Funny comments from skeptical family

[Harmony96]

So I am just part-time ECing w/ DS, with full-time diaper backup. I don't know his signals, so when we do it, we do it on timing. Some days are better than others.

My sister is all "he doesn't know what he's doing on the potty." I beg to differ, since he frequently wakes up from a nap w/ a dry diaper and then waits for me to get around and get his diaper unfastened and get him TO the potty before he goes. Anyway, so this afternoon, I noticed that DS needed a potty-tunity (he'd been dry, etc.). Sis was there, so I invited her into the bathroom, where DS did pee and also have a small but noisy poo. Sis asked me if he tooted, lol. I just said no.

She looked in the toilet afterwards and saw his #2 (which was normal soft BF'd poo) and said "Oh, well it's diarrhea, no wonder he can go on demand." lol. There's just no convincing some people. But I thought her comments were funny.

[Harmony96]

I forgot something, lol. This same sister has a 4 yr old who still does not reliably poop in the potty. So after I showed her what B can do, she went and told her DS, "You know what? I just saw that little baby go poop in the potty." Her DS thought about it for a second, then scowled and crossed his arms and said, "Not fair. I want to poop in the potty, too!" LOL.

[syd'smom]

Cause diarrhea is easier to control?? Weird. I know some people just don't want to hear it. I think they think it is an attack on their parenting by having my baby go on the potty. Whatever. You keep going - we did the same kind of casual EC with dd, and she was out of dipes, day and night, by 21mos!

[Perdita_in_Ontario]

I got told this weekend that DS is "just conditioned" to use the potty (we also use CD backup fulltime)

He's 5 months old, and clearly prefers to use the potty and will hold his pee when we're at home, even though we use a stay-dry CD system. Uh, yeah, he's conditioned. Kind of like everyone who uses a toilet...

[N&M]

I feel lucky. Nobody has made any really negative EC comments...to my face!! I cringe to think what they may say when not around me or DH. Probably that I'm just a crazy, overzealous, new mom.

I did have one aunt comment to me, "Have you finally gotten tired of all that pottying business yet?" She seemed to think it was way more work than just diapering (even after seeing it in action). I had to explain to her that it was less work! If I am going to change the baby after every wet, isn't it just easier to anticipate her needs and put her on the potty? It never occurred to me that many people aren't as obsessed with changing after every wet as I am. So I guess for them, it would seem harder/unrealistic and hence their skepticism?

[InMediasRes]

My DD is 17mo, almost fully out of diapers (uses one or two at night on occasion when we're having a bad night) and I have to say, all those skeptical "that seems like so much work" comments have turned into "I can't believe your baby is almost fully potty trained!" with accompanying jaws dropping. They didn't believe it until we showed up at their houses in pull ups and stayed dry the whole time. My mom, who thought it was "gross" has even just spontaneously taken DD to pee a few times and has totally fallen in love with the whole process. She congratulated me the other day, saying "You know, it seemed like so much work at first, but some people have a lot of work to go through trying to PL at 3 or 4 years old. This seems like it was so smooth and easy for everyone."

So...they might come around, no matter when your kid is independent, to see that there is absolutely no trauma and no real "training" involved even.

[emmaegbert]

lol my parents love it and they are always boasting about it to others (I usually don't bring it up unless the topic of infant elimination arises... and if you aren't hanging with a bunch of moms, I find it almost never does, but proud grandparents, thats another story!) My mom does misremember the term as "elimination conversation" and then thinks of it as a hilarious name- which it is.

[dogretro]

Originally Posted by Perdita_in_Ontario

I got told this weekend that DS is "just conditioned" to use the potty (we also use CD backup fulltime)

I really don't give a flip if my kid is conditioned to use the toilet. Less poopy diapers are still less poopy diapers. They can stuff it up their noses

[sosurreal09]

DD loves the potty and shes 10 m/o some days we have maybe one wet dipe...seriously. se can hold it like 2-3hours if she wants has been waking up dry from naps since 4 m/o and goes potty right away upon waking i have had family in utter shock at this. (DP's fam. my family is Polish so they do this in Poland anyway its just normal there) they get all excited and say what a big girl DD is and everything and she looks at them like they are nuts.
i had DD at toys r us with me and she did pee and poop in the public bathroom and im like oh god job you had some super stinkies huh and wiped her up and went to go wash her hands and this lady was in there and stareing at me like she'd seen a gost. she was like did that baby just go the bathroom?!?! i said yeah don't we all smiled and walked out. you should have seen the look on this woman's face it was hilarious

[lisavark]

Originally Posted by sosurreal09

she was like did that baby just go the bathroom?!?! i said yeah don't we all smiled and walked out.

HAHAHAHA!!!!!

I am totally using that with my next kid. I don't get the amazed stares anymore now that DD is 2.5!

[hrsmom]

I just had a woman tell me one time that I couldn't take my baby to the potty. She was five weeks or so old and I had already figured out that if I put her on the potty after she started a poop in her diaper, that she would often poop some more on the potty. We were at a party at my mom's. I did debate whether or not to take her in the bathroom, because some of my girlfriends went in with me to change the diaper, but I figured I would just go ahead! (At that point we were catching some poops, too, but lots of catches started in the diaper and finished on the potty.) So I was in the bathroom with my dd and the woman was telling me I couldn't. Whatever!

My uncle and family came over right after bath time once when my LO was tiny. They said something like oh she must love being out of the diaper. I said I had her out of a diaper a lot and explained what I was doing. They said, "oh, well, I guess that's what they do in Africa." It was cute and nice the way they said it!

My parents did their share of bragging, too. Again, whatever!