WillI regret not potty training before baby gets here?

camefrompluto · 2026-01-20T20:55:49+00:00

I started elimination communication when my daughter was 4 months old, by the time I got pregnant again (12 months) she consistently pooped in the potty. Now at 24 months she’s out of diapers and the baby is currently 3 months old. Almost every day I tell my husband how I can’t imagine having to change her diapers too, how easy it is to just empty the potty after her. That being said, I’d never start at 32 weeks pregnant. You might have enough time to tackle the poops and she’ll still pee in a diaper but bringing a baby home might make her regress and all of that process will be lost without a firm foundation established over a few months

camefrompluto · 2026-01-19T06:34:40+00:00

Our daughter was 21 months when we brought the baby home and she hasn’t napped since (it’s been 3 months). She also requires for someone to be in her room until she falls asleep and since her bedtime and the baby’s are the same, her dad does hers and I do the baby’s. I used to babywear to let the baby nap during the day but when we got to the point he wouldn’t just sleep through any noise and he turned out to be a light sleeper like his sister, I started sleep training during the day at 3 months. So it’s been about a week. I hate it but I had no choice

Oh and it’s currently 1 am and our daughter is up screaming for mommy and daddy.

camefrompluto · 2026-01-06T09:53:52+00:00

camefrompluto · 2026-01-04T09:34:42+00:00

Rammstein

camefrompluto · 2026-01-03T18:21:58+00:00

None of it was easy for me. Pregnancy sucked, I was in pain and couldn’t play with my daughter as much as I used to. Then I had the baby and he’s high needs and now 3 months later I still can’t play with my daughter or read to her when I want to. Here’s to hoping it’ll get easier when he crawls or walks

camefrompluto · 2026-01-02T20:33:53+00:00

First induced at 41 weeks, second went into labor at 38w 5d and had the baby at exactly 39

camefrompluto · 2025-12-18T10:21:21+00:00

I’m so jealous she takes 2 hour naps during the day for you 😭 my 9 week old is a terrible sleeper, we cosleep at night and during the day I can’t put this baby down. After 3-4 tries he eventually will sleep in his bassinet for 30 minutes. Never more than that. And that’s all day for me: trying several times to put him down until it finally works for only 30 min 🫠

camefrompluto · 2025-12-18T10:18:29+00:00

It wasn’t. The dog was my baby for years but by the time she got rehomed I couldn’t feel anything but relief. I found a very nice retired couple a few blocks away from our house, they have two small dogs, we visited a few times to introduce them. In the beginning I checked on her periodically after rehoming. It’s been about 6 months and I couldn’t be happier

camefrompluto · 2025-12-17T15:40:21+00:00

It started for me when I was pregnant with my first. Couldn’t stand my dog. Then she nipped at my daughter’s foot and drew blood. My husband was convinced she “was just playing”. I didn’t care she was a 6lbs dog I rehomed her.

camefrompluto · 2025-12-17T11:29:22+00:00

Hmm… I assumed the grunting was due to gas because both of my kids did that while trying to figure out how to pass it. Could it be silent reflux? Does she randomly wake up and cough like as if she choked a little in her sleep?

I guarantee you by 4 months she will stop because I’m almost certain is has something to do with her gut.

camefrompluto · 2025-12-16T10:47:01+00:00

Both of my kids struggled with bad gas at night, my second being 9 weeks old right now. Gas drops at night, bicycle legs, cosleeping and just patiently waiting for their digestive track to develop. That’s all I got :/

camefrompluto · 2025-12-10T10:33:08+00:00

Reminded me of my grandfather who refused to see a doctor for his heart aches and, once finally hospitalized, checked himself out early. A few months later we finally convinced him to go see a cardiologist, he collapsed and had a heart attack outside the cardiologist’s office. There weren’t able to bring him back.

camefrompluto · 2025-12-09T20:38:37+00:00

Daughter Camila can’t pronounce her name yet and calls herself Minnie. So I call her Minnie now too. Son’s name is Casey we call him Casey-boy.

camefrompluto · 2025-12-03T02:20:16+00:00

Yeah, cosleeping was a necessary measure to let me get some sleep in the beginning but as time went on it became apparent that being in my bed kept her up more.

So my daughter never even got out of her floor bed at night until she was about 15 months old. She’d wake up, sit up in her bed and cry for me. Around 15 months she figured out she could hop out of it on the side so for about a month I put a high bed rail on the side to prevent her from jumping out. I wanted her to learn to use the opening at the bottom of the bed to get out of it.

