Is your child ready for Potty?

I've extracted this simple survey to determine if your child is ready for potty from the Motherhood magazine. The number of 'yes' ascertain the readiness of your child.
Hope it is useful for the parents out there.

1. Does your child stay dry for at least 2 hours, or is usually dry after naptime?

2. Is your child walking well, and is able to walk to the bathroom?

3. Can your child undress himself?

4. Does your toddler show that he needs to urinate or have a bowel moverment, either through his facila expressions, posture, by escaping to a private place, or using words/grunting?

5. Are your child's bowel movements regular and predictable?

6. Is your child bothered or uncomfortable if he sits around in a wet or dirty diaper?

7. Can your child understand simple concepts like clean/dirty and wet/clean?

8. Is your child familiar with toileting words (e.g. pee, poop, urinate, wipe), as well as parts of the body associated with potty use?

9. Can your child follow simple instructions?

10. Is your child able to sit down quietly for 4 to 5 minues at a time?

11. Does your child follow you or your spouse into the bathroom?

12. Does your child try to imitate other children or family members using the toilet?

13. Does your child show interest in wearing big-kid underwear, and is asking not to use diapers?

14. Is your child generally cooperative and happy to please his parents?

15. Is your child experiencing any major event (e.g. m0oved into a new home) or change of routine (e.g. just started day care)?

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Results
11-15 'Yes' : Your child seems ready! Go buy a potty if you haven't done so. Decide on which toilet training approach you prefer. Do read up on problems you may encounter. Remember to give your child plenty of encouragement and praise!

6-10 'Yes' : Your child is getting there soon. Keep his curiosity going. Talk about the process, read children's books or watch DVDs on toileting together, and expose him to potty vocabulary. Keep pressure off though.

1-5 'Yes' : Your child probably needs a little more time. Keep looing out for signs of readiness and ignore comparison with other kids. Take cue from yoru child and stay cool.

Another Milestone in Potty Training

Something to celebrate!

My baby is able to poo and pee when we put her over the potty without us having to make all the 'poo poo' and 'wee wee' sound effect. She seems to know when we put her over the potty, it is time to do business... whether big or small!

She is only 3 months plus old... reaching 4 month in 2 days' time. :) :)

Our perseverance in carrying her over the potty is paying off...

Items for Your Baby Bag

Items for Your Baby Bag

Would like to share the useful items I always keep in my Baby Bag.

Diapers
More is always better than less. I usually have at least 2 in my baby bag should I be out for about 3-4 hours.

Blankets or Swaddle Cloth
I find this useful as I always forget to bring socks or mittens for my baby. So while I shop in the malls, I can always cover her little feet and hands. I also use it to drape over the stroller while my baby is trying to sleep so as to limit disturbances.

Baby-Wipes
Also a must-have. I find Pigeon very useful.

Clothes
Also good to have an extra set of clothes as baby's clothes get soiled for many reasons.

Plastic bags
Another good item to have in the baby bag especially when you can find baby changing room with bins. You can change baby in the stroller and put soiled diaper in plastic bag for disposal. Or you can use it to store baby's soiled clothes.

Milk/Food
Always come in handy when baby gets hungry.

Toys
Something you can use to keep your baby occupied while you do your shopping.

Baby Show 2008 Part 2

Promised to post some photos of Niffy's groggy face...

This is the doctor and nurse trying very hard to get Niffy (my daughter's pet name) to smile...

Niffy was feeling groggy while waiting for her turn to parade...

Right Brain Teaching

I found some materials here on right brain teaching. Seems interesting and informative.
You can check out this site.
http://www.brillbaby.com/teach-baby/right-brain-genius.php

If you have useful information to share about right brain teaching, pls drop some comments.

Baby Show 2008

Baby Show 2008

On Sunday, we took Genieve to the Baby Show 2008 at Teck Ghee CC. We almost forgot abt the show as I was busy attending some seminar over the weekend. And my hubby was also not feeling too well.

Anyway, we didn't think too much of it as we thought it would be fun for the family. It turned out to be quite badly organised. All the parents there were quite lost. In fact, the organiser didn't seem to expect the parents would be bring prams and strollers such that the whole entrance was blocked.

It didn't really get off to a good start especially when Genieve didn't even want to poo that morning when we put her over the potty. So she was properly feeling quite constipated and uncomfortable. Indeed she was quite 'bua song' (means unhappy) and refused to smile at anyone who tried to play with her. Usually she would smile back or talk quite loudly.

So despite the best effort from the judges and doctor, Genieve just simply ignore them... this explained why she didn't win any prizes. Haha. Will put up some photos soon as they are still somewhere in my digicam.

Next time, we must prepare her for such shows... we didn't even let her wear anything special!!! other parents really dressed their babies up! We felt so 'ashamed'... haha... well it was still a good experience cuz now we know what to do for the next Baby Show!

How you keep your baby occupied during the day time?

To all parents out there,
pls share how you keep your baby (3-6months) meaningfully occupied during their wake time in the day?
I need some ideas... :)

Another Update on Baby Sleeping Thru the Night

I think we are progressing well in training our baby to sleep through the night. So far, she has been quite consistent in waking up at around 6 - 7 am plus for the past few days.

I'm decreasing her milk intake at 9-10pm so as to drop this late night feed eventually while increasing her intake during the day. Now, she is able to take about 150ml per feed in the day and evening.

Hopefully soon, she will not need the 9-10pm. Think we are quite near success as she wasn't too interested when I tried to feed her last night at 10pm. In fact, she only took abt 90ml last night when usually I would feed her close to 180ml... soon soon... success is just a few more steps away... :) :) :)

Internet Marketing

Internet Marketing Seminar by Fabian Lim

Will be going for a seminar on internet marketing tomorrow. According to some past participants it will be useful for those thinking of starting their own online business. Hope it will be interesting, engaging, and useful.

Look for to it! Any one out there have attended this seminar last year? Feel free to comment about it here.