I'm 7+ months pregnant, my husband has been doing all his business trips before the baby arrives (so he's been away a lot), and my very active 18 month old is running me to exhaustion (she's also decided to drop naps - waking up early, and going to bed late).
She went through an "almost miss" phase a month or so ago. So long as she was naked from the waist down, she would take herself to the potty, and pee on cue if I offered. She was even signaling to me before she went, and telling me about misses. I think we had 4 or 5 misses in 2 or 3 weeks.
She's now refusing to wear a backup, and is also refusing the potty (the majority of the time). This means major misses, and the pee misses seem to be deliberate (she'll squat over something, and pee). She seems to have lost all awareness for poop (so the poop misses just sort of happen).
She usually wears gerber underwear around the house, or a cloth diaper if I can't watch her. But lately I've had to put her back into disposables and just let her be (which has made any EC success we've had, much, MUCH worse). Even last night we had a poop miss right before bed (I'd guess about 15 minutes after putting the diaper on, and 30 minutes before falling asleep), and woke up with a gross old dry crusty poop. She's never been one to care if she's wet, but this is a new level for her.
I'm TIRED... Should I stop EC for a while? I'm still offering the potty during the times when she'll accept to sit (and we're still having catches), but because I'm pregnant and home alone, I'm finding the whole process completely exhausting. I've tried leaving a cloth on her to see if she'll tell me when she's wet and she wet it so badly that she leaked out the waterproof cover (then complained when I tried to put a dry one on).
It's the refusal to wear anything, and the constant misses that's stressing me out (and because she's a climber, and seems to want to sit on things to pee, many of the misses are not on the floor).
Suggestions?
She went through an "almost miss" phase a month or so ago. So long as she was naked from the waist down, she would take herself to the potty, and pee on cue if I offered. She was even signaling to me before she went, and telling me about misses. I think we had 4 or 5 misses in 2 or 3 weeks.
She's now refusing to wear a backup, and is also refusing the potty (the majority of the time). This means major misses, and the pee misses seem to be deliberate (she'll squat over something, and pee). She seems to have lost all awareness for poop (so the poop misses just sort of happen).
She usually wears gerber underwear around the house, or a cloth diaper if I can't watch her. But lately I've had to put her back into disposables and just let her be (which has made any EC success we've had, much, MUCH worse). Even last night we had a poop miss right before bed (I'd guess about 15 minutes after putting the diaper on, and 30 minutes before falling asleep), and woke up with a gross old dry crusty poop. She's never been one to care if she's wet, but this is a new level for her.
I'm TIRED... Should I stop EC for a while? I'm still offering the potty during the times when she'll accept to sit (and we're still having catches), but because I'm pregnant and home alone, I'm finding the whole process completely exhausting. I've tried leaving a cloth on her to see if she'll tell me when she's wet and she wet it so badly that she leaked out the waterproof cover (then complained when I tried to put a dry one on).
It's the refusal to wear anything, and the constant misses that's stressing me out (and because she's a climber, and seems to want to sit on things to pee, many of the misses are not on the floor).
Suggestions?
