Sometime around Midnight, 2 AM, 4 AM, I hear a small voice...
"Mama, I gotta go potty."
Sprout's little eyes shine through the darkness next to our bed.
I stumble from under the covers and help him to the bathroom.
Once he's done his business, I tuck him back in.
I try to get back to sleep, but I'm frustrated, thinking,
"Why can't he hold it longer?" "Does he really have to get up every two hours?"
I feel guilty because I know I should be thankful he's doing so good not having any accidents at night.
But man, this is kicking my butt!
Do YOU have any Mama Guilt on your mind today? All you have to do is blog about whatever it is, funny or serious, post a link back to me, then come back here and enter your post link into the MckLinky.
Or feel free to write about your Mama Guilt in the comments.
Either way, I think it's good to share our "Mama Guilt" so we know we are not alone, we all struggle in this wonderful, chaotic, ever challenging thing called motherhood!
19 comments:
Hmmm, I feel for you! I am not sleeping through the night at all either (but I have an infant so I guess that's okay;).
First of all, congratulations on potty training!! Secondly- when do you cut off his liquids for the night? My daughter was soaking through diapers, jammies, and sheets because she was having a regular 8oz cup of milk about an hour before she went to bed. Yikes!
Now we give her a couple sips, and the last real amount of any liquid was consumed hours before she went to bed.
She still has very wet diapers, so I'm not sure how their little kidneys work- LOL- maybe just experiment with the amounts of liquid he gets?
Good luck whatever you end up doing! Hope you get some sleep:)
what a fun meme.. My Mama guilt is making my little one wait for things if I can't get to them right away.
Happy MOnday.
2am? Ugh. I don't know how moms function throughout the day!
I get so cranky when I get woken up in the middle of the night...thankfully now it's not often! Hopefully he will get better at holding it through the night soon for you. I did the liquids cut off time too, but sometimes their little bladders still can't make it.
So fun to share our guilty mom moments...I think I have too many to list! Like the fact that I still let my middle some sleep in a pull up because that is way easier than cleaning up wet sheets every morning:)
I would try the cutting the liquids out earlier and maybe putting a night light in the bathroom so he can go on his own? If he is able to do that yet. I have never potty trained or anything yet but the little girl I nanny for thats what her daughter does. She has a nightlight in the bathroom and she will get up and use the potty and get back in bed. It may take some redirection now bc he prob wants mom up to help but I bet you could get him to do it on his own.
No guilt mom! You are doing great and way to go on getting him potty trained.. his little bladder will grow sooon :)
Oh gosh...Our son wet the bed till he was 11 {{yikes, did I just type that}}, so as much as it really really really sucks to get up through the night, it is hard to wake up every morning to a defeated child who is too old to wear pull ups and strip the entire bed (and try not to act mad) and wash all the bedding.
Every day.
Man that sucked.
I was trying to make you feel like the grass isn't always greener and I guess I kindof just confessed some of my Mamaguilt:)
Oooo yeah, this monring my son told me he wanted me to stop working. When I said Mommy has to work so we can have our house and yummy food he looked at me and told me we could just live with Grandma and Grandpa!
When our littles are little they demand so much time and energy. It almost seems like we don't have any control over our own life.
My son never needed a nap...never. But I did. So when he was a toddler we started doing the Mommy needs a nap and you can have reading time in your room. I always felt guilty. But he was thrilled that he wasn't required to sleep and that he could "read" his books.
It's hard to think clearly at 2am when you just fell back asleep from the midnight wake-up call! On the other hand that's awesome he's not having accidents!! :)
Hope you had a good weekend!
I remember those days! I felt like potty training was a big mistake! Ha! It gets better. Seriously keep track of what is getting drank at night and always, always use the potty before bed.
A friend of mine actually woke her son when she went to be around 11 to get up and go to the bathroom! He didn't wake her!
Love this idea! I will have to participate next time.
For now, I will say I feel guilty about blogging during the day. I would hop on just to check things out, and 30 minutes would pass before I knew it. So, now I try to only do it at night or naptime. Currently, my kids are playing, and I am typing this comment. Not off to a great start.
I feel guilty whenever I get upset with my son when he is being cranky because he is tired...cause that boy really gets the tired crankies, but I know it's just because he is tired and in need of a nap.
I have one that I SHOULD feel guilty about but that I dont.
I dont let me kids eat processed sugar a lot of the time, but *I* still do. So every now and then I will have a cookie in front of them and when they ask me for some Ijust say no. Usually without remorse cause I know its good for them to not have sugar... but STILL!! I could be NICER about it!
Blessings-
Amanda
It's really hard to deal with that nighttime stuff. It's just painful to have sleep disturbed!
Oh the guilt. I was so refreshed when I pulled up your blog to read. That's right it's Monday!
Yes today was a kicker for us on the home front. The Mr. picked up some extra hours on the job so I went solo pretty much all day.
Needless to say I had one of THOSE days! No shower and we both stayed in our PJs all day. In fact I was so exhausted that I put her right back in bed this evening with the same jammies on. OH my! This after ketchup from lunch was still visible but had crusted into her little sleep & play. Need I say more?
With a month left to go until our little guy, I think I did OK. Poor Princess never had her hair brushed and watched way to much screen time.
I laugh now b/c I tell her a zillion times a day, 'mommy will be right back - going potty again'. I was thinking that might spark some interest in her potty training and we could work toward only having one in diapers.
At the moment I've lost all hope for that. I'm going to need as much sleep as I can get in the next few months. Am I crazy?! I'm not going to push the issue.
Congratz on the potty training going so well at night. Well while I'm up for the 10th time waddling myself downstairs to use the bathroom in the middle of the night - I'll say a little prayer for you to wake up well rested =)
Keep notes, I'm going to need them down the road - LOL :-)
Cheers!
How about this one:
Because of work and a teaching commitment I saw my daughter for a total of one hour today, where we went to her 18 month check up and she had to get shots. I bribed her back to loving me with a sucker, then I left her with her dad.
I feel like a horrible person for even typing that. :(
I would rather have him get up to go potty than have him wet the bed. He deserves a high five for letting you know he had to go.
P.S. I'll be answering your recent email soon.
I heard my son getting up in the middle of the night and throwing up. He didn't come wake me up so I thought about just staying in bed. However, I drug myself out of bed. He was so pathetic hanging over the toilet and then just sleeping on the floor. I'm glad I got up, but I really thought about not.
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