Unfortunately my fears and apprehension have materialized. It’s crazy. Other triplet moms that I have spoken to have waited to their children are older to start this process - I guess I understand why now. It can be like a 3 ring circus. One daughter is on the potty. Another has gotten a hold of the tooth paste and is trying to squirt it into their sister’s mouth. While my other daughter (who is waiting her turn) is pulling out panty liners and sticking them to her sister’s leg who is sitting on the toliet. And no I’m not just sitting back watching all of this, I’m going from one to the next trying to stop whatever behavior is going on at that moment. Time to re-group and do something different.
It’s become pretty apparhent that we need to have three potty seats in the bathroom. So, that we can get right down to business and focus on going potty not all the interesting things in the bathroom.
Sometimes the girls want “privacy”. This works out fine when no one else is waiting in the wings. But, when everyone else is waiting for their turn, too many tantrums arrupt.
I was avoiding using additional potty chairs because of the challenges that they impose (we had one in the bathroom for Ben for quite awhile - the girls would remove the potty cup in the chair and dump (try to at least) it in the toliet even when there was nothing in it. Then they would scoop up toliet water with it. Unfortunately, I don’t think we have a choice - the potty chairs have to come back.
The girls have been using the potty every day (about 3-4 times a day). Their diapers are still wet. I’m just not quite ready to go hard core potty training yet. I’m thinking that maybe after Ben’s summer camp is over. We can stay home for a week or two and see if we can make any true progress with some serious concentrated effort. I must say though - we were at a play date at someone else’s house last week. The girls asked to go on the potty and did!
I belive we are making progress - obviously we have a way to go - but we’re on the right track.