Having fun with EC...

[DallasCPM]

DS has gone in his potty 3 times so far today! It's a record for us!

And the best part? I have a friends that refuses to cd, but she came over this morning to drop her kids off for me to babysit. She saw his little potty and just laughed at me. That's cute, but he's WAY TOO YOUNG, she says. When I told her that he used it, she kinda rolled her eyes and said, OK, well maybe you were lucky once or twice, but it's not like Julian knows what he's doing....

Then when she came to pick her kids up, she hung around for a while. Julian gave me his cues, I took off his diaper, and put him on the little potty. I asked "Do you want to go pee?"

He immediately peed! My friend was shocked and said I have to show her how to do that! If I can't get her to switch to cd, at least I can help her reduce the number of disposables she's using!

Thanks for letting me share!

[Sandra Dee]

HOLY COW!!!

I thought - heh- you showed her ---until I read the age of your DS. You have to tell ME how to do that!!!

I know, I know - buy the book. LOL

Seriously, though - how do you pick up on the cues?

[HeatherSanders]

I know . . . Kenny actually smiles when he cues and I respond. Boy he can hold his poopie on the trip down the hall to the restroom where we have his little potty!!! He cracks up at his own farts . . . probably b/c his daddy is so proud of his son's manly flatulance!!!

momschooling there is a load of info online. Here's a place that is a good read w/ many resources!!!

My Journey to Elimination Communication

[DallasCPM]

Actually, I haven't bought any books. Just read threads here and checked out this website...

http://www.freewebz.com/freetoec/index.htm

Every morning, when he first wakes up.
Right after his morning and afternoon nap.
5-10 minutes after each nursing session (not so successful here, but we try...)
And then I just watch for *those faces* that I'm starting to recognize.
We are out and about a bunch during the day though, so that makes things tough!

[Novajet]

Way to go, Julian!

[NaturalMom]

Cori, what a great story... ESPECIALLY since it was in front of someone who uses disposables

[WinterBaby]

We had an exciting couple ec days. We had been just using the bathroom sink, but my sister bought us a few little potties that came wednesday. We were trying out the smaller bjorn potty yesterday morning, and dd loves it! It's on the bathroom counter and she looks at herself in the mirror, stompies her little feet and laughs. She liked it well enough to christen it with a poop it's first day in use. (We don't have a great track record with catching poops for some reason.) THEN - she peed in the toilet at Target. (We hadn't managed a public restroom before.) And today she peed in the toilet at a friend's house during a play date. I was very excited for her, lol. Am I the only one that feels like a total freak to be all excited about these things? I call up my sister to tell her about this stuff even, LOL. She suggests that I join the ec talk here, and I tell her I don't want to Publicly acknowledge being very odd. But my enthusiasm for communicating better with dd over this is winning today!

[HeatherSanders]

And Winterbaby - your sister is . . . . um . . . CLARITY???

[Quirky]

Hey WinterBaby, your sick and twisted secret is safe with us! :LOL It's really hard to bite my tongue and not brag to my childless friends about how we got all the poops in the potty today....they would run screaming!

Baby Bjorn Little Pottys rock....check these pix out!

Evan on the potty

A little light reading

Bombadier baby

[HeatherSanders]

Jane, those are sooooo cute! I like the bombadier one!

[Quirky]

Thanks!! I love that hat - it makes me smile, it's so goofy. He's almost outgrown it....sniff, sniff.

[HeatherSanders]

Jane, I noticed he's wearing Old Navy socks . . . we buy those and Baby Gap simply because they STAY ON. I've been so frustrated with socks and shoes that I'm down to those two styles of socks ONLY and I'm waiting on Robeez 'no-slip' navy shoes. I hope they are as wonderful as all the raves.

[Quirky]

Yeah, that's my boy, sporting ads for corporate America on his little tootsies...: but you're right, they do stay on! I can't really see spending the $$$ for shoes quite yet. But check these out: my sister made them! She got *all* the crafty genes...

Bunny slippers

Don't tell her that the slippers always, always slide off in five seconds, OK?

[HeatherSanders]

Bunny slippers that 'hop' off, eh? :LOL

I know - I really didn't think I'd spend money on shoes either, but they are soft leather and don't slip off and will keep his feet warm and protected when out and about - of course, at home we don't do shoes.

[WinterBaby]

Yeah, I think I've moved into the lead for weirdest mom in our play group for now with the ec thing, so I wasn't anxious to advertise it as our new hobby. In fact, it's probably been what's kept me from taking any pics of dd on her potty, cute as I think she is. (See, all this time right up until we started to do the ec thing I've clung to an internal belief that I'm an entirely mainstream mama. Really! But I'm having trouble rationalizing ec as mainstream... :LOL )


The bunny slippers are very cute! But big raves for robeez here. They keep her socks on when out and at home when it's chilly enough she needs socks on, the robeez give her a little extra traction on our hard floors while still being entirely soft, toe-wiggly, and comfortable.

And yep, Clarity is my sister of much potty generosity. (Also giver of sugar peas, loaner of fb turnip set - which I didn't take for fear dh would subject the wool to a wash disaster, lol. But it's good to have a diaper hyena as a sister )

[NaturalMom]

Well, we hit a milestone today: Nolan went to the potty at Home Depot! He was squirming/fussing, so I took him to the bathroom, into a stall, and held him over it - and he peed! It was his first time going in the toilet, so when it made the tinkle sound hitting the water, he looked down and watched... Maybe that will intrigue him enough to keep going in the big potty!

[HeatherSanders]

s up for Nolan and mommy!!!!!!

[hoppytoad]

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Jane, do you mind me asking what kind of camera you have? It takes great pictures! My sister is looking for a good one. Is your's a digital? If it is, I may just have to replace the one I have, too. Thanks

[Ruth]

I EC'd my first baby, now 5, although I didn't know it was called EC and I waited kinda late to start. I thought she had to be able to sit up (duh!).

My second EC baby was a foster baby I had last summer. I probably started earlier than her one month birthday, but I remember the first time with great joy! (yes, we are wierd mothers here). We had gone out of town and stayed in a hotel with a balcony. It was a warm summer evening so I took her out on the balcony (No, I wouldn't let a big kid pee out on the balcony) and she did it. I was stunned! She slept on top of me from the time she came to my home at 5 days old until she left 3 months later. She never once peed on me after that night.

She went back to her extended family (sigh) but I wrote a long note explaining that she was "potty trained" and telling them if they wanted to continue how they could. I thought it was too presumptuous to TELL them to do it even though it would have been the more humane thing to do.

[luzinsleep]

Ok, I had to laugh when I read this thread, because I am the friend who laughed!!! Even funnier reading this, is knowing that curiosity got the better of me and I tried EC with my dd and it worked! We have even been CD for a few months and love it too! So, thank you Cori, for being such a weird, wonderful influence on us!