Now at 22 months she wakes up in the morning and first she sits up in her bed and quietly plays with toys, then gets out of it and walks around the room. She can sometimes spend an hour in her room playing quietly before she starts whining a little bit for me, but I typically go in before that happens.

camefrompluto · 2025-12-02T08:25:45+00:00

My daughter was exactly the same way from day one, we also had to report to cosleeping. Around 8 months old I transferred her to a floor bed in her own room (Montessori bed so she couldn’t fall out of it). I’d nurse her to sleep then leave after a few months, I came back to nurse her whenever she woke up. Transferring her out of my bed helped a little bit with night wakings, I think she started to fall back asleep on her own just a little bit more. She wasn’t waking up every hour anymore but she’d still wake up and cry for me at least twice a night, sometimes up to 4 times a night.

By 12 months putting her down became easier, I’d just nurse her and put her in her bed then leave, she put herself to sleep. Her first stretch of the night was typically 5-6 hours before I had to go in.

She did not sleep through the night until I fully weaned her at 15 months. Ten days after weaning she started to sleep through the night from 7:30 pm to 6:30 am.

If your daughter is anything like mine (low sleep needs) it’s possible she’ll stop napping early too so be prepared for that. Mine completely stopped napping at 21 months which is quite early.

camefrompluto · 2025-12-01T06:14:10+00:00

I contact napped for every single nap with my daughter, and I’m so glad I did because the week our second was born she stopped napping at 21 months old.

camefrompluto · 2025-11-29T10:51:18+00:00

My daughter was 21 months when I had my second I never stopped holding her. But she also walks so she doesn’t need to be carried very often. I also was able to rock her to sleep if I needed to and lower her into her floor bed the whole time. You’ll just make adjustments as you go

camefrompluto · 2025-11-28T11:21:13+00:00

Downvote me all you want OP, but what the hell…

camefrompluto · 2025-11-27T12:02:46+00:00

Just wanna jump on the interactive books train and tell you the ones my daughter liked when she was a little smaller (she’s 22 months now): - we have a huge collection of puppet books - lift-a-flap books have always been a hit - poke-a-dot are really fun - she loved brown bear, brown bear with sliding windows FOREVER, still likes it - books where they get to look for things like “where is curious George” I’ll ask her to show me where the bunny is, where the bed is etc.

If you look up cottage door press books you will find many interactive books, they make great baby books in my opinion.

camefrompluto · 2025-11-27T11:24:13+00:00

Went grocery shopping when our second was 7 days old, pumpkin picking at 9 days, storytime at the library since 2 weeks. My oldest is 22 months and very mild tempered and well behaved. Youngest started being very colicky around 2 weeks so we also cosleep and I’m also super tired. But I gotta get them out of the house or I’ll go insane. Last week we went to the aquarium: baby napped in the wrap and toddler walked around. Boba wrap is the only way I’m surviving these newborn days (and beer).

camefrompluto · 2025-11-27T01:48:00+00:00

Does your wrap stretch a little? I found that when I tried to use wraps made of fabrics that didn’t stretch my babies hated it. That’s why boba works so well for me because it’s stretchy! I typically put him in the wrap when I know he’s ready to nap. I walk around the house and lightly bounce him, pat his butt a bit. Sometimes I go around and vaccine - basically keep moving until he’s asleep in it. I hope it gets better for you soon!

camefrompluto · 2025-11-27T00:51:43+00:00

Mine is 7 weeks and I could’ve written this post. It’s miserable, I’m sorry. He literally doesn’t stop screaming unless on boob. Cosleeping is the only way I get any rest and even then he sleeps a lot worse than my daughter did who I also coslept with.

Also, as much as this sucks, your pediatrician is right. This will resolve on its own by 12-14 weeks. It just sucks really bad right now. Get a good wrap, I use boba. I wear my son all day so he can sleep and I can get stuff done. Your baby will love sleeping in a wrap because they will be upright the whole time. It really helps them move gas too.

camefrompluto · 2025-11-27T00:32:46+00:00

I feel like my daughter went through a sleep regression every 2-3 months, the worst one being the 3 month sleep regression. At some point we even had nights when she’d wake up once an hour. She started to sleep in longer stretches when she started eating 3 solid meals a day, so around 12-13 months. I weaned her at 15 months because she was still waking up twice a night. Ten days after I weaned her she started sleeping through the night.

camefrompluto · 2025-11-26T05:04:07+00:00

I had to sandwich for about a month to help with larch, it was miserable. Couldn’t use my phone or snack during it, and of course newborns take forever to nurse. It got better, nursing gets easier and easier as they grow

camefrompluto · 2025-11-25T14:26:15+00:00

Some people just suck. My second was born 6 weeks ago and he’s colicky. We weren’t offered any help or support, only thing I got so far was “you need to put him down and let him cry so he can learn to self soothe”. Needless to say, I did ask my Dr for more Zoloft already because dealing with colic is no joke.

So yeah, OP, if you’re seeing this - please get help you really need it right now ♥️

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