Third night in a row Remington wet himself. Im so disapointed, he had gone about 3 months totally dry day and night. We had our swerve on, a perfect little routine, no more pullups, no more accidents. He would tell me when he had to go, and I would remind him too. He would make sure I saw him grab his pee pee and he would say "peeh", and that means he has to pee. He would make sure i saw him point to his butt when he had to poo and he would say "pooh", and that means he has to poop.
He was amazing, he would try to wipe himself and do a pretty good job (id finish the job), he would step onto the stool and point to his poo and smile, then he would flush. He would climb off his stool and scoot it over to the sink. Then together we would pull up his undies and jeans. Then he would climb back onto the stool and put his hands under the faucet waiting for me to turn it on cause he isnt allowed to play with the faucet.
Its hard for me to help him understand the difference between something you have to do, and playing. He liked to turn the water on and fill a cup and put it in his mouth and spit it in the sink, and all over the bathroom. I would get mad, tell him the faucet is not for playing, only hand washing. He doesnt really get how sometimes its okay and sometimes its not cause to him washing his hands is still playing cause its fun. So it was just easier to banish him from ever touching the faucet.
Even at night we had a great routine. Im sure most of you with kids will think this is a bit unusual but Remington still sleeps in a crib. "They" say to keep your kid in a crib as long as you can, to only move them to a toddler bed when they are climbigng out of the crib or if you are expecting a new baby. What makes it unusual is most kids start climbing out of their cribs at about 2 or so. Remi has no interest in escaping his crib. He has never even made an attempt. His crib is for sleeping only and when he wakes up he calls "MAMAMAMA" and I come get him. Im sure if I was to ignore him and let him wail in there long enough he would take it upon himself to escape, but ive never done that. The moment he wakes up I get him.
I dont know if the experts accounted for the possibility of a kid never wanting to escape from his crib. They prolly have though and im prolly considered very lucky for this. Im told moving your baby to a toddler bed can be a nightmare. Basically having to reset the entire sleep routine, start over from square one. Teach them how to stay in bed, teach them not to play with their toys when they are supose to be sleeping, teach them to stay in their rooms. I hear lots of parents have trouble with that especially, they start getting late night visits and normally this stage is when parents have a problem with co sleeping. I hear stories about 7 year old still sleeping with their parents and im always told it started when the crib went out.
Remington has a perfect bedtime routine and we all know it real well, and im in no rush at all to put him in a big boy bed. Our bedrooms are up stairs, our ceilings are 8? ft high, way higher than normal ceilings. So upstairs is seriously up stairs. The stair case has a 90 degree turn 3/4ths of the way up, their is a banister to keep people from falling, but everything is really old. The molding are oddly shaped the walls are far apart, baby gates are a pain in the ass to install, and if he can climb out of his crib what is to prevent him from climbing over the gate? He does really well with stairs and I really dont think in a million years he would try to climb over the banister...but that seems to be the attitude of everyone that experiences that sort of unusual tragedy "He had never done it before!".
From the top of the stairs if he was to climb over the banister is it atleast a 20 foot drop straight down onto hardwood floors. I figure the only way I would be able to sleep knowing Remi was "free", is if there was a lock on the outside of his bedroom door, otherwise i'd be terrified of him and those stairs in the middle of the night. However even having a lock on the outside of the door seems dangerous to me, what if there was a fire? What if Phil and I burned to death and my little genius was trying to escape and couldn't cause the damn door was locked? Or what if while in the panic Phil and I suddenly went stupid and couldn't figure out how to unlock the door?
Therefore, considering all of this, im totally fine with Remi staying in his crib until he is 5 years old : P
The thing thats funny to me is that a little boy that is totally potty trained needs to be removed from his baby crib to go potty in the middle of the night. lol. It works well though, we just automatically take him potty at midnight, he doesn't put up a fuss at all and he is dry the rest of the night.
Except for these past 3 nights, we have taken him potty like usual and at about 3 am he has been wet. Nothing really has changed, there is a possibility that he has been drinking more in the evenings, but I dont think its enough of a difference to make him wet the bed. Hopefully they were just 3 random incidences all in a row. Maybe a brief phase... ? ...
It's the fluids. You can psyche him out by still giving him cups to drink from, but with less fluid. The other thing to consider is if he's stressed out about something. That will sometimes trigger a behavior. Last but no least, maybe it's just something he's going through. He's subconsciously "done" with the potty training game.