While in South America, we put Kaia back in overnight pull-ups. It didn’t make sense for us to wake her up twice each night to pee while we were technically supposed to be on vacation/holiday. But once we got back, we started waking her up to pee again. I usually wake her up the first time, which has been between 11:15 to midnight. Then, Chris will wake up at around 2:30-2:45 to bring her to pee. According to the Oh Crap! potty training method, we’re supposed to start with this to get her in the habit and physical / mental mode of waking up to pee. Then, ideally, this is supposed to train her to wake up to pee on her own. Well, we started this method about two weeks before South America, and she hasn’t woken up on her own to pee even once. Maybe my expectations are too high, but this seems to be going rather slowly.

Earlier this week when I’d wake her to pee at around 11:15-11:30, it did not go over so well. I knew she wouldn’t like getting woken up from a deep sleep (who would?!), but she would out right refuse and lie on the bathroom floor and scream until Chris came to coax her. I decided that maybe I was waking her up to early, so I decided to change my alarm to midnight to give her more time to sleep. This worked: the next few nights, she easily woke up when I nudged her to pee, peed in the potty, and let me tuck her back into bed. But now, it’s backfired: she will pee now, but then refuse when I try to wipe her and pull her pants back up. It’s almost as though she wants to just sit and sleep on the potty with her pants down!

I wonder if I will end up sharing these potty training stories with her later down the line… and what her reaction will be. She may end up having the reaction that her dad has to stories of his baby/toddlerhood: “No, I ate solid food right out of the womb/I walked right from birth.”