Hi! We have been doing EC very part time from 3 weeks old. Mostly I do timing, after naps, nursing, when she wakes with a dry dipe, etc. I can catch them best if I hold a bowl under her while she's nursing, but sometimes even that makes her mad and she fusses and kicks at the bowl like she doesn't want it there.
This morning she woke up just as it was time to take big sister to school (8:30). I scooped her up and she went with us. She was happy the whole time. She had last eaten about 6 or 6:30. I had last changed her dipe around midnight or so. When we got home I set her in her car seat in the window seat for a second. She started to fuss. I took her out of her seat and she did that little excited panting thing. When I picked her up she bobbed her head on my shoulder and started trying to scootch herself down from my shoulder to the cradle position. I'm sure you all have figured out by now that she was hungry! I knew from past experience that if I had tried to even remove her diaper so she could be over the bowl when she was that hungry she would have screamed bloody murder!! After she ate her nursing pattern changed and she pulled her legs up and grunted. A half second later she pooped. I've noticed sometimes in the morning she squirms in the bed if she has to poop.
Another time her diaper was only damp and cold when I took it off. I held the bowl under her while she ate and she didn't do anything. I took her in and held her over the sink and after a long time she pooped. I knew she had to pee, but she started fussing. I tried to encourage her, but she fussed louder, then cried. She finally went, but she was still crying. Sometimes she cries, then pees, then is very happy because she feels better. Other times she cries and I just can't keep her there because it feels like I'm torturing her.
At the grocery store I changed her when I had to use the bathroom. She was kind of squirmy and grunty and there was just a little poo in her diaper. I felt that I should try to poo her, but was too self-conscious with all the other ladies in the bathroom. Sure enough she pooped again after we'd left the bathroom!
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She gets very angry with me mostly when I try to pee her. If she needs to poop she is pretty cooperative. It also seems to me she will try to poop every time I hold her over the sink, but even if she has to pee she will fight it.
I'd like to do a diaperless day just to see what her patterns are and to see what signals I may be missing. I'm curious if anyone has any suggestions for me or what you've tried, or how you know your little one has to go, or the logistics of your day. Do you take them every time you change them? Some of you take them on waking, but that just makes Ellie mad. What does your baby do when he or she needs to go? How do you know? Do you have enough time to get baby to an appropriate receptacle? I'm just confused as to how all this works. As you can see from my example above it's pretty clear when she is hungry. I can also tell when she is sleepy. She fusses and rubs her eyes and tries to hide her face. I have some idea of when she has to poop, but other times I'm surprised to see it in her diaper. I didn't realize she'd even gone. Usually I can at least hear it! I haven't got a clue how to tell she needs to pee, though, except if she has a dry diaper.
One mom said she took her baby before an errand, and before coming home, etc. Sort of like pre-emptive pottying I guess. Do others of you have babies that go pretty much whenever you take them? Or are they like mine and get really upset if you try to potty them and they don't want to?
Help! I want to do this, but I can't figure it out!!
This morning she woke up just as it was time to take big sister to school (8:30). I scooped her up and she went with us. She was happy the whole time. She had last eaten about 6 or 6:30. I had last changed her dipe around midnight or so. When we got home I set her in her car seat in the window seat for a second. She started to fuss. I took her out of her seat and she did that little excited panting thing. When I picked her up she bobbed her head on my shoulder and started trying to scootch herself down from my shoulder to the cradle position. I'm sure you all have figured out by now that she was hungry! I knew from past experience that if I had tried to even remove her diaper so she could be over the bowl when she was that hungry she would have screamed bloody murder!! After she ate her nursing pattern changed and she pulled her legs up and grunted. A half second later she pooped. I've noticed sometimes in the morning she squirms in the bed if she has to poop.
Another time her diaper was only damp and cold when I took it off. I held the bowl under her while she ate and she didn't do anything. I took her in and held her over the sink and after a long time she pooped. I knew she had to pee, but she started fussing. I tried to encourage her, but she fussed louder, then cried. She finally went, but she was still crying. Sometimes she cries, then pees, then is very happy because she feels better. Other times she cries and I just can't keep her there because it feels like I'm torturing her.
At the grocery store I changed her when I had to use the bathroom. She was kind of squirmy and grunty and there was just a little poo in her diaper. I felt that I should try to poo her, but was too self-conscious with all the other ladies in the bathroom. Sure enough she pooped again after we'd left the bathroom!
She gets very angry with me mostly when I try to pee her. If she needs to poop she is pretty cooperative. It also seems to me she will try to poop every time I hold her over the sink, but even if she has to pee she will fight it.
I'd like to do a diaperless day just to see what her patterns are and to see what signals I may be missing. I'm curious if anyone has any suggestions for me or what you've tried, or how you know your little one has to go, or the logistics of your day. Do you take them every time you change them? Some of you take them on waking, but that just makes Ellie mad. What does your baby do when he or she needs to go? How do you know? Do you have enough time to get baby to an appropriate receptacle? I'm just confused as to how all this works. As you can see from my example above it's pretty clear when she is hungry. I can also tell when she is sleepy. She fusses and rubs her eyes and tries to hide her face. I have some idea of when she has to poop, but other times I'm surprised to see it in her diaper. I didn't realize she'd even gone. Usually I can at least hear it! I haven't got a clue how to tell she needs to pee, though, except if she has a dry diaper.
One mom said she took her baby before an errand, and before coming home, etc. Sort of like pre-emptive pottying I guess. Do others of you have babies that go pretty much whenever you take them? Or are they like mine and get really upset if you try to potty them and they don't want to?
Help! I want to do this, but I can't figure it out!!