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    Kerplunk
    Kerplunk
    Kerplunk
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    Kerplunk

    By Aimee Elliott Ghimire

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    Kerplunk is a practical, easy-to-follow and step-by-step guide to potty training your child by 18 months. This book is based on a system developed by a mother of four children. Considering how flawlessly the process worked, the author started to document the process and compiled it into this handy book for the benefit of other parents.

    Kerplunk is meant for the busy Mama: simple and to the point. It provides the A-Z on how to get your kid in undies by 18 months. It includes tips, tricks and a detailed run-down of how to potty train your baby, whether you begin at 3 months of age or 18 months of age. It can be modified, customized, and adapted to fit your lifestyle. You pick when to start and how involved you will be. You choose how fast or how slow you will go. You decide when to put baby in undies.

    Kerplunk includes many helpful hints and a variety of tools to enhance your potty training experience. Parents of babies who are 0-24 months will find a wealth of information in these pages and everything they need to successfully complete early potty training.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAimee Elliott Ghimire
    Release dateFeb 28, 2017
    ISBN9781370465774
    Kerplunk
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    Aimee Elliott Ghimire

    Aimee Elliott Ghimire is a happy Mama of four lovely girls: Anika, 10; Sarina, 8; Priyasha, 6 and Elina, 3. She is married to Shailesh, who comes from Nepal, and they currently reside in beautiful Gilbert, Arizona. Besides raising kiddos, she also runs a digital marketing agency and enjoys hiking, speaking, leading worship and traveling.

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      Kerplunk - Aimee Elliott Ghimire

      MommyMedicine.com presents:

      Kerplunk:

      The Definitive Guide to Getting Your Baby in Undies by 18 Months

      Aimée Elliott Ghimire

      Copyright 2017 by Aimée Elliott Ghimire

      Illustrated by: Gary Whittington

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Prologue: How it All Began…

      Chapter 1: What to Expect

      Phase I: The Wooing

      Chapter 2: Set the Stage

      Chapter 3: Get in Gear

      Chapter 4: Take the Plunge

      Phase II: The Courtship

      Chapter 5: Learning the Ropes

      Chapter 6: Customize Your Potty Times

      Chapter 7: Stumbling Across New Territory

      Chapter 8: Get in the Groove

      Chapter 9: Glimmers of Hope

      Chapter 10: Humming Along

      Chapter 11: Pre-Flight Check

      Phase III: The Marriage

      Chapter 12: Undie Stage, Here We Come

      Chapter 13: The Launch

      Chapter 14: The Whirlwind

      Chapter 15: Insights

      Chapter 16: The Bottom Line

      Epilogue: Now That You Are Done...

      Appendix: Questions and Answers

      About the Author

      About the Illustrator

      Prologue: How it All Began...

      The beginning is the most important part of the work.

      - Plato

      My first baby was only a few weeks old. My eyes were aglow with the joy of motherhood. I was eager and full of energy, and so I declared it was time to do my part as a mother in the community.

      With that, I volunteered for nursery duty at church. Little did I know what I was to encounter. Unfortunately for me, I was the only adult on the schedule that Sunday. So, when I caught the distinct whiff of a poopy diaper floating about the room, my heart sank. Playing with the kiddos was one thing; changing a diaper was quite another. I knew I had to grit my teeth and do the honors, but I was unprepared for what followed. I caught the massive 14-month-old in my arms, laid him down, and began to un-Velcro his diaper. He was placid, seemingly thankful that I was changing him. His demeanor was unfazed, and he was not wiggly at all.

      Instead, I was the one who squirmed as the smell of digested beef-and-potatoes baby- food-from-a-jar wafted past my nose. The poop was sticky and smelly. A horrible mess. I waded through an abundance of wipees, turning my head to suck in clean air, then daring to come back again and again to tackle the cleaning of his little toddler bottom. As I finished and lifted nearly 30 pounds of chunky baby back to his feet, I vowed I would never, ever clean my baby’s poopy diapers day in and day out at this age. Once mine were eating solid foods and their bowel movements had this same horrid smell and texture, I simply wouldn’t do it! There had to be another way.

