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I am hoping to get some stories and some ideas. My husband did 3xBEP at the start of the year and was done at the end of March.
We have three girls, 8, 4 and 2. All the girls seemed to do quite well with everything related to the cancer and to chemo while it was going on.
About a month after everything was done our 4 year old (5 in November) who had been potty trained since she was 4 (she is a stubborn cookie, just like her Daddy...she won't do ANYTHING unless you force her or until she wants to). Anyhow, she regressed with going potty. It started out slow, but by June it was full blow backwards. She wasn't going into the potty at all.
I thought maybe she had a UTI, so I took her to see her Dr. No UTI. He said it was most likely a delayed response to my husband's treatment and the stress of the cancer. So he suggested many rewards and reward charts to help her get back on track. After a few days of potty charts she had had enough of it and it wasn't rewarding enough. So we decided since she had been wanting a Nintendo DS SO badly we would make that her reward. We told her after she went potty 20 times in a row, not including night time, we would get it for her. We have been trying now for 3 weeks and she still hasn't made it past 6. And now today she compleatly stopped trying at all.
We aren't pushing her at all or punishing her, you can't force a kid to go potty. Her pediatrician wanted me to call him back after 2 weeks to let him know how it is going. It has been 6 weeks and I haven't called, because I am still hoping something will work! He wants her to go see a psychologist if the potty chart didn't work.
You can only imagine how against it my husband is.
So if any of you with younger children went through something similar, if you could share how things worked out I would be so greatful.
Becki
We have three girls, 8, 4 and 2. All the girls seemed to do quite well with everything related to the cancer and to chemo while it was going on.
About a month after everything was done our 4 year old (5 in November) who had been potty trained since she was 4 (she is a stubborn cookie, just like her Daddy...she won't do ANYTHING unless you force her or until she wants to). Anyhow, she regressed with going potty. It started out slow, but by June it was full blow backwards. She wasn't going into the potty at all.
I thought maybe she had a UTI, so I took her to see her Dr. No UTI. He said it was most likely a delayed response to my husband's treatment and the stress of the cancer. So he suggested many rewards and reward charts to help her get back on track. After a few days of potty charts she had had enough of it and it wasn't rewarding enough. So we decided since she had been wanting a Nintendo DS SO badly we would make that her reward. We told her after she went potty 20 times in a row, not including night time, we would get it for her. We have been trying now for 3 weeks and she still hasn't made it past 6. And now today she compleatly stopped trying at all.
We aren't pushing her at all or punishing her, you can't force a kid to go potty. Her pediatrician wanted me to call him back after 2 weeks to let him know how it is going. It has been 6 weeks and I haven't called, because I am still hoping something will work! He wants her to go see a psychologist if the potty chart didn't work.
You can only imagine how against it my husband is.
So if any of you with younger children went through something similar, if you could share how things worked out I would be so greatful.
Becki
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