Potty Learning and Cloth

[MariesMama]

Hello ... I don't CD but am thinking of making the switch. My DD is almost 15 months. She is too young for PL now, but with disposables she never feels wet so I'm thinking it's going to make learning difficult. She sometimes lets me know when she is poopy, but never EVER when she is wet.

I'm just wondering if cloth would make this transition easier? So that she would know when she is wet and want to be changed, and then hopefully make the whole potty thing more appealing? Or am I way off base?

[syd'smom]

Cloth may help - and there is no rule that you can't introduce the potty now. We started very very casul ec when dd was 7mos - she was in a diaper most of the time; we did ec by timing mostly. Around 13mos, we gave her some nakey butt time and kept a potty in every room - I'd walk by a potty to discover she had used it! We used cloth the rest of the time. EC is a very child-centred, gentle approach to potty-learning. At 19mos, dd started requesting her diaper to be taken off to use the potty, and by 21mos she was out of dipes day and night. It was amazing - and I really felt like I did very little, other than offer her the opportunities to use the potty. But yes, I'm sure the wet cloth helps the process a bit too! Have fun and good luck!!