Quiet... A little too quiet...

When Emma was a smaller baby, she had to have dead silence. I could not leave the room after putting her down until the heat kicked on or a.c. just to make sure I had a noise covering my sound. It was rough and I even wrote an article about how the house was "against" me because if I took a step it creaked every step.

Annabella, however,  is completely different!  Its crazy to see how different the 2 are. If it gets too silent Annabella is stiring. If she hears noise then she goes back to relaxing. It is fun to see how different they are and makes me wonder what the next will be like.

My mother-in-law talks about her oldest. She said that if any light in the house were on at all, he knew and was yelling for someone to come and get him. What have been your experience with these types of habits?

Diaper cover review: Flip

Hello everyone! Sorry it has been a while since an actual review, but here it is. We jump back into things with Flip diaper covers.

We have been using them for our oldest, up until she was potty trained, for about 4 months or so. There have been a lot of pros and cons to them and lets get started! Don't forget to join me on Facebook by hitting the link on the right and to subscribe to the feed for updates!

Price:
They are certainly not the cheapest way to go when it comes to covers. From the sites we purchase from they start at $14.95 and go from there. With that price you can buy 3 Bububibi, not including inserts, covers and be set for a while. Or are you?

Quality:
One of the first things you'll notice, unlike the bububibi brand, is that the area the legs come out of are all the same material as the rest of the diaper as well as the similar coating. It doesnt sound like much because the area is only a couple cm wide, but when your child has a huge wet diaper it makes a difference. We went 3 days before we had to switch to a different cover and the only reason was because her BM was runny and got the cover all nasty, but there was no leak.

Maintenance:
I would recommend this with all cloth diaper covers. Hand wash them. It keeps you from having to worry about the protective coat being washed out or jeopardize. They do stain easily, but that has been my experience with other covers as well, but they clean up nicely. If you don't get the poo off the covers shortly after the accident, the stains can become permanent.

Colors/patterns:
The Flip covers come with some gorgeous patterns and the earth toned colors are bright and look good. The lovelace is my favorite and we have gotten many compliments on them. Most don't realize they are cloth diapers.

Conclusion:
The Flip brand covers are our favorite diaper covers webhave used so far. The price isn't insanely out of reach and if you get a few with some prefolds, you can get to free shipping quite quickly. My wife and I started with 3 and after a week of using them decided to get three more. We have not run out of the covers yet and most of them still look brand new. I highly recommend the Flip brand covers and hope that this post has helped you in your purchase!

Here is a link to a trusted sight I have used in the past with great reviews and quick delivery.
https://www.nickisdiapers.com/mobile/flip-diaper-covers.html#

Please let me know your experience with Flip or any other cover you have used in the past!

Baby Rule of 3

Ive come to the conclusion that there is a baby rules of three.  Like with all things, so says Murphy "anything that can go wrong will go wrong", but not just once for use but thrice.

Annabella was having a rough night and couldn't fall to sleep and Emma woke up, not cause she heard her sister,  but because she just woke up (you cant hear baby crying from the other side of the house). Then after a long time putting Annabella to sleep I finally got Emma down. Then Emma woke back up an hour later waking Annabella back up...

I know this sounds like 4, but I actually only count that as 2, one for each wake-up. The third came in a form of me not having to work on Monday and then finding out that I did. Doesnt sound like a big deal until you know that we had a doctor appointment early in the morning and I had planned on going to help my wife with the girls. So now she had to drive 1hr and 30mins to get there wait an hour for the doc cause he was behind, then drive back the hour and a half.

Have any of you noticed there is a baby rule of 3? If so what brought it to your attention?

The Strongend

 you follow me on fb youll know that I have been having great success with Emma and her potty training!  I've stopped asking herto tell me when she needs to go and have just trusted her to tell me. I'm impressed!

She has had 2 accidents. 1 diarrhea and the other just a little tinkle. Im very happy with the way things turned out. The book talked about how you need to persist. I think we may have relinquished a bit and caused out own issues. Idk if this is normal for kids or not, but we went to the store and had no accidents and church and she went twice there! (She loved the toddler potty). Zig ziglar talks about the way you use your words can effect the outcome of your attitude.

For instance: "go lights" instead of stop lights. Or "opportunity alarm" instead of alarm clock.  We used strongend instead of weekend! Do you use any words that would normally be identified as negatives and if so, hownlong didnit take you to get to that point where it was natural?  I still have issues using positive words over negative!

Accidents happen

Yesterday was far better than the day before! Emma was able to go to the bathroom a few times, but she only went 4 or 5 times rather than her normal 8 or so. These are total trips to the bathroom, not just successful trips. She just keeps holding it and waiting until she can't hold it anymore. With the success of only 2 trips I'm going to more on to something else...

