u/dogmotherhood

my 27 month old is on day 5 of Oh Crap and he’s doing GREAT. I can tell that he is having some constipation today because he didn’t poop at all and he’s been tooting a lot. We were driving in the car when he announced he needed to use the potty so we pulled over and sat on the travel potty, he let out a big ol fart and then was pushing a bit more but no solids came. That happened a few more times through the evening, farts and straining but no solids.

Anyway, the last 2 or 3 nights he has discovered that “i have to go potty” is a trump card to get out of bed after bed time. He does have a diaper on for overnights but he’s kept the overnight diaper dry for the last couple nights as well. He’ll get on the potty and then just be playing around so I pick him up and put him back to bed to great protest. Tonight he was crying and begging to go to the potty.

So I am struggling with where to draw the line between encouraging him to listen to his body and holding bedtime boundaries. What makes it harder is that I know his belly seems to be bugging him tonight so I feel like I should let him have free potty access but then again he is taking advantage because he was doing this the last couple nights when I know he had good pees and poos shortly before bed time. Despite having the overnight diaper on, he has not been using it because he’s very enthusiastically taking to the potty.

My son, 27 months, is on day 4.5 of potty training. I knew he was ready because he was telling before he peed or pooped in his diaper so I just decided to throw our remaining diapers out and start potty training in earnest. He does great naked but once I tried to put him in shorts commando he is continually having accidents at least a few times a day. I prompt him every 30 minutes but like just now I told him to go sit on the potty, he said he didn’t have to, and then peed where he was sitting a few minutes later. Not a few drops, a full bladder empty. Last night he pooped in his pants immediately after I told him to sit on the potty.

Now, it’s only happening maybe once or twice a day and the rest of the time he self initiates and gets to the potty. He has even been keeping his pull ups dry for overnight and nap, and waking me up in the morning to get it off so he can pee in the potty. So I know he gets the concept, is enthusiastic about the potty, and he is doing very well. I don’t have any type of reward system except after each successful pee or poo in the potty he gets to put a sticker on a chart, but I don’t have any prizes or anything because he seems motivated enough on his own.

However, I am struggling with feeling really sad/ disappointed/ defeated after each accident. I don’t convey that to him, I just say uh oh, next time we need to make sure the pee makes it into the potty and have him help me clean up. But it’s just something I’m struggling with internally. I usually feel better after the next success but sometimes it’s an hour or two before our next good potty trip. It makes me feel like I can’t leave my house, and I really struggle with my mental health when I’m stuck inside at home all day. How do I deal with these feelings?

I bought a sleep by wayfair cheap mattress. I was aware of the presence of fiberglass but I know most brands at least encapsulate it so I was prepared to just never remove the cover and have another fully encapsulated cover over it. However, upon receiving the mattress I was looking at the tag and it says it is actually a Zinus mattress. I’m aware of a lawsuit involving them and fiberglass escaping the sock layer without even ever opening the cover. I ctrl+f the listing on the site and NOWHERE does it say that this mattress is manufactured by Zinus. I would not have bought it had I known it was that brand. I just bought it because it had 2 day delivery and my son started climbing out of his crib (head/neck injury risk that needed to be remediated asap) so I needed something very quickly, but also inexpensive. I’ve been up reading and getting myself all worked up over this. The mattress is already opened and expanded, and wayfair wants $99 return shipping (almost the price of the effing mattress itself).

How big of a deal is this, should I just take the loss on the return shipping? Am I over reacting? I am so concerned by the thought of my son getting fiberglass on him. I know that many many many mattresses do have fiberglass and don’t ever have issues but my son will probably not be gentle on a bed and I couldn’t live with myself if I knowingly let him sleep on it and then we started having issues.

If it’s not obvious, I have extreme anxiety so I guess I am just looking for opinions on what I should do or a reality check. Thanks

it’s called spectracide one shot and the ingredients are as follows:

Diquat Dibromide: 0.090% Imazapyr, Isopropylamine salt: 0.148% Dicamba, Dimethylamine salt: 0.030%

He was trying to kill a ton of weeds that were growing under the tree. I had asked him to weed it so I could mulch and he decided to do this instead of hand weeding 😭 As soon as I realized what he was doing I ran out there and started trying to rinse the area with water but then afterward I read online that that can actually make it worse and push it further down into the soil?? I am so concerned about the tree I could just cry. He used maybe half of a ready to use 32-oz bottle. He did not read the ingredients, thinking he was getting one that just killed leaves it came into contact with. I don’t know how old the tree is, it’s probably at least 10-15 years old