Potty training at 18 months…I must be mad! DAY 1

Although it might seem early (especially to my dear mum who thinks Harry is way too young to start using a potty) every child is different and it is so obvious when Harry is doing a stinky – contorted face, bright red cheeks, bulging eyes and not to mention the sound effects! It seems a shame not to start putting him on a potty. I must admit I started trying him on the potty when he was 12 months old. He seemed to take to it and really liked putting his foot in it – had to nip that one in the bud rather quickly. So anyway, considering we are now trying for a second baby, it seems like as good a time as any to go cold turkey on nappies during the day. Harry is sitting in front of me at the moment with his chubby little bum on show and seems to be enjoying the freedom down below. We have already had one accident – he wee’d in his shape sorter   “No problem” I said, “but you must do wee,wee’s in your potty next time”. This coupled with racing to the potty every 5 minutes so he can sit on it just in case is what I shall be doing for the next few days. With any luck we will get a wee in the actual potty and then he can get a sticker on his chart. That should set some cogs in motion.

I want to be pregnant already.

Okay, so I know I’m probably being a bit impatient, seeing as we have only been ttc for 2 weeks now. I swear I have had all of the pregnancy symptoms though…just hope its not all in my mind. I’ve been weeing almost once an hour, I had stomach cramps low down on one side and now they are all over my lower tummy but not so often and very mild. I felt sick a couple of times but not consistantly every day and I haven’t been able to do as much as usual on the treadmill. also, I’ve been feeling lightheaded, very bloated on lower tummy so much so that my “big” jeans don’t feel comfortably anymore, even had implantation bleeding on the 8th day. Starting to notice certain smells are a lot more pungent than usual.

I have done 3 home tests but all negative. I looked it up on the internet and it does say that it would be too early to tell at the moment so perhaps that was a bit optimistic!

I will be really annoyed with myself if this is all in my mind. I’d like to think I was sensible enough to know my own body.

I shall keep you updated – fingers crossed!

So the begining… urm…begins!

Sat here with my last bottle of wine for at least the next 2 years, I am thinking is this such a good idea? I mean I still have New Years eve to get through..surely that is a good enough excuse, if any, to get plastered. The mother in me says “No can do Jen, it won’t be good for your baby to be. Continue to drink if you want to rot in hell and feel guilty for the rest of your pregnancy. If you would prefer to do it right this time then pack it in!”.

So I have my Sanatogen pre-natal’s at the ready and take my first lot tomorrow morning. We had originally agreed to ttc on the 1st  January but unfortunately, it being my last chance to gorge this crimbo, I have put on a whole stone in the space of a month. To be fair, I have been trying to consume all of the crap food in the house so that it is gone and I won’t be tempted. Now I’m going to have to get this stone off before we ttc, I couldn’t bare it if I got preggers before I was back to my normal 9 stone. With Harry we only got to try twice and that was it. I had only just stoped taking my pill too. I put on a wopping 3 stone and it took me a whole year to shed so I’d like to give myself a fighting chance this time round. I plan on interval running on our treadmill every day for at least 40 minutes while Harry has his nap. Healthy eating too…a maximum of 1,200 calories should do it don’t you think? I’m not really sure what is a healthy amount? I’m guessing if I start running before we ttc then I should be able to keep it up throughout the pregnancy. Hmmm, not really sure if it would be safe to do that though, you know, in the first 3 months….I would really love to hear what you think or what you did to prepare your body for pregnancy.