Advanced Elimination Communication

Advanced Elimination Communication

You've been practicing elimination communication in a limited way for a while and you're ready to take the plunge and get your baby out of diapers completely. Or maybe your baby has sensitive skin that's prone to diaper rash. How do you get there?
The first step is more of a mental step than anything. You have to determine your comfort level with having a bare-bottomed baby who could "go" at anytime anywhere. You will be catching a lot of pees and poops, but you'll still miss some and you need to be OK with that. The main reason babies are diapered is so that the messes are contained and relatively easy to clean up. This means that the baby often sits in the mess for a while and that does seem unfair to the baby. However, if you're good at changing baby right away, that's preferable in the long run to being nervous about baby's elimination. If you're the sort who gets neurotic about every spot, you may not be comfortable with going completely diaperless. You can still do EC with diapers.

You have to consider your home and the ramifications of baby eliminating on the floor, the furniture, or you. There may be limited areas in your home that are easier to clean up than others. The easiest is a lawn-grass yard, which involves no cleanup for pees and limited cleanup for poops. Next is a tile or linoleum floor that only needs to be wiped with a rag. For that kind of floor immediate cleanup is important for a walking baby so he doesn't slip in a puddle of pee. A carpeted floor is harder to clean up but it can be done with a rag and a natural cleaner. Regular mild cleaners work pretty well, though you'll need to use elbow grease for poop. Pet cleaners work well, though they're not the most natural choice. Considering and being prepared for the inevitable cleanup will go a long way towards making you more comfortable. Even if you're going the traditional toddler potty learning route, there will come a point where it's time to take off the diaper.

Once you've accepted the worst case scenario, the next step is to simply take your baby's diaper off and go about your business. It's important to be as relaxed as you would be with the diaper on. If you find yourself getting too nervous, it's time to back off and maybe put the diaper back on. You pay attention to your baby's cues and take him to the potty when he indicates a need to go. Or, you can just take him regularly and see if he goes on cue then. As you keep working with your baby, you will catch more pees and poops and miss fewer. However, it will vary greatly from day to day.

As your baby gets older and learns new skills he will be more distracted and may forget to signal his need to eliminate. Who wants to take the time to go to the bathroom when life is so exciting? You should take those days in stride and keep at it. There may also be times when baby has a potty strike. When that happens, you can back off of EC and use diapers for a few days, then try again. If you like to sign with your older baby, you can teach him a sign for going potty. With a lot of patience and persistence you may be able to have your baby out of diapers early and eliminating in the potty most of the time. It's important to always keep in mind that EC is a journey, and it should be fun for you and your baby. If at any time it's not fun for either one of you, it's best to back off for a while, then try it again when you're both more relaxed

Integrating Elimination Communication

Integrating Elimination Communication

Very few of us are going to end up being die-hard ECers even if we do start out that way because for the most part it isn't very practical considering our highly scheduled modern life. Even so, there are some very good reasons to practice EC on some level with your baby. I believe it's a skill every new parent should acquire and work on.
The first reason is that it facilitates getting a baby out of diapers for a portion of the day. At the very least, you will be occasionally holding your baby over a container for a few minutes, rather than taking off one diaper and immediately putting on another. Even a few minutes of airing out can do a lot of good for baby's skin and help prevent diaper rash that's caused by too much exposure to wet diapers. You'll also be trying to keep baby in a dry diaper as much as possible, which will also help with diaper rash. More likely, you'll be taking the diaper off your baby for longer periods at a time. If your baby does happen to develop a diaper rash, you'll find the best way to deal with it is often to just give the baby lots of bare-bottom time. If you're already practicing EC, you'll be more comfortable with that.

The second reason is that even though you won't be catching every pee or poop your baby makes, your baby will start holding pee longer and therefore when she does pee, it will be higher volume. This will also help baby stay dry in her diaper for longer, and you'll be able to gradually go longer and longer between changes. Overall you'll use fewer diapers, which can make getting around easier. Babies who are ECed will very often develop the ability to stay dry all night most of the time fairly early. You can take them potty in the morning or if you're too late, change their diaper with the knowledge that it got wet recently. Given that cloth diapers can sometimes leak, having a baby who can stay dry all night can be a real bonus.

The third reason is that when it's time for complete potty learning, all you do is ramp up what you've been doing from the beginning. Your child's potty training will become the final stage in the EC journey rather than being this brand new, possibly intimidating, milestone. This can make the potty learning time less formidable for both of you.

Finally, EC is fun. There's nothing like the triumphant feeling you get when baby is clean and dry, you take her to the potty, and she gleefully produces a double whammy. Baby enjoys not having to soak in that even for a second, and you can mentally count up the number of diapers you've saved that day or week. A diaper saved is a diaper earned, right?

Elimination communication is for everyone, not just the committed environmentalists or crunchy mamas. Even conventional parents along with their babies can have fun and benefit from a little EC.

Getting Started with Elimination Communication

Getting Started with Elimination Communication

It is generally believed that little babies have no control over the muscles used in elimination functions. The truth is that a newborn baby does have control over those muscles. Whether baby pees or poops in a diaper or in a container, the baby often does so consciously and deliberately.
An observant and in tune parent can work with her baby on the timing and location of those elimination functions. The result is another way to bond with baby and the use of a few less diapers.

People who practice elimination communication (EC) do so on a number of different levels. You have the people who believe diapers are evil and get their babies completely out of diapers within a few months of birth. On the other end, there are parents who keep their babies in diapers for pretty much as long as is normally expected and they work on elimination communication on a part time basis. It is my belief that most of us will fall into that second category. While it is possible to completely potty train an infant, it is a rather time consuming process and you will have a lot of misses, and therefore messes, along the way.

I want to establish right now that elimination communication is not an all or nothing proposition, and it does not mean you have to dump your diapers. You can successfully practice it part time. Any amount of time spent working with your baby on elimination will benefit both of you and will lay a good foundation for future potty learning. In other words, you have nothing to lose by trying.

You can start working with a baby on potty functions at any time. However, it is easier if you start before the baby is four months old. I'd recommend beginning somewhere around ten days to two weeks after baby's birth. In my experience any earlier is overwhelming, though more die hard ECers say it's best to start with the baby's meconium movement.

In the time that you're not ECing your baby, you're most likely noticing when the baby is wetting and soiling his diaper. Maybe baby pees right after nursing, or poops at ten every morning. A real good time for elimination is first thing after baby wakes up and right after a nap. When you start noticing a pattern over a few days, you can anticipate your baby's elimination and be ready with a container of some sort.

The container can be a small potty, your sink, bathtub or toilet. It can even be a dry diaper. Remove baby's diaper before he goes, hold him over your chosen container and wait. You can hold baby gently by his thighs and allow him to rest on your forearms. When baby eliminates, give him a cue. It can be a "psss" sound or a phrase. You will use the same cue each time you see baby eliminating. At first, you wait until baby eliminates to give him the cue. After a while, you can use the cue to encourage baby to go.

Once you catch one pee or poo, EC can get pretty addicting because it really is a lot of fun. Here are some important points to remember: This should be fun for both you and your baby. If it stops being fun, it's a good idea to take a break for a few days. It's not about catching everything or seeing how quickly you can get baby out of diapers. It's about bonding and learning with your baby. It should never ever be punitive in any way. While some of us may indeed find we can confidently take our baby out of diapers much earlier than what's considered normal, most of us will just steadily EC our babies a little here and there and one day, that ECing will morph into gentle potty learning for our toddler.

