Potty training and Emetophobia

Is there anything grosser then dealing with potty training? I mean seriusly changing those little potty seats numerous times a day is a pain in the behind. It is dirty and makes me go through a bottle of clorox bleach a day (slight exageration here) just to sanitize my life after cleaning.

I know the big mistake I made. I should have never bough a potty chair. I should have just stuck with the potty seat on a real toilet. I mean it is so much less clean up and dealing with poop, a non-issue.

My advice to any parent out there is as follows: your child will train themselves when they are ready, don't stress out about keeping up with the Jones because your child will feel forced and regress back to their diaper wearing self (I know from experience) and don't by a little potty when a a toilet seat cover is so much neater.

Emetophobia and Diarrhea

Funny thing, diarreha does not bother me.

I know I have emetophobia, but I am afraid of vomit and vomitting, not diarrhea. I have no problem with the big D. It happens and I survive it. My kids have it and I put on plastic gloves, change them and deal.

I don't know if this is normal for emetophobes or not. I mean I would like to think it is. I would like to think that fear of the big d is its own thing. I have been trying to find what the heck it would be called, but I only found Rhypophobia- Fear of defecation. Seriously this would be so much worse then emetophobia. I mean imagine being afraid to poop. You can't stop it, it has to happen and happen it does a few times a week.


I also found this phobia, Defecaloesiophobia- Fear of painful bowels movements, I can see this as a fear of diarrhea. i mean who likes painful bowel movements? I don't. In fact I found a ton of phobias I am personally glad I do not have. Check out this website, it rules. If you ever feel like life sucks because you have emetophobia, there are worse phobias to have, much worse. For example we could have urophobia, the fear of urine and urinating. How do you avoid urinating? Does it induce a panick attack every time you pee? I would hate that. What about the fear of beautiful women (Venustraphobia) do you hide out in places where no one could possibly attractive or just avoid women all together.


So my point is, and really I do have one, emetophobia sucks. I hate it, I can't explain it to my husband, it has its intricacies, but at least I don't have anxiety attacks when I pee.

OT: Wardrobe Refashion Pledge

I have been meaning to do this for some time. I love shopping, I love clothes, and I love (but am not all that skilled at) designing and sewing clothes. I finally bit the bullet and will be participation in the two month (baby steps) Wardrobe refashion challenge. For those of you who are not familiar with Wardrobe Refashion here is the pledge....

The Pledge

I Robin Neorr pledge that I shall abstain from the purchase of "new" manufactured items of clothing, for the period of 2 / 4 / 6 months. I pledge that i shall refashion, renovate, recycle preloved items for myself with my own hands in fabric, yarn or other medium for the term of my contract. I pledge that I will share the love and post a photo of my refashioned, renovoted, recycled, crafted or created item of clothing on the Wardrobe Refashion blog, so that others may share the joy that thy thriftiness brings! Signed Robin Neorr.

Sure my sewing skills are limited, and I love to shop, but I think I can change, really I can change. So let's see how I do. It all starts on January 1st.  Are you going to take the pledge?

The test results are in...

I have been having some health scares lately, strange rashes, hair falling out in clumps, nausea.

I went to a new doctor who I *love* and she did a lot of blood work. I am happy to say everything is just fine. No thyroid issues (they run in my family) and no lupus (she thought that was the problem).

I am happy and healthy and well tired, but I have a teething eleven month old so what do you expect.

If you need to get in touch

I have been crazy busy this holiday season, and no I am not sick or pregnant, thank goodness.

I know a lot of you have questions for me and I am here to help. Please feel free to email me anytime at raspilka-free@yahoo.com.

Stay healthy and have a great holiday season.

So Am I Pregnant Again?

Okay first off, the answer to that is no.

I have been feeling a little off, and when my husband did some woodworking I was overcome with the smell. I was worried because I am not quite ready for baby number three. I mean baby number two is, well not even one.

Here is why this post even bothers to make the blog. I wasn't stressed out of my gourd because of morning sickness. I didn't even think about it. It never crossed my mind until I decided to post. My fear was, well financial. I was worried about affording three kids in a not so pretty economy (am I alone on this? I doubt it...LOL).

So here it is. I went from feeling for about twentyfive years that I was the only person with emetophobia, to learning what was really wrong with me (thank you Dr. D but I am not BiPolar - I have emetophobia and a tinge of OCD), to getting married and suprise getting pregnant with baby #1, surviving pregnancy and choosing to have baby number two, to worrying about being pregnant with number three from a completely rational "normal person" fear of money.

So things with emet can get better. They do get better, and after everything you can lead the normal life you always dreamt of. I know my biggest fear growing up was getting pregnant, and now that I have done it twice and survived I am not afraid of it at all. Sigh...happy sigh...of relief.

Pondering The Emet Connection

There are so many of us out there and it would really help if we could get connected on a more personal level. granted I pretty much publish my life via the internet so I don't know how much more personal it gets (LOL).

So ideas. Should we add to the blog...

A discussion board (if so how)

Ways to contact each other via instant messanger

Any other ideas (Skype, Conference call, etc.)

Oh I just don't know but I have had a lot of people email me saying they want to talk to someone else that understands (crazy how alone we feel and I think, I really do, that it is in part because we don't know or understand that we really do have a true phobia that is driving some of our out of the ordinary behaviors.)

Give me your input.

Thanks.