Annabella. She is almost 3 weeks old and is small. It's crazy to think that Emma was just 1 inch longer than her when she was first born. I've tried cloth diapers, Flips and Bububibi, and both covers leak. Her legs are too small? Perhaps. For sure the Bububibi are much tighter and get far smaller than the Flips, but they still leaked and got on blankets and clothes and etc. I don't remember having this issues with Emma, but then again, we had a whole different issue with her (not eating well).

Have you ever used cloth diapers on a newborn? If so, what did you use for your diaper covers and what worked?

Yesterday is not Today...

Well, although we had a great time on the 1st, but yesterday it was so different. The 3 day Potty Training Method was keen to talk about regression, but not after the 1st day. I wonder if maybe I should have weened her off of the time I gave Emma day by day instead of just going back to normal schedule of getting the newborn and cleaning/cooking.

She woke in the morning and said, "good morning," then signed and said, "more potty" and we went to the bathroom successfully. I was excited. She didn't wet the bed and she started of so well...

That was very short lived. We gave her, her juice and ate and it quickly declined from there. Every so often it was her wetting the floor or pooping in her pants. It took everything in me to not get frustrated. The frustration isn't because she had the accident, but because she was capable to hold it and then would just let it go on the ground. She had 1 successful potty and 9 accidents. They were spread out.

I'm really hoping that she does so much better today. I'm not really looking forward to another day of picking her up and running her to the bathroom. Did anyone else have this same issue? Or was there a strategy that you used to keep it from happening? Not sure where I dropped the ball as we did everything the same except the 100% attention to her. Please let me know in the comments.

3 day potty training - final wrap up

So the three days have come and gone. One thing to keep in mind with doing this is that you must have someone to help with the other children/child, if you have more than one.  The hardest part was keeping myself from going to get my other daughter when mommy was needing to do something. Also, I generally cook and clean and was unable to do so. This caused frustration for my wife.

Thankfully,  we were able to get through it thanks to our daughter. One thing the book mentions is that for the first 2 days the child could possibly have an accident every time they need to go and on the last day it'll just "click". If Emma had done this my wife and I would be having a very different conversation,  mainly because she would most likely be the one to clean it because I had to shadow and keep Emma with me to catch the accidents as they happened.

We learned this as I was cooking and had Emma next to me in a chair "helping" and she just started peeing and I didnt notice any ques or any pleads for help. After thatbmy wofe did the cooking.

Overall,  it was a great experience and I do recomend the "3 day potty training" eBook. Have any other suggestions please let me know in the comments. I'll let y'all know how the day after goes!

PS I do realize that 2 and 3 are out of order.  I posted 3 before I realized that 2 never went live. Sorry.

Potty Training - day 2 self doubt

It's crazy to think that today is day 2 of training.  Emma is doing a fantastic! It's me that is having the issue. Idk if any of you reading this have ever fasted or not, but when you do it for a while,  you start to have self doubt, as though you could have done it, but there is justba mental block that is keeping you from progressing. Ive pushed past it, but man was it attacking!

My wife is doing better, especially with Emma having so few accidents. She us really getting on board. Emma at times seems so determined to not only not have an accident but to also not go in the potty that she only went half as many times today as she did yesterday.  I ended up giving her a shower cause she had drank 2 cups of juice and hadn't peed in 2hours!  She couldn't hold it in the shower and I'm glad cause she needed her nap.

Days tally:
Accidents    half accidents    success
        2                      2                       7

My hope is that things go better tomorrow and that I dont go crazy from Emma holding it in for so long! What was the worst day for some of you?

Potty Training - day 3 already over

It seems like we just started this morning and already it has come to an end. Emma had a few accidents today, 2, but really they weren't that bad and 1 included over night.  To celebrate we are going to chuck e. Cheese this weekend and hopefully things go well there. She can hold her liquid for 2 to 3 hours, which drives me crazy, and that was a problem.

Continually I tried caught myself almost forcing her to go to the bathroom because I knew she had to and was refusing.  Of two half accidents she had she still fought me on one of them. I was on the edge of my seat for all three days watching her like a bomb about to explode.  It was kind of nerve wrecking and tiring.  Her last 3 potty breaks she told me she had to go and was abke to without fail. I did take her anshower at the end of the day just in case she decided there was still a little more she was holsong on to. Im really hoping that tomorrw she wakes dry.

Day three wasnt as hard as day 2 but it was still difficult for me to stop and I found myself slipping and wanting to fully engage in a movie, Despicable Me 2, and just enjoy it. We didnt watch much tv because she zones out and has a hard time snapping out of it and I kinda do the same. So we spend the time playing games, singing and doing puzzles.

Todays tally:
Accidents       half accidents     success
         1                         2                       8

What distractions did you use and did they work because we will still have at least 1 more to train and all suggestions help!