It’s Potty Time!

As you should all know by now, children with Ds develop slower than their typical peers. 

This includes... potty training.

Looking back, training with Nora wasn’t too bad - we just went full in with the undies and dealt with the accidents. Nora was cool with learning, didn’t fight it. 

I’ve been nervous with Hannah - I knew we would delay starting. But she’s now two. She’s close to walking... it’s worth trying out - right? What’s also hard is the communication. Nora was easily talking to us by 16 months so that helped tremendously. Hannah... we’re going to have to sign - which has been good, I hope we can communicate the potty training!

I’ve heard of some children being trained as late as five or six years old - yikes. I really hope Hannah can master before that. From what I’ve read, the average is three to five years. I hope we can be on the lower end of that...

We brought up the little potty and I sat her on it this past weekend while Nora was on the big potty. Hannah freaked out a bit as if to say “Mom what are you doing?? Get me off of here!!” So I took her off. 

Fast forward to today when I saw a missed call from Alison [panic!] - but then saw a text from her: Hannah pee-peed on the potty! WHAT?! I guess Alison just gave it a shot - Hannah freaked out again. Alison calmed her down and at that point, Hannah peed! Zowie!

We plan to keep it up, even if today was a fluke, at least she now has the first step to learn!