People talk about sleepless nights, the barfs, they warn you about the boob rejection, sleeping disorder but NO ONE talks about the poop. You only realize its significance after seeing a tar like poop that comes out of your baby. You freak out, call your doctor, and search online. Double check with your ma, your grandma, motherinlaw, chacchi, phoopi, khala, maama etc etc and then you post a query on one of many post pregnancy facebook forums you follow.
It takes you a while and after many sessions of poop talk with your online soul mamas you take pride in knowing all there is to know about your babys poop. And now that you’re an expert the next step is to find out when to introduce the poo seat. 6 months is too early, 1 year is too late, 2 years is perfect or should you wait for her to be 3. Some do it as soon as they can sit and some wait till the child can actually speak. I don’t think there is any one correct method; it varies however in bare bottom cultures like ours most people tend to potty train their kids at an early age. Talk to the ammajis in your family and you’ll hear them bragging about how their little ones were potty-trained well before their 1st birthday. An achievement that is brag worthy!
So what was it, how did mothers back in the day made it happen so fast? And why do we take our sweet time training our kids nowadays. It could be…. our reliance on the super absorbent diapers, too many online studies supporting the late training method, our busy schedule or that we as parents are just not ready? Whatever the reason we can’t deny the fact that the method used back in the day did lead to kids being trained way earlier and who better to tell us how to go about it then the proud mothers of the past. Here are few guidelines by them.
Start taking the child to the bathroom as soon as he/she can sit.
Make shoo shoo or si si sound while holding him/her over the toilet seat. Do this everyday, several times a day. ( I think my ma did this too because even now if i hear those sounds I feel like peeing)
Say no to pampers and look for cues. There will be accidents so be ready.
Take them to the bathroom every 30 mins. Let them stay there for a bit. Don’t forget the shoo shoo or sssss sound.
When on the toilet seat, splash a bit of water and wait till they pee.
Morning trip to the loo is important and right after their meals as well.
Happy Shoo Shoo and Ss ss ss (lol)
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