      And there was. Once my daughter was about 3 months old, I started browsing the Internet. I read up on infant potty training. I liked what I was reading but, at the same time, thought it a bit extreme. Holding my 6-week-old baby over a pot just didn’t seem that important or relevant to me. The idea of training baby sphincter muscles, however, was fascinating. And the thought of not having to change nauseating toddler diapers was the clincher.

      Every time my mother-in-law visited from overseas, she loved letting our babies go sans diaper. She says it is good for them. I agree. Fewer rashes. Smooth baby bottoms. And she says babies in her country learn to pee on the potty young, My son was using the potty at 12 months. Of course, she says a lot of things about her son (my husband). Mothers will. Yet her words spoke to me. If people in remote, Himalayan villages can potty train their 1-year-olds, why can’t we?

      I began training my daughter at 8½ months for two reasons. One: I did not want her in diapers at age 3. Two: I simply did not want to wipe creamy, chunky, potent poop off her cute, baby butt multiple times a day for the years preceding age 3. I knew from what I read and heard that I didn’t have to. So, I decided I wouldn’t.

      So, one bright morning, when my husband went on a week-long trip and I knew I had a good, solid window, I commenced my potty-training journey. Baby was 8½ months old, and I was very focused.

      My daughter got put on the potty a handful of times on Day 1. I had her bare-bottomed part of that day so I could catch her peeing and explain to her what she was doing. After dinner, she peed on the potty for the very first time. Oh, the thrill! All my craziness had paid off.

      On Day 3, when I was cleaning up a poopy diaper, I explained, this is poo-poo. I then took her to the potty and dumped it in. We said bye to the poop. (Mind you, she couldn’t speak yet. So really, I was the one who said bye. She was an innocent and very curious bystander.) By Day 7, she had peed for me on the potty quite a bit. On Day 9, she did her first poop on the potty! Within a few weeks, she was regularly pooping and peeing for me on the potty. And by Day 21, she even began to signal to me that she was going potty, and showed signs of being able to hold it until she was put on the potty.

      By 10 months of age, she would often go potty for me on demand. When she was 11 months old she would want off the potty if she was done, knowing she had finished her job.

      By 12 months, she was communicating her need to go more clearly. From 13 months on, I basically did not have to change a poopy diaper unless she was sick and had diarrhea. And even then, she went on the potty several times because she knew she needed to go--we just had to get to that potty fast! At 15 months, she was even staying dry between potty times. Some days, I would use the same clean, dry diaper for a whole day. By 16 months, she was interrupting my phone conversations to tell me she needed to poop. By 20 months, she was in the smallest size of Elmo underwear out there. She was potty trained, and I was a happy mama.

      The first few weeks of potty training, I was not so sure about anything. Was I out of my mind? What was I thinking? But, once baby and I moved into a smooth and simple routine (about 4 to 6 weeks after we started) and she knew what to do. I was absolutely sold! As was my husband. I have not yet met a husband who is excited about dirty diapers. My husband soon became my biggest fan. Go, Aimee, go!

      Now, you may say, Well, I work, or I have a business, or I have other kids. I was full-time employed with my first child. I was part-time employed with my second. I was a stay-at-home-mom with my third. And I was running a business by my fourth. All four were in undies by 20 months old. Potty training Kerplunk style can fit into most routines, almost like eating and sleeping. It just becomes a part of your life with baby.

      My second child was in undies at 19 months. My third was in undies at 17 months. And my fourth was in undies by 18 months. Interestingly, with each child, I actually relaxed my potty routine more. And enjoyed it more. It was manageable. It was fun. It connected me and baby. And, most importantly, it worked!

      And because it worked, I had 19-month-old toddlers prancing around the park with princess and Elmo undies on, showing off the outline of their adorable little buns in place of a bulging, smelly diaper. Moms would approach me and ask how and why I did it. And so I decided to write this book. This book is my answer.

      Chapter 1: What to Expect

      Always desire to learn something useful.

      - Sophocles

      If you are the rare, potty-training dad, I

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