More on Elimination Communication

More on Elimination Communication

It's surprisingly easy to start elimination communication (EC) with your baby. It's really a matter of being observant about the times your baby naturally eliminates, then anticipating those times, cuing baby when he goes and catching his offerings. Here are a few more pointers about the process.
Part of getting baby to pee in a container, rather than in his diaper, is to reinforce for him the dry feeling, and how that feels so much better than being wet. This is the part about EC that does take more work. An infant can pee as often as every twenty minutes, and if you're using prefold cloth diapers, it doesn't take much wee to wet the diaper. You won't catch every pee, and that shouldn't even be a goal. But you do want to get baby out of his wet diaper as soon as you can, preferably immediately after baby wets it. You want baby to be dry most of the time, so even during times that you're not trying to get baby to pee in the potty, you want to be checking his diaper at least every half hour and changing it as needed. If you happen to catch baby in the act of wetting his diaper, you should cue him to strengthen his association between your cue and his elimination.

This brings up the question of whether you can successfully EC using disposable diapers or even some of those more high tech cloth diaper systems that try to keep baby feeling dry even when the diaper is wet. You can EC with disposable diapers, but the challenge will be that since wet disposable diapers don't feel wet your baby is less likely to develop a strong connection between peeing in a diaper and being wet or feel much difference between "wet" and "dry." You can still observe baby's elimination functions and work with him on EC when you know he's likely to go.

Once you start ECing your baby, you will tend to find more times that he's likely to go and be able to anticipate those times. You may have gotten started on a pattern of peeing right after nap. But then you noticed baby also likes to pee right after nursing. As you see more patterns, go with them. You can also start trying to encourage baby to go by using your cue. At first, you're merely anticipating what he was going to do anyway. But by using the cue, you create an association for him between your cue and eliminating, and this allows for you to encourage baby to eliminate at times he might not otherwise. Some babies are really sensitive to the association, and others are less so. Still, if you EC baby regularly throughout the day, most babies will begin to hold it at least for a few minutes.

Another thing to note is what your baby does right before he goes. Maybe he squirms or wimpers. Newborns especially seem to get their entire bodies involved in the process of elimination. That can become baby's way of communicating to you that he needs to go, and you can then take him to the potty. Elimination Communication is a journey, not a destination. It's a fun way for you and your baby to communicate about an important function. It's another way for baby to let you know what he needs. You should do it as long as you're both having fun with it and it's enhancing your relationship.

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Your baby can be wearing a diaper for your peace-of-mind (as this may help you to relax), even though they don't always use it.
You offer your baby a potty break at certain key times they are likely to need to go at first, to begin learning together how to do 'Baby Pottying' together. Give it a shot! You'll save a few diapers.

'Diaper-Free' is the destination, not the start of your EC journey, remember that!
Good News! You will use less diapers in time as you discover how to easily fit some 'potty breaks' into your day!

To help you begin, I have a variety of resources built from my own experiences practicing EC with my two babies from birth.

From 100% Diapers to Diaper Free - when YOU and Your Baby or Toddler are ready! Elimination Communication is NOT an 'all-or-nothing' exercise - you can do it a little bit each day.

Potty Training Elimination Communication

Potty Training Elimination Communication

Elizabeth Parise of Concord, Mass., is mother to six, so to say she has her hands full is probably an understatement. But this mom also has found the time and commitment to essentially "potty train" the youngest three children from birth, in a method called Elimination Communication.

"When I first heard about Elimination Communication (EC), my first thought was that it would fit well with my parenting style," Parise says. "I already had three children and I was pregnant with my fourth and had always practiced natural or attachment parenting. I breastfed, co-slept, carried my babies in slings and other carriers, and I thought EC would fit right in. I especially thought it made sense because I breastfed 'on cue,' now I could potty 'on cue,' too. This meant that just like I fed my babies when they showed signs of hunger I also offered the potty when I noticed signs of needing to eliminate."

How Does It Work?

In EC a caregiver simply offers the infant a potty whenever the baby exhibits signs that he or she needs to go to the bathroom. Signs differ for each child but moms and dads closely observe their little ones until they can spot the telltale signals, such as squirming, fussing, passing gas, unexplained crying and a look of concentration.

"As the potty is offered, communication with the caregiver is reinforced and the baby may start to purposely signal the caregiver," Parise says. "As motor ability and independent behavior increases, the baby then takes over toileting."

Baby Sign Language and Elimination Communication - How Do I Introduce a Sign About Pottying?

Baby Sign Language and Elimination Communication - How Do I Introduce a Sign About Pottying?

Baby sign language is an excellent tool for communicating with your pre-verbal infant or toddler.

Even babies under one can enthusiastically recognise simple signs. This enables communication!

A sign for potty time offers your baby a way to tell you they need your help to go to the potty or toilet. Initially it will be recognition of the needs of their body, perhaps as they go, moments before or after.

Sign language is a 'bridge' between our pre-verbal babies and our verbal culture. You are giving them a 'tool' they may use to communicate with you. Our visual memories are older, so babies readily recognise signs as soon as they are able. Around 12 months is common for signing to really pick up, though earlier and later are just as possible. Keep practicing, look for recognition of signs before your baby will use them to 'talk' to you.

Choose an appropriate sign or natural gesture. It should be simple, so your baby can crudely imitate it, and always be used with the spoken word and loving eye contact.

These 3 tips will make it easy for you to sign regularly in your day so that baby sign language and infant pottying are simply integrated and normal parts of your lifestyle.

3 Strategies to Remember When Combining Infant Pottying With Baby Sign Language:

1. Make your chosen sign each time you approach the potty

2. Make your sign whenever your babe is on the potty

3. Use the sign to 'ask' if your babe wants to use their potty- respond to their excitement, respect their reservations.

With these 3 simple strategies you'll be adding baby sign language to your elimination communication (EC) moments with ease. Sometimes your infant will display great awareness and control. They'll sign clearly and in a timely way. Other times they won't - being a little person is busy work!

Expect your practicing of baby sign language and of EC to ebb and flow. Like any natural process there will be flashes of amazing communication, the reason families get hooked on elimination communication.

See this as a wonderful and fleeting sign of the future, not an expectation they'll be toilet independent at a very early age. EC is something you *practice* regularly, part of your lifestyle, rather than a 'method' or results based activity like conventional potty or toilet training.

Give it a go - Baby Sign Language and EC are great partners in helping your child to communicate with you as soon as they are able. You'll gradually reduce your use of diapers or nappies, helping the environment, saving you money and best of all, enjoying a new dimension in the bond you share with your baby.

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Elimination Communication with Your Newborn

Elimination Communication with Your Newborn

Elimination communication (also known as EC, infant pottying, or diaper free) is a process of tuning into your infant’s cues for peeing and pooping, responding in a way that is comfortable and acceptable to you both. For thousands of years, in the absence of diapers, humans have been responding to babies’ cues for elimination.

There are as many ways to communicate as there are babies. Start with these basics for learning elimination communication cues, and come up with your own variations. When you notice your baby peeing or pooping, get in the habit of making cuing sounds like “pshh, pshh” or “poo poo.” This will serve you well later when you start offering the potty.

