My mother made me ask this question

I was thinking my mom wasn't phased by anything and now I find out that she's all kinds of wimpy.

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Wondr if she'll change her tune once she sees how much easier it is to clean the baby's bottom with EC!

We have always used the bathroom sink. When poos were runny, I'd just run the water and let it all run down the drain. Now that DS is on solids and poops are usually pretty solid, I just pick it up with a piece of TP and flush it down the toilet. Then there are the in-between poops, and those are pretty yukky!

Even with the mess, though I prefer the sink to the toilet because it's much easier on my back to hold him standing up rather than me bending over or squatting to hold him over the toilet. We haven't quite gotten the hang of having him sit on the toilet, and he's not fond of the BBLP.

DS's new favorite (and sometimes only lately) potty is the bathtub. I think he likes the sound it makes when he pees (big metal tub + big echoy bathroom = cool sound LOL)

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My mother is fabulous in many ways, but I have a feeling I'll need to be in practice before I try demostrating EC to her. But hey, as long as she changes diapers quickly and is willing to help me do laundry I've got no problems if she doesn't want to try it.

And who knows, maybe in the next couple of years she'll read an article on ECing that totally changes her mind, right? My dh is already on board and we aren't even planning to TTC for another year and a half.

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On diaperfreebaby.org one of the positions shows the mom holding the baby on the toilet while she sits on a stool. I wonder if you could do something like that while still holding him up. Maybe a chair to raise you higher? Just kind of sitting here at my computer mentally picturing holding a baby I think you could probably arrange things so you could brace your arms on your legs. But then again, who has room for a chair in their bathroom? "what's this folding chair doing in here?" "oh, that's my chair for when I potty the baby." " ??" " "

We only use the little potty at night (so we just hold her over the side of the pallet and don't have to go to the bathroom) or if we're in the middle of something. She almost never poops in the potty. Usually it's in the sink when she poops and she's exclusively bf so her poops just rinse right down the drain (hey, they all end up in the same place! ). When we dump her little potty we just dump it in the bathtub (unless she pooped in it, which almost never happens - then we dump in the toilet and then rinse in the tub), rinse it out, and we put a bit of vinegar in the bottom of the potty in case she poops in it before peeing in it (so it doesn't stick). We only empty it out once a day or after a poop. She only poops every few days anyhow When dd was a newborn we just had her go on prefolds (with her laying on the prefold) and gave her the cuing noise as she went. When she would poop I would keep ahead of her by moving the prefold to clean spots while she was pooping. It helped that step-MIL gave us diaper service for 3 months...

SO much easier to wipe after an EC'd poop!!!

love and peace.

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I wash my hands after ecing so either way I am going to have to get up and go to the bathroom.

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I actually remember when I was little the thing I had the worst problem with was stopping what I was doing to go to the bathroom. I always waited until the last minute. It was always a mad dash in those days. I have already started to notice that my 2 month old will hold it until we get up to the potty. Of course she doesnt have anything better to do quite yet. Once she figures out how to use her hands and feet it might all change.....

whats all this about dangeling? my daughter is just as supported when I hold her over the potty as she is on the way there. her head is in the crook of my left elbow, part of her back along my left arm. my left hand holds back her left leg. my right thumb holds back her right leg, while the rest of my right hand supports the rest of her back. Sometimes I put the back of her butt against the toilet seat hopeing that the coolness of it might help trigger her (I have started to notice that that is one of my cues). shes really quite secure this way. I can even take away my right hand when shes done and use it to wipe her. I will admit that I am leaning over while I do this, and it prolly will hurt my back when she weighs more, but for now its ok. Maybe sitting on the edge of the tub would work?

The biggest problem I have with waiting for her is if I really have to go. The other day she didnt go right away so I figured I would go and then give her another chance. Well there she was naked and she heard me go so she went.... all over the bathroom, good thing shes a girl I guess or it coulda been worse.

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You should try to figure out if there's room for both of you.