You're probably all aware now of our struggles with Cosette and potty-training. We decided to put her back in diapers for a while. We were all getting really upset and I wanted to let us cool off because we just love her and it started to be apparent that she wasn't feeling that love (because we were struggling to show her that love). Anyway, we put her back in diapers and we're all a lot happier. And, it turns out she has a medical condition that is causing all the poop problems. It's called encopresis. Won't go into the details, but it causes pooping problems, bad ones. So, we're working with her on helping her to NOT hold in her poop. I'm beginning to think that that's a big part of the issue. An idea came to me today that I think we're going to try. While she's still in diapers I'm going to reward her every time she poops in her diaper with 10 minutes or so on the computer. This book I bought suggests that we talk about her poop as 'sneaky poop' and that we're going to fight her sneaky poop together. I'm hoping that will help ease the battle of wills, that maybe we can work together to solve this problem instead of against each other. We'll see.
So, yes, my 4 year old is in diapers. And if you want to judge me go ahead. I know that people are judging me (I've been told what people have said) and it used to bother me. But I love Cosette more than I care about what people think so we're doing what works for us.
She's a darling girl and we just adore her!
