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@Ivana
As you know, I am trying to convince my youngest daughter to start wearing a cb since quite some time. Since my last post here, I am proud to share that I made some efforts with her! Hard to explain, how lucky I am! There were lots of talks over months! It was really hard to convince her to just even try one of her sister's cbs for a minute! She is very strong-willed (which is generally positive) and she seems to be recognized that her older sisters have also weak times with their cbs. Well, mostly, they are ok with it and they got well used to it. (One of my girls even told me some weeks ago, that despite of occasional hard times, she generally feels proud of being well protected.) I trust them, that they don't say any negative about it, but somehow, she feels that there are times where it is different for them.
Finally, I was able to convince her to give it a try! As a deliberate decision from the beginning, I was always excluding her consequently from our common cleaning breaks, which made her a little jealous (exactly my intention). I offered her to join us for only one time, if she agrees to try her sister's cb for a moment. Well, the cb was a little too wide for her, but at least, it gave her an impression. She learned that it is not feeling cold or sharp (two of her concerns) and with all of us in the bathroom, we had fun and the atmosphere was great. All in all, she agreed to order a cb for her to give it a try! This all was already some weeks ago. Her cb arrived and we are now in her third week. We started with occasional wearing times for short periods (until she asks for opening). As I expected, it started sluggishly (I always had to initiate to take it on and she wore it between 30 mins to 2 hours until she gave up). Well, since there are some parties of her friends in the next weeks and months, the time is on my side. Then I remembered the agreement of Camille with her mom (actually the reason, why I remembered to have a look here). Last week, we started with 4 hours a day until I release her, increasing 15 minutes each day. Now, we reached 6 hours. When we will reach 8 hours next week, we are going to include step-by-step nights and times out of the house. It is still the case that she can't wait to get out of it, but I told her that it will be easier with getting used to it. Toilet is still an issue and she complains about itching in the crotch area, which is possibly just in her mind because the area down there is covered, now (for me, it was similar in the beginning). I still fear that she could decide to quit, so I don't want to push too far, yet.
@Ivana
Now to my news. Major topic of last weeks was acclimatization for my youngest daughter. As I said, we agreed to increase wearing times step-by-step. We came relatively fast to a point, where she wore it 12-16 hours a day, but then we stayed with that for about two weeks. I asked her several times if she ready to start wearing it permanently, but she always said that she needed more time. In my opinion, she was well prepared, but I let her. In between, we had discussions about belt fit and things. Finally, she started permanent wearing 2 weeks ago. It was a little celebratory and she was welcomed to us three. I am very glad! Since then, she is very proud, but I can see that she has a hard time these days. I guess, this is normal in the first weeks. Was similar for all of us in the beginning.