Naked Time
Have you ever witnessed the joy a wiggly newborn feels at being diaper free? Dispensing with clothes helps caregivers, too. You learn immediately when your baby goes, and clean-up is quick and simple with no re-dressing. Simply keep your baby on a prefold diaper or old receiving blanket, wiping and swapping layers as necessary. Boys may need an extra layer on top. You can do this in cold weather, too – just keep your baby wrapped in a blanket.

Keep your baby naked on a prefold next to you in bed to help with nighttime EC. Use a waterproof pad to protect the bed.

Fitted Cloth Diapers
If you want a little less potential for mess, try a fitted cloth diaper without a waterproof cover. In addition to knowing the instant your child wets, you’ll get so good at it that you’ll feel the flush of warmth just before the urine soaks through, thereby avoiding messes on your own clothes.

Infant Gown Conversion
For the warmth of clothes with ease of clean-up, cut your infant gowns in two, creating shirt/skirt sets when you invert the bottom half. You won’t have to bother your baby by changing the top, and nothing is easier to change after a wet-through than those cute bottoms. Once you’re good at infant pottying, you may not even need a fitted diaper underneath. Have fun mixing and matching!

Once you have spent time with your baby and gotten to know her cues, you can try supporting her on an infant potty or holding her in position over a container, making your cuing sounds. Look for these common cues:

Pulling off the breast during a nursing session
Grunting
“The Look” – You’ll know this with practice. It’s a very direct, straight in the eyes gaze that is subtly different from other interaction.
Fussiness at the breast or other unexplained fussiness
Some babies take to the potty right away, while others may take a month or two. If your baby dislikes being supported over a potty or container, simply keep catching on cloth and try again later, experimenting with different elimination communication positions. Once he is ready, you’ll know everything you need to know to offer the potty at the right time.


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Elimination Communication method Training is a Process

Elimination Communication method Training is a Process

Many children are in daycare these days, it has been reported that children between the ages of birth and 6 years are in daycare this is about 61% of the population, so it is important when potty training that parent work closely with their children. When your child is ready for potty training you will need to get the right potty supplies, reading books and getting the correct supplies will help in the process. Many people say the sign of readiness is when your child learns how to peddle; once they know how to peddle they are ready for potty training. This of course means that you will have to start using public restrooms. Both parents need to help with the training; it can not be only one parent handling the burden of potty training. Some family situations are unique, for example many parents share custody, and this sometimes creates a problem when trying to potty train. Once you start potty training you cannot go back, if you try you are sending mixed messages to your child. You will need to be patient with your child, this is completely new to them and there will be accidents during the process. If you start to yell or get angry towards your child your child will again have mixed messages.

Your toddler is now in control and accepting that will eliminate the battle. Let your toddler observe how to go to the bathroom, the best method of learning is through viewing others. Some parents like to o bribe their toddler with a small container of candies in the bathroom. Many parents carry a portable potty around with them, so no matter where you are you can have your child go to the potty. Another helpful tip is to put a plastic liner on their beds so the urine does not flow to the mattress.

There are many simple techniques you can use when trying to potty train, follow them and it will lay the groundwork and make it much easier. Some parents may find obstacles in the process of potty training their children.

Before you start make sure your child is showing signs that they are ready, does not like the feel of going in their pants, want big kid pants, these are the signs to look for. First, you must make sure your child is even ready for this step. When potty training parents try all different types of techniques, some good some bad, but when they don’t work parents get frustrated, and with the cost of diapers or pull-ups so high you see why they are so desperate to get their child potty trained. Many parents have successfully Elimination Communication method potty trained their children using a potty training doll.

Children begin the process by showing they are ready to go the potty and after a period of time they are trained and it seems like the training period never happened. Potty training fears, often called toilet terrors, are common among toddlers and small children. Using the toilet for bowel movements can be difficult for a toddler to understand, as well as scary and undesirable.

For you child to become dry and trained they need to come to the realization to recognize the he/she needs to go potty without making in their pants. Over time your child’s accidents will become fewer and before you know it your childe will be completely Elimination Communication method potty trained.

Elimination Communication Training Made Easy

Elimination Communication Potty Training Made Easy

How to Elimination Communication potty train the child is the biggest question that most of parents face. This is because changing the habit of the child from nappies to using a potty is something very difficult. The parents are mainly worried about the amount of time they will take to potty train. But it totally depends upon the child, some may take few days and some may take a year too. You and your child can be successful in potty training if you are aware of the fundamentals of training, so that the process becomes easy for you.

The question how to potty train can be overcome by following a few steps.

The first step towards Elimination Communication potty training is to notice whether your child is physically and emotionally prepared for the training. Watch out for the signs like child imitating other’s bathroom habits. Do not force your child for anything unless and until he/she is ready.

To start with the training you need to have a good potty chair for your child with which you can train the child. The potty chair that you select must be a comfortable one so that he can easily fit his feet. You can also use the explanatory book or video provided by the seller of the potty chair, to grab your child interest.

It is very important for you to maintain a proper routine for the baby. This will help the child to get use to it. If he/she does not show the interest in the potty it’s better to stop the Elimination Communication potty training for few days, weeks or months.

Sit your child without nappy on the potty seat. Notice the reaction and feeling when the child is sitting there. This is when you will make your child understand that what your parents do every day and make the child realize that he/she is grown up. When he/she goes in the nappy, you should take him to the potty, make him sit near you and empty the nappy in the potty bowl. This will help him to make connection. And then show to flush it off and this all will help him to understand the whole process. Do not forget to teach him to dress himself/herself and wash the hands one’s done with it.

After this it is very important that you encourage your child use the potty whenever he/she feels the urge to go. It is advisable that you bring attractive and fascinating pants for your child during the training process so that you do not make use of nappy. Your child may go through some accidents before completely trained. Your child may take few more days for the night time potty training. The body of the child is actually immature to wake him up in the middle of the night and so you must not allow him/ her to drink too much before going to bed. You can even tell the child to let you know whenever he feels like going. In this way you can successfully potty train your child.

Elimination Communication: Woman Teaching Moms How to Go Diaper-Free

Elimination Communication: Woman Teaching Moms How to Go Diaper-Free

A journey through Tibet and China captured Willow Moon s attention, not only the landscape but also for practices of children to education, which makes little sense for them to do.
E 'touching to see how parents and children were bound, said Moon. Even the children were able to communicate with their parents if they are exceeded, and the parents were very accommodating.
Moon teaches hour "Elimination communication Birthways Studio in Berkeley, mothers and fathers are guided through the stages of learning of children s instructions for their disposal.
All animals are unable to urinate or defecate on themselves and human children are different, said Moon. You know, born again as . This isn' t wear them to keep it. It s our attention to their natural instincts.
Thirty-five states now have support for parents who want to increase their diapers for free. The motivation depends on those who have a relationship again, environmental concerns, to save money.
The average child is $ 2,000 to $ 3,000 worth of diapers before using the toilet training was completed.
As hard as it may seem, parents do without diapers, "said Luna, who is less work for the longer term.
N re encouraged to give attention to their instincts, physical education, instead of ignoring the concept, to introduce them again later during the potty, said Moon.

