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Back to 'Normal'

That is, with H waking twice last night......... once at 1.30am and again at 5.30am. Screaming. We have introduced a new routine though...... G goes in to him, gives him a hug, offers him a drink of water, then leaves & closes the door behind him. Heartbreaking. Last night H was all 'packed' ready to come to our room... when G got there he had his two favourite teddys in arm and said 'Mummys bed' and was extremely upset when he was forbidden, but we really have to break this habit and break it now. After leaving him he screamed as loudly as you can imagine a small person screaming but then quickly settled down and went back to sleep... so I'm thinking this might just break him of this horrendous routine of waking, when it's not fun anymore. We also need to stop giving him milk when he does wake - he's 2.5, he doesn't need it. We only offer it because it suits us to have him snuggle down and drink nice warm milk and go back to sleep..... but he (and we) need to learn to do without that. It'll happen. One day.

And today I have decided that it is time to start potty training him . I don't want to. I don't think he's particularly ready for it (although he does inform me at the top of his voice 'IVE POOED', then point to his bum and say "THERE!' every time he goes), but really I have to do it now because everyone says don't do it when a new baby comes along and I don't want to leave it that late anyway. Also I'm hoping to enroll him in Montessori in September which means he'll need to be potty trained so this is the time to do it. Ugh. Nightmare. I am basically going to have to stay in for a week or two to get this done. And spend my life cleaning up poo and wee (another benefit of doing it now is that I'm not *too* big and ungainly to be crawling around on my hands and knees wiping up mess). Joy. Wish me luck.