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I have two toddler daughters , a two year old and a three year old. We recently started potty training both of them and to our amazement they just took to it for pee but poop has been a different story. We also have three older boys and didn’t have these issues – they were able to potty train for both poop and pee very easily at the same time.
Potty training, or, as I like to call it, ‘potty guiding’, is a toddler rite of passage no family can ignore, side-step or skip. In the thick of it, you wonder if you will ever get through it sanely and ask often if your child will ever “get there”…finally become potty trained. Once there, though, you smile knowing it’s over and you all can move on!
My 4 ½ year old boy is still in pull-ups because he will not poop on the potty.Any ideas?
If there are two pearls of wisdom I can impart to you about toddlers it is this: they will have many boo-boos and there will be times you will be convinced your toddler is “always sick” and you should change your address to that of your pediatrician’s office.
Safety proofing. One of those necessary evils of parenting we love and hate all at once. We love the fact that we are protecting out infants and very young children, yet if only it were easier to accomplish at times…and if our tots had a bit less Houdini in them.
One of the most difficult issues for new parents, and grand-parents, is deciding if a very young infant (under 2 months of age) is sick.
Childhood obesity is a challenging problem. As difficult as it is for a parent to acknowledge that their child is overweight, it is even more daunting for that parent to figure out how to even being to talk to the child about loosing weight.
Our 4.5 month old baby has recently started jerking his head from side to side (as if exercising the “no” movement, involuntarily). This phenomenon occurs mostly when he seems tired, but is not limited to this situation. I am quite worried, since the phenomenon appears both “wild” and involuntary.
I have an active, happy and playful 15 month old son. His solid and liquid intake is good. He is not experiencing cold, fever or any allergy symptoms but he has eczema and is on hydrocortisone weekly for the past month. For the past weeks, he throws up at the most 5 times a week. It is all that he ate a moment ago covered with clear mucus.
All families worry about whether their babies are developing “normally”. Concern is often more heightened when a baby’s head is on the small size. Here are two questions I received recently on this topic. As you’ll see, appearances can be deceiving and more times than not there is no reason for alarm:
