good because I was starting to worry about his apparent inability to think of other people. I sometimes forget he's still so small though. I expect more than I should. I let him watch one episode of Chuggington on the tablet and then when he didn't come find me and let it go on and kept watching j got annoyed because I'd trusted him. But he's three, how much can you trust a three year old to stop doing something really fun because they were told to?!

Another 48 hours with no poo. He won't even sit on the potty for longer than a minute, leaps up straight after a wee. Any ideas how I stop this turning into a full-on withholding nightmare? I feel like I'm handling it really badly.

Bath seemed to do the trick today.....Sorry about panicked posts followed by mundane solutions! When you're in the thick of it these things seem so insurmountable and awful and when they resolve you think, oh yeah, probably wasn't too bad really. Being a mum or just me being neurotic?!?! Happy Sunday evening, anyway, I'm going to have a and some chocolate.....

I definitely expect way too much of S sometimes, schlafen. I guess it's that funny age where they DO understand but don't automatically act on it which is confusing for all concerned! Repel the Mummy guilt! Also, perhaps now you have a tiny one to compare him to he seems bigger than he is?

I'm not sure how socially aware DD is either and I sometimes find myself getting frustrated with her about it. I definitely expect too much off her and think that's because in some ways she seems quite grown up. She looks old too compared to lots of her friends and I don't think that helps. It definitely doesn't help when she's having one of her public melt downs - I can almost feel other people judging us...

We're back from holiday (well, we were back on Friday actually). Had a great time with M and A seeming to have crawling races up and down the caravan each morning . I feel I may have a had a glimpse of the future where they play together. Although we were still in Yorkshire it was great to get away - I've rarely been more then 5 miles from home in the last 12 months! We went in the pool, soft play, on the swings, on a miniture train ride which M found thrilling.
And does anyone remember M's fear of the bath 9 months or so ago? DH couldn't get her out of it tonight. Huge change from last summer. Now if we can only crack the potty training...

I remember - glad it's sorted itself out

Your holiday sounds grand. We won't be getting away this year so I'm very envious - particularly when it's as grim and wet as it is here today. Indoor activities only I think!

2ww........ .......

Ooooo daisy

Lovely hol firefly

We have the pox! We'll Alex does

Oh no, Kitty.....we're still waiting for it here, it's been going round nursery for ages now, S's best friend had it, but still no sign. I don't actually want it, but it's sort of good to get it over with, isn't it? Hope he's not too miserable. Here's a for him and for you.

Exciting times Daisy!

Hope the pox is swift and barely noticeable for you Kitty.

Oooh, exciting times Daisy. Keep us posted!

Thanks, all. Only first time of trying, highly unlikely, but it's nice to spill on an anonymous forum!!

You never know - DD2 was a first time lucky baby!

Same here with A

So was S!

So was (currently gestating) DC2!

Gosh, look at us, what a fertile bunch!
(I will NOT symptom spot, I will NOT symptom spot.....)

DD2 was a first attempt too! I'm amazed its happened to so many of us.

M was a one shot wonder and A first detected post M ovulation. Gosh aren't we a fertile bunch! Fingers tightly crossed

Now I don't want to sound like I'm bragging but, um, can anyone else's child read? Because I think M can and it's freaking me out slightly because I haven't taught him and (pre)school only teach him letters in French. What do I do?! Do I encourage this or leave him be?

F was a first go-er. No second to test the trend on though!

F is very good at picking up the thread of a story and will finish the sentences. From memory though.

He's started playing Endless Reader on iPad though, and is starting to recognise words after only a couple of days.

Not reading though.

My nephew can spell, add and subtract and write his name (apparently) and is also 3. (But he can't hold a pen, and F can, so there! )