Nature has taken its revenge on me for my terrible methods of potty training Rowan. In the past couple of days my fetus has taken up permanent residence on top of my bladder. I envision this wrinkled-up, impish looking, vortex-covered fetus lounging on my bladder with sun glasses on and a cold drink in hand - laughing at me! Every time I sneeze, laugh, stand up too fast, or generally take a deep breath, I pee myself. I know this is a pretty common side-effect of late pregnancy, but I’ve never really had the problem before this week. Probably because I am the queen of the kegal exercise. I pride myself when weeks have gone by without me lifting one weight or completing one crunch or leg lift, that at least I’ve done my kegals! I don’t think they burn any calories but they don’t make you sweaty either. At least where anyone would notice. Anyway, just since the day I blogged about Rowan peeing behind my chair, I’ve been basically peeing all over myself. I can’t get the overactive bladder song out of my head: Gotta go, gotta, go, gotta go right now! It figures, my allergies are acting up at the same time. I could do without the sneezing!
At the same time I am regressing back to toddler-hood, Rowan is getting the potty thing down. She’s had two days in panties without any accidents. This is due to pure competitiveness and jealousy on her part. The other night we spent time with a friend of mine who is in town from Texas with her two year old twins. One of them, Erin, is fully potty trained and sporting some pretty cute panties! She also likes to visit the potty around every ten minutes. This just did the trick for Rowan. Success! Family, friends, neighbors, even the mailman have been making a big deal about how well she’s doing and she is so tickled pink! Of course, there will be setbacks. After a particularly fruitful trip to the potty this evening, I was praising Rowan for an entire day without an accident when she told me, “except once Mommy, I peed on your pillow, but don’t worry - I turned it over.” Better Rowan than me, I guess!