Elimination Communication Method: Baby Wearing

Elimination Communication Method: Baby Wearing

Elimination communication is the method of caring for a child with the times, intuition, signs and signals, applied in order to avoid the use of layers. Disposal methods of communication requires close interaction between a mother and a provider of childcare. EC is applicable to all ages and also for premature babies Potty Training.
Most of the mothers at home or at work have trouble walking as a layer-free for their children. Using layers of cost and waste after use, very dangerous for the environment. Method of elimination communication (EC) is the best way to start your children to a new level of interaction.
Elimination Communication (EC) successfully sync signals that take place to identify and intuition.

A mother needs to pay attention to the times when the natural elimination. This should be easy for the babies, because they tend to urinate every 10-20 minutes. Calendar for older children are different from the last to eat and sleep.
While signals to distinguish a child, health workers and mothers should watch their facial expressions, writhes, screams, noises, among other signals that children tend to act immediately, as potty.

A caregiver / parent may also cueing or makes sounds when the child needs to urinate in a specific location. Cueing should always be used for a child in a pot is the right place.
Intuition simply the thought of a parent or an assistant who needs the child to be removed. Mothers should know better.

Elimination communication is a good way to get a diaper without too much. This method requires a smooth transition and patience, though. Sofas are good for the baby's skin after the waste trapped for hours in it. This method keeps your child free from a rash and a skin infection.

Elimination Communication Method

Elimination Communication Method

The elimination of communication: CE-short is: a form of communication with the child should have his disposal.
They know how to tell if your baby is hungry or tired - they cry or move, or an act of warning. They also have ways of saying that they need to do a little poo, because it is innate in children, does not want to dirty nid . When my child, who has acted, I took the jar and made a noise that soon they related to the race.
Our experience with the EC --
How to make your own VPPS: system extremely portable pot
A sample of my discussions of the EC, with a child

How to start?

In terms of how you're going to start with this - remember when you were a baby care, and the agitation and the twist and pop in and out of the womb? This is probably because they have to do a little poo and the experience that I had not t even they were expected to enter the level. You know, when people say - oh, I know that 2 or 3 years to do that is to be a baby poop, so I won t change diapers, and are not ... or, if you say - oh, it This is a poo, look at the attitude of the face or anything ... This child of physical or EC or IPT, is the child an opportunity) for their business or not a plate or a cup, which indicates a sound signal (many people use sssss . The children learn quickly, when he stood up in the toilet and release the audio cue.

What you need

One of the beauties of elimination communication is that no longer need a large number of stuff . In a minimal level, everything that you need a baby and a decent minimum level of willingness to work with your child to learn!
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Slings
If you bring your baby in a strip or foil, you are very close and is much easier to pick up stories just the wind or your child, suggesting that the possibility of a vase of May be required. This method makes use of a child s congenital aversion to the bottom of the nest .
The best support for the EC are the ones that make it easy, the child comes out and then make another pop complications or dislocation. For these reasons, I do not upholstered) ring sling and a loop of pipe (or in a bag. I could t live without my spinning!

Potty

I have a simple form pan, which always seemed to change their position around the house. Receiving no danger of disappearing as a throne-pot for the use of CE with a child - the child in the hole!
Potty bowls are designed for use with a newborn child and girls until about 9 months (even though my nephew was still) with a fantastic 18 months. The boys tend to exceed the diameter of the anterior capsule. You can keep the cup between her knees and support the child in the basin.

Pants

Training pants are very useful for the child active - that pottying quickly and easily. It is not necessary for the child chooses to remove and replace a rash. They are absorbent enough to hold an initial incident, easy to clean and dry.
I recommend changing diapers or cloth diapers as soon as possible, especially at home. Most people who move to say that they would have done before!

Baby leg warmer, pants split, etc.

Many people find a good way to keep warm boots for short legs in cold weather. Another use is very important for them is to cover the gap between socks and shoes and pants horse when the child is in a sling.

Potty Training Your Child

Potty Training Your Child

Potty training your child could be a big challenge, especially if it is your firstborn. You may be a little nervous wondering if you are doing everything correctly to ensure the process goes as smoothly as possible. Potty training is a natural part of a child's development and can be made easier just by understanding factors that indicate your child is ready to begin learning the task.

One important thing to stay away from is thinking that potty training has to take place at a specific age. Children develop different skills at different ages and every child is unique. Therefore you can not expect your child to lean how to potty train at the same age your best friend's child learned. Instead be patient and understanding.

Trying to potty train a child before they are ready could results in many setbacks. If the child does not understand what is happening and why you are taking them into the bathroom they may become discouraged and even afraid of the bathroom. This could add to the length of time it takes your child to learn how to use the potty. Therefore, you need to wait until your child is old enough to understand just what using the potty means.

This would include things like knowing when your child is beginning to have better control over their bladder because they or staying dry more often. Also, when they show signs that they do not like having their pants wet or soiled then you can feel sure they are beginning to understand and its time to start potty training. They should also be coordinated enough to be able to pull their pants up and down. After all, if they cannot perform this task it would be difficult to use the potty and may begin to discourage them. You can help in this area by providing clothing that is easier for the child to remove.

Children are very curious and love to watch what you do, by allowing them to observe you in the bathroom they will begin to understand and want to imitate this action. Have a potty chair ready for your child and explain to them what it is and how to use it. Keeping a light on in the bathroom can also help considering most light switches are too high for a child to reach. If they are spending too much time trying to get the light on then it may be too late to use the potty. One of the most important steps in potty training your child would be to never yell at them for accidents and always let them know you are proud of them.

Potty Training Facts

Potty Training Facts

Potty training, toilet training, toilet teaching or toilet learning are names frequently used to describe how kids learn to use the bathroom independently.

Children who are potty training or ready to potty train will:

· Walk to the potty and undress
· Consistently keep underwear clean and dry during the day and/or night
· Recognise the need to go to the potty and let you know or goes by self
· Use the potty-chair or toilet by himself or herself.

Children will potty train at different rates and stages:

· Detours in potty training come with the territory and should not be taken as a sign of failure.
· Physical and mental developments play a large role in potty training success.
· By using training pants in your training approach will help to make it a positive and rewarding experience.

Facts to keep in mind:

Girls usually complete training at a younger age than boys and generally start earlier than boys. The time-spent training does not change in most cases. 80 percent of boys and girls are completely trained by age 3-1/2. There is light at the end of the tunnel.

Potty training takes an average of eight months but will vary from child to child. One child can take one month; another might take up to a year or more. There are kid trackers online that you can use to determine if you child is where they should be in their progress.

Potty chairs are best for most kids, but a potty seat for the big toilet can work with a little assistance and a step stool.

Before your child has started potty training, start thinking about a reward system that will work for both you and your child. Keep it simple and easy to stick with such as a sticker on the chart for sitting on the potty!

Creative Potty Training

Creative Potty Training

When I was potty training my two young boys, I discovered this method of potty training that made it an enjoyable, yet very effective way to potty train toddlers.

First, make sure your child is ready for potty training, shows interest, wants "big kids pants" etc. If they show no signs of readiness, it may be best to let them mature a bit more.

Make this a game, make it fun and you will not run into stubborn opposition (after all it is the child's body). Go out and buy or find around the house items you don't normally let your child play with. Some examples might be toys that can be used in water (3 or 4 things), like little plastic pitchers, balls, tiny cups, whatever, but make them SPECIAL. The only real rule to this game is these special "potty" toys can only be played with while the child is sitting on the potty! This is very important; no breaking this one rule, or it won't work.

Once the child is sitting on the potty fill a large bowl or small bucket with lukewarm or tepid water, place the new "potty" toys in the bowl and set the bowl of water in front of the child. On the floor if the potty seat is low, or if it's a potty seat that sits on top of the regular toilet, set the bowl of water on a TV tray or something that provides a step, in front of the child. When the child places his/her hands in the lukewarm water to play with the toys, if the child needs to physically go, they nearly instantly go potty (it's almost an instinctive type of physical reaction), then cheer, cheer, cheer! Give lots of praise, and if you wish to give some type of a treat, go ahead.

Let them play as long as they want, as long as they sit on the potty. When they are done playing, put the toys away for next time. This is really great because it makes it fun for them so they cooperate, it totally ends all power struggles, and also no more waiting and waiting for them to go only to have them go potty as soon as the diaper goes back on. They also feel good because they have immediate success. Potty training no. 2 was more difficult I found, that just came with some time and patience and them learning in their own space and way, relax, it will happen.

Do you want to know how I get this idea? It's kind of a funny thing, my husband used to be in the military and when he was young in boot camp they used to always play jokes on each other in the night by dipping the hand of someone who was sleeping, into a pan of lukewarm water, thus making the person wet the bed. It just seemed like a natural progression to use this trick for good use in the potty training area and it worked great

Potty Training Dolls – Are They Useful Potty Training Your Child?

Potty Training Dolls – Are They Useful Potty Training Your Child?

Potty training dolls are advertised as the latest and greatest tool to help your child learn how to use the potty. These special dolls can be a good tool to help your child understand what potty training is all about, but are they really necessary? This will in part depend on both you and your child. Before you decide, read on to find out what potty training dolls are, how they are used and in what case they can be helpful in toilet training your little one.

A potty training doll is a special doll that can drink and then pee. It usually comes with its own little potty chair and some training pants. The doll also has a little zippy cup or bottle to drink out of. After the doll drinks, the water will come out the other end, preferably while the doll sits on the potty chair.

That all sounds well, but how can this toy help you toilet train your toddler? When you child is starting to show interest in using the potty, you give him the doll and explain how big kids use the potty instead of using a diaper. Start by letting your child feed the doll the water, and have him set the doll on the potty. Then the two of you can watch the doll tinkle.

The next step is to ask your child if he would like to pee in the potty, just like the doll is doing. After he has practiced with the doll a few times, sitting on a potty and tinkling in it doesn’t seem quite a scary and he’ll be ready to give it a try. This can happen as quickly as after the first time you used the potty training doll, or take a few days. Just keep trying and do your best to at least have your child sit on his potty next to the doll. Sooner or later he’ll get it and tinkle right alongside the doll.

The final question is: Do you really need a potty training doll? A lot of toddlers are interested enough in using the potty that they do not need a potty training doll. But if your little one seems a little afraid or just isn’t very interested in using the potty, a potty training doll can be a useful tool. In those cases, getting a potty training doll is a worthwhile investment and can make the process of toilet training your child much faster and easier.

Potty Training-a Simple 4 Step Formula For Initiating Toilet Training

Potty Training-a Simple 4 Step Formula For Initiating Toilet Training

“I’m so done with diapers!” groans a mother as she looks at the high price tag on the jumbo pack of diapers. “Is it time for my child to start potty training?”

Potty training is a big milestone for children. But how do parents know when to start? Intuition, expectations, common sense and observation play key roles in initiating potty training.

Step #1-Create a Parent/Child Team

Potty training is a combined effort between parent and child. Some parents may assume that they are in charge, while other parents place the child at the helm. In actuality, potty training is a partnership. Parents provide support, potty training tools, books, and dry clothing; children do the “going.”

Grasping the concept that potty training is a team effort between parent and child, and not a command and control situation, is critical to success. Strict, impatient pursuit of the goal puts undo pressure on the child, resulting in stress, anxiety and in some cases delayed potty training.

Step#2-Starting early doesn’t ensure quick results

In depth research on intensive potty training has proven that initiating the process early is in fact correlated to extended duration of potty training. Those parents who start training prematurely find that the potty training process lasts longer.

Children must develop bladder and muscle control before they are able to control toileting. Parents may adhere to this rough timeline of readiness: 15-18 months the child senses that his or her clothes are wet; 18 months the child may urinate on the potty if placed on it; 2- 2 1/2 years the child might alert the parent that he has to go; and 3-4 years the child may have the ability to “hold it” and visit the bathroom alone.

Step#3-Determine readiness by child’s development

When deciding to begin the potty training process, chronological age may not be the correct indicator for readiness. The parent should look for signs that the child is developmentally ready. This is especially true for babies who were born prematurely and children who are developmentally delayed.

Some good signs of readiness are: child can sit and walk well, child can stay dry for 2 hours or more, child is interested in doing what big kids or grownups do, child is able to follow and execute simple instructions, and child seems to understand what the potty is for and uses words relating to using the toilet.

Parents should assess the temperament of the child. Important questions to ask are: is the child able to focus, what is her attention span, does the child frustrate easily, is the child easily angered or discouraged.

For most children potty training occurs between 2 and 3 years, with the majority of children potty trained by 4.

Step#4-Go on now, go!

Today is the day! Parents should make sure that the child is in good health, and that the household is calm with no impending turmoil such as a move coming up, a new baby being brought home, or a parent going away on a trip.

Dress the child in easy to remove clothing like sweat pants with an elastic waist. Snaps, buttons and zippers are difficult for little hands and time consuming to manipulate when the urge arises. To reduce the pressure on the child, allow him to stay in diapers during the early days of potty training. Gradually transition him into underwear for short amounts of time as his dry times become more and more extended.

After a meal, nap, or when coming in from outdoors are good times to encourage the child to hop on the potty. Parents should be on the look out for indicators of when the child may have the urge to go.

Accompany the child to the potty and stay with him. The visit to the bathroom should be short and sweet; five minutes is plenty of time. Offer reading material, or use a fun potty training tool or toy to make the five minutes engaging. Important: if the child wants to get off of the potty before five minutes, don’t force him to stay.

Praise, praise, praise! Little milestones deserve lots of hugs and kisses. It is really something for a little tyke to hop on the potty by herself, pull up her own pants, or make it into the bathroom (even if only to be a little late.) Be kind, patient, sensitive and proud. Don’t scold the child for having accidents, ever.

Night Time Potty Training - Easy Method

Night Time Potty Training - Easy Method

Introducing night time potty training to your child can both benefit you and your child. Night time potty training will keep your child dry until the morning, making him free from diaper rash. By training your child to use the toilet or pee before bedtime, you are also helping your child let go of using diapers at the earliest time possible.

As much as possible, parents should limit the intake of your child of any liquids one hour before bedtime. But, of course, if your child is very thirsty, you have to give him something or else your child will wake up being dehydrated.

You have to practice your child of using the potty training toilet seat before letting him or her sleep. Do not put him to bed if he has not finished doing his toilet deeds.

Let him continue on wearing a diaper while asleep for the first few days of his night time potty training. You do not want your child to end up wet in bed or your linens soaked in your child's pee or poop. Allow him to get used of your potty training toilet seat before letting go of his diapers.

Be patient and understanding with your child. Remember that sometimes accidents do happen even though you have already introduced your night time potty training regimen to your child. Praise your child if they succeed in your training. If not, instil to him the proper way of doing it successfully.

Of course, there are times that kids can not control their bladder activities. But, do not give up and lose hope. Someday your child will eventually learn your night time potty training method and let go of wearing diapers.

Potty Training in 1 to 3 Days

Potty Training in 1 to 3 Days

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If you have tried potty training your toddler, you are probably feeling exhausted and demoralized as your child battles with you and struggles to catch on to the idea. You are probably wondering why it is so difficult! Does this sounds familiar to you? Well, you're not alone.

Many other parents starting out with potty training will be feeling exactly the same pains and frustrations. I know what you are going through. You see, my wife and i were going through this too with our first son. But then i started studying the subject extensively for an answer to our problems in potty training. I was sure that one could reach a simple solution to potty training, once you have a proven system to follow.

After reviewing the literature and consulting extensively with many specialists, quite frankly i was shocked at what i discovered.

Baby Pottying or Elimination Communication - 3 Easy Ways to Reduce Your Baby's Nappy Use Naturally

Baby Pottying or Elimination Communication Reduce Your Baby's Nappy Use Naturally

Communicating about elimination is a fun way to save money on nappies as we get to know new things about our babies. By adding a potty break into transitions in your day, you can reduce your use of nappies, even though your baby is wearing them full-time.

Baby Pottying is commonly known as Elimination Communication (EC). Yes, you can do it part-time. That's what everyone does, really. To 'ease into EC' you need to be calm, relaxed and willing to have some enjoyable time with your baby nappy-free! As you discover how to turn on your EC senses, your confidence will grow, you will be able to know your baby's needs more and more, and be able to help them.

Here's the first 3 things you can do to turn on your EC senses:

1. Have a potty break when you have the water running for your baby's bath.

2. Each time you change your baby's nappy, offer a potty break.

3. When you check baby's nappy and find it dry, offer a potty break.

Easy! These are natural transitions in your day - no extra effort is involved, yet you can enter a whole new dimension of understanding of your baby with these simple ideas...

Remember- have no expectations that your baby should wee, you are merely introducing the potty so that it is a familiar object. Sitting on the potty is an invitation to use it, never a requirement! Warm the potty and help your baby on so that it is a fun place to be. Discover more about this ancient practice at Part Time Nappy Free.

You can see how simple it is to reduce your nappy use gradually and naturally with some baby pottying moments. Each time they do a wee in the potty, have a cheer - together you've saved another nappy change, saved money and washing, prevented waste and best of all connected with your baby - see how they respond - it is very exciting indeed!

Baby Pottying - it is the leading edge in environmentally sustainable nappy practices.

Combined with any sort of nappy use - either disposable or modern cloth, will reduce your overall use of nappies as the nappy stays drier longer, also reducing the risk of nappy rash.

The Ultimate Green Baby - Discover 3 Key Ideas About Elimination Communication Or Baby Potty Training

The Ultimate Green Baby - Discover 3 Key Ideas About Elimination Communication Or Baby Potty Training

The Ultimate Baby Green is someone who is not "use" of diapers they wear!
Elimination Communication is a fun way to connect with your baby every day, gradually reducing the number of diapers they use when the family is also environmentally friendly!
By offering a simple breaks can reduce the waste of your baby or wash load (or both), minimize the environmental footprint of your baby.

Families around the world and throughout time, these friendly way to help your baby dry and clean as they can do (yes, not all the time), and more importantly, they have a pre-verbal communication with her little baby used to understand the world that window open - this is why people get addicted when they take the plunge and have a go!

3 Basic ideas for Children's Potty Training. These tips will help you understand the EC:
1. As part time diaper free diaper or to communicate with your baby, not the beginning of toilet training. Again - not early toilet training - this is something else. EC is the relationship between mother and baby / toddler, develop their relations in the new areas of understanding.

2. Yes, the EC practice may mean that your child's independence have been met, but that is not given, since the EU is a personal journey - and many things in life happen "and the fuzz about this trip. Approximately two is usually when the average EC infants achieve better communication, but few are daily diapers often long before.

3. Meanwhile, will probably be much less nappies / diapers, than if you use diapers full-time, which is great for your budget, the environment and your washing machine load. Think of it as a reduction of any waste or washing your baby that is a reasonable idea, whether a diaper or less consider themselves "Part Time Diaper Free".

Since each variant, of course, if you are not interested - not! People practice the EC connection with their babies, not a race to independence, not a way to be better - it is simply better for them.

Perhaps a wonderful discovery for your family? It is easy to give it a go if your baby has diaper between potty visits. There is no meaning to "mess" anywhere. The baby will go in their diapers, and usually when you forget their needs or otherwise engaged at the moment.

EC is a flexible option, one day sequence, full time you can baby the "opportunity" for the baby too trivial to help them stay informed and aware of the use of pot. Your "default" is a diaper, so if you're lost and all Mamas!

Reduce Risk of Diaper Rash - Elimination Communication Will Minimize the Time Your Baby Wears Diapers

Reduce Risk of Diaper Rash - Elimination Communication Will Minimize the Time Your Baby Wears Diapers

Experience old world practice removal of the communication (EC) and apply it to your modern life. Part-time, with diapers between potty visits.

EC, or Infant Potty Training, or 'Baby Pottying' is a comprehensive and cooperative manner for you and your child will gradually and carefully reduce the amount of time your child is continuing in its infancy. I is defined on a daily basis, but often children are experiencing the use of pot from an early age, also became an independent toilet earlier.

Less time means less risk of diaper diaper rash. Imagine that every child has little diapers every day?

Unlike early Toilet Training, the EC on the relationship and communication between you and your child, and usually begins in childhood, before the child becomes mobile as it was easier when a child is less dependent on diapers.

Developing your Diaper-Free Confidence Every day you open the door to:

1st Your child has less time to waste in the vicinity of their skin automatically reduces the risk of rash, because there is less risk of waste - ammonia and urea.

2nd Your child is less exposure to chemicals in disposable diapers, wipes and medicines that children's skin can be sensitive to.

3rd A detailed overview of how what your child she can digest them. Practicing EC speck, then you insight into what otherwise could cause or contribute to Diaper Rash, so you can eliminate those factors.

4th Increased confidence in yourself to realize the health needs of your child in a more natural way.

5th Finding trusted gradual transition to less use of diapers in the alternative to conventional potty or toilet training.

The simple goal is to strive to use only a small diapers every day. For three years, Diapering, which is common in these days, which means less massive 1000 diapers go into landfills, or you wash and dry!

I heard you say, 'little diapers? It's scary, we can do it! "

You're right. One of them is easy. Except one, to return the next day. Is an easy way to start practicing child pottying gradually, in a simple manner. Part-time EC Diaper Rash is a useful resource to learn more about using a small diaper day.

With a few simple skills within the Community, you skip the diapers today, tomorrow another, maybe a few days after. Some days you must use the regular amount. But all in all, the potty break only for diaper changes, some of the diapers your child stays dry for longer bear, so they can wear longer, reducing the overall number.

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Elimination Communication is Enjoyed by All Types of Family

Elimination Communication is Enjoyed by All Types of Family

Baby Pottying Edge in environmentally sustainable practices Diapering.

With the current real concern for our planet, families around the world returns to the idea of gradually reducing baby-related waste that occurs naturally when you are practicing Elimination Communication. It is combined with diapers - all kinds, and any modern or traditional cloth nappies for good communication in order to reduce the amount of diapers should be washed or disposed of in landfills.

You can get tips on Potty training infants from reading real life stories of the EC experts - mothers and their children who are or formerly EC success. Learn from your children ...

5 Lifestyle Benefits Families Practicing Elimination Communication Enjoy:

1. A holistic approach to health care for children part nappy free time is a lifestyle, not a "method".

2nd Teamwork within the family to help the child be kept clean and dry.

3rd Traveling light - less need for diapers, extra socks and underwear in the car or in your bag, a bag of wet things, they know where are the toilets.

4th do not need to use a wonky looking, dirty appearance changing table in a stupid pattern places where they do not want to ...

5th Maximum flexibility and adaptability ... diaper use, incidentally, as a tool.

Part time, moderation, flexibility, relaxed, easy, of course .. all these words describe your ideal attitude to infant potty training or eliminate services. Part-time EC is an online resource for exploring this ancient way of connecting with your child to manage their health needs in a way that has low environmental impact.

Find your way with confidence, looking at the stories of families practicing EC from New Zealand to Norway, you will find a strategy that reflects your lifestyle, for sure! Think of the EP as an ancient dance of communication - a wonderful form of interaction between you and your child. You try to help the child understand his body and to help them keep clean and dry as best you can.

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elimination communication method

elimination communication method

I'm doing this for years, and it is really effective and simple. Frankly, I had no idea that my children's education and PEE method called poo End Communication method. Everything I thought it is only part of helping a parent, your children are diaper free, as they age.

My daughter Nathalie go diaper-free MOS the 11th century old, and Miguel at the age of 1 1 / 2. My husband and I asked them to ask me or her yaya when they think similar to the nature of the request. Course through education and our youth, we went through many weeeh and waah ... and it's OK, at least, we must learn and the children.

End Communication is the beginning of Infant Potty Training Methods, the children go diaper-free as possible. Elimination Communication is a term invented by Ingrid BAUER and was used in 2001 that "Diaper Free! The gentle wisdom of Natural Infant Hygiene Book" for.

Elimination Communication is a concept used in Third World countries, where mothers are rarely used to use diapers on their children, but instead time, signals, cueing and intuition to know to know when their children must go to the bathroom. Allow adapting this method diaperless child with zero "accidents".

Elimination Communication Positions

Elimination Communication Positions

You can choose any location that works for you and your child. I will describe some of the most common position in this article. Choose one or choose to use one that works only for you and your son!

Rocking Hold: The position easier for you to keep the child in a matter "pressing". In this position takes the baby to her chest. Put one hand under the thigh and hold it firmly with your legs apart slightly.
You are basically holding their baby in a supported squat. He feels comfortable and safe, because his back firmly against the chest and arms, holding her.

This squat, which makes it easy for your child to remove effortlessly.

You can use your finger to "shoot" your child's penis in a pan or bowl you use for him. You can also corner the child slightly forward to avoid splashing.

Hold Cradling Variations: You can vary this cradle hold in many respects. You can use his authority and taking the baby in a sink or outside. You can sit with your child on the toilet seat (via scoot backward, or on both sides of the back seat). You can also sit with a cup in her lap.
Knees can be in this position with feet shoulder-width apart or slightly more than squat, you can yourself. This is ideal for outdoor pottying. You can also sit on the side opposite the toilet, while holding the child on his potty.

You can also change the position with a small child, holding it over with one hand, as if you are going to feed them. This allows you to give even more security.

He is also a valid position to feed the baby, if you expect to defecate, while its power. You can place over a small bowl or jar open prefold diaper to catch the stool.

Lying infants can use the HoldSmall underlying behavior. This is similar to pressing the foot, but you let the child lie on his forearm. You have consistently support under the knees. His body just lying along the forearm.
Changing this situation is used in many traditional cultures. The mother, lying on his feet to the bottom rests at his feet. With legs slightly apart makes it a convenient location for the cleaning of the child. It works well outdoors.

Baby sitting and leaning forward: In this position you sit on a chair or some other raised surface (eg, bed). You lean forward and reduce the child up to liquidation. This method works well if you are out of it.
E 'is also ideal for night use. You could have a wide shallow bowl on the edge of the bed. At night you can just sit down and bending over the child's potty bowl, then lift him up and the nurse to sleep.

Children under the arm when the child more than you want to try "to reach" Hold. It 'nice to have a place, if you need to have your other hand free to tend a child.
Just tuck your baby under one arm, supporting the knees under the hand and forearm. You can angle your child in any way you like, and you have a free hand to wipe the baby when he did.

Crouching Baby: a stable child with good head and body, the control can squat in a pot. You can place your child's feet on the edge of the toilet, and keep it on hand, while he squats over a bowl to eliminate. Currently I'm using this position with my 1 year - this is his preferred position. It can also help the child to lie down on the road.

Standing Baby: good location for the adult son. Your little chance to stand on the edge of the bathtub or large sink and toilet. This works particularly well if the child can see himself in the mirror when it comes out ... as an interesting experience!

Position of legs: I have already spoken giving the child are on the feet. But there are several other positions of the feet. Adult child can sit up when you sit on a chair. Just keep your foot a bit 'open and is firmly on the ground. Bowl between the thighs catches pee. '
Other traditional position of the leg with his legs in the position of the child. You sit on the floor, knees bent and heels on the floor. Spread your feet slightly apart and put the baby to her, with the hind legs. This creates an ideal place for a child, and good opportunities for outdoor use.

In a pot: You can support your child on the potty in a number of ways. If you want to start using the pot early, you can start with a pot in her lap. Keep the child in the same position, a company usually do, eat only on the potty.
You can move to have a pot on the floor (or against) and supporting a child when they use there. Will not be long before your child can sit naked in the bathroom, but he can still help your desire for a lot 'of time.

There are many different positions, you can choose. And, of course, you can always do your Up! Be flexible and find out what positions work best for you and your child. May change over time and as the child grows. It will always be an adventure!

Elimination Communication Potty Talk

Elimination Communication Potty Talk

When I first heard about Elimination Communication, my second child was about 8 months old. The concept intrigued me. I knew that women around the world did not use diapers, and though they wore their babies on their bodies, they didn't get wet on. They simply tuned in to their baby's cues and at the right time, held baby out over a bush and let nature take its course. I decided to try it with my son. I was tickled pink when I sat him on a little potty and he went, right on cue. It's like he knew exactly what to do.

The party line of modern child rearing experts is that baby has no control over his sphincter muscles until around 18 months, but I didn't believe that. I noticed with my kids that they would wake up dry every morning from the time they were around 7 months old or so (and I use cloth diapers so I knew the diaper was dry). Besides, babies all over the world don't read books by American parenting experts!

My "EC babies", at 9 months of age, used the potty for almost all of their eliminations. They rarely wore diapers (only when we went out, sometimes not even then) and instead wore either training pants or little underwear. Early potty training (as young as 15- 24 months) is a side effect of EC but it's not really the goal. The goal is communication. If you put diapers on the baby from the time he is newborn, he's effectively being trained to "go" in a diaper. He's being "diaper trained."

EC babies do have accidents. Sometimes, during a developmental leap (crawling, walking), babies take a break from cueing their parents when they need to go. They're just too busy to be bothered.

But since they don't become accustomed to the feel of waste on their skin, finishing to potty independence is easy. They don't really have to be trained as toddlers because they already prefer the potty. It's not scary, neither do they have to be coerced, bribed, etc as often happens with conventionally trained toddlers.

Elimination Communication is just another option for parents. The thing I love about it is that it proves that babies are so much smarter than we give them credit for. Just as it was fascinating and almost unbelievable the first time you saw a baby signing to its parents (whether that baby was yours or someone else's), it's also really cool to see a baby clearly communicating their elimination needs. For example, when my youngest baby is playing happily on the floor, then crawls up to me quickly and starts fussing, I sit her on the potty and she poops. Instead of struggling with an unhappy, squirmy baby during diaper changes, her needs are met in a more hygienic way, quickly and easily, with respect for her dignity.

For those who are interested in learning more, a non profit organization called DiaperFreeBaby.org has appeared on the scene to give information and support. There is also a wonderful book called Diaper Free! by Ingrid Bauer that tells you how to get started with the practice, stories from parents and practical tips.

Now regarding potty talk, if anyone knows the secret to getting your 5 year old son to stop communicating about eliminating, I'm all ears.

Potty Training Your Baby Age three Weeks

Potty Training Your Baby Age three Weeks

A new mom will quickly learn when baby is telling her that he is tired or hungry. Baby will also tell you when he is about to soil his diaper - or 'eliminate' in the jargon. The signs are usually a grunting and moving into a certain position. My son used to get this far away look on his face and he would be very noisy so that everyone around him knew what was on the way!
Many moms in America are now practicing 'elimination communication' whereby they watch baby for signs that he is ready to 'eliminate' and then dangle him over the toilet or a potty. The technique does require virtually constant observation of the baby but apparently baby soon learns the procedure and knows that if he grunts hard enough it saves him having to sit around with a diaper full of you-know-what!

The savings achieved through having to buy far fewer diapers are considerable, and of course you would be doing your bit to help the environment.

Potty training at the 'traditional' age of around 2-3 can be a real battle and a scary time for a kid. My daughter stubbonly refused to use either a potty or the toilet for weeks and finally surcumbed only when we bribed her with the promise of a new dolly! Starting much earlier would spare you both but the technique does require constant attention and, for this reason, some experts 'pooh-pooh' the idea (sorry!) of starting potty training so early. Heather Welford of the National Childbirth Trust believes most parents will be too busy to watch baby all day and says 'I think it will always be something practiced by a minority of parents doing it for ideological reasons such as being closer to the baby or to help save the environment'. Two good reasons I would have thought.

Obesity in Children

Obesity in Children

When it comes to the overall health and well being of your children, many parents seem to overlook the question of weight. Some will just brush off a heavy child as having baby fat, but the fact of the matter is that childhood obesity is a real risk and it is not just baby fat that we are dealing with.

A quarter of all school aged children are overweight or obese. That really is frightening.

One of the major dangers that come with having a child who falls within the childhood obesity scale is that the extra weight that they are carrying could lead to diabetes. And, worryingly around seventy five percent of obose children will become obese adults.

And another worrying statistic. Overweight or obese kids are more likely to suffer bullying at school.

How can you help your child?

You don't have responsibility for the nation's health. But you are responsible for your child's wellbeing

It is said that most children, spend on average about three or more hours every day watching television or playing computer games.

However the recommended amount is no more than two hours.

If your child is spending a long time sitting in front of a screen, be it TV or computer then they are not getting enough exercise and movement into their daily activity.

Turn off the television and play with your child and get him or her involved in some sports so that they will remain active.

It is immportant that parents set a good example to their children. If all you want to do is eat junk food and sit around watching the television then it is likely that this sort of behavior is what your children will do.

Set a good example for your child and get active and adopt a healthy diet. Become more aware of the nutritional value of the foods you eat so that you can cook meals that will meet your children's nutritional needs. Adopt a positive attitude to the preparation of meals. Find joy in serving up tasty meals that you've made. Yes,healthy can also be delicious.

Simple, healthy tasty meals can be created in around 30 minutes. You don't have to spend hours in the kitchen following complicated recipes. Try to eat meals together as a family. Eating and chatting in a relaxed atmosphere is highly beneficial for all the family.

And become more active. It's important to find something you enjoy. That way you'll stick with it.

By working together, playing together, and eating together, you are helping to make sure that your child does not end up suffering from childhood obesity.

The earlier you start, the easier it will be. You won't be trying to undo bad or poor habits.

Be a good role model in all areas of your child's development. For instance, when you begin potty training, show them that washing hands is important.

Children's Books

Children's Books

When writing a manuscript for a story for toddlers it is important to take a moment to try and think like a child. Try to understand from their perspective the type of story they would want to hear and the type of book that would capture their imagination. A toddler needs a story that will engage them and hold their interest. This can be achieved through various methods including the use of fun or rhythmical language or by writing about something that they can relate to. Some of the more successful books for toddlers are written around subjects that form a part of a toddler's daily routine, i.e. potty training, taking a bath, getting dressed etc. and this can be a good place to start when considering the type of story you wish to write. Another obvious way of producing a winning book is through the use of bright and interesting illustrations or through quirky pages, which involve touching different textures or lifting flaps etc. and these are all things that should be considered once your story has taken shape.
Although writing a story for a toddler seems like it should be a simple task it still requires you to work through the same processes as if you were writing any other story. You need to establish a plot and story line that the child can follow with ease. You also need to include characters that toddlers can relate to or understand, e.g. family members or animals. The story must always finish with a happy ending and if possible should have an underlying positive message that you would wish a child to reflect in their own behaviour. For example, being kind to others or telling the truth. Although it is good to include such social messages do not approach them from a sinister perspective. It is not necessary to dwell on the dire consequences of not telling the truth as the story must be uplifting and fun. Toddlers are very honest critics and they know the type of stories and books that they like, and indeed that they will return to time and time again. So once you have written your story why not let a knowledgeable critic give their opinion - read it to a toddler!

Writing for Toddlers - Top Tips for Your Manuscript:

* Keep the language simple

* Consider using repetitive phrases or rhyming words

* Keep the story light-hearted

* Include characters that toddlers will understand and can relate to

* Do not make the story too long

* Finish with a happy ending

So to sum up, writing for toddlers is not as easy as you might think but if you follow our top tips your manuscript will have a better chance of reaching the editors desk rather than ending up in the bin.

Choose The Potty That Is Right For Your Child

Choose The Potty That Is Right For Your Child

Chances are, when you were a child there was only one type of potty to choose from when it was time for training to start. Now, there are literally thousands of choices that you have when it comes time to provide your little one with the most important seat in the house!
Although there are many of these seats that are designed with basically the same structure, there are many colors and designs to distinguish them. Many are made from wood to make them sturdy and have a plastic container that can be easily lifted out and cleaned. Some styles are made specifically for a boy or girl while others are even more personalized.

One style of these seats even has a timer made into the back so that you can keep track of your child's potty time. Some children are better at staying still if they have a designated amount of time to stay each time they try to use the seat.

Another seat that is ideal for some little kings is made to resemble a royal throne. It has a place for a four by six inch photo in the back so your little king can truly make it his own. Once it is no longer needed as a potty, remove the container and replace with the included wooden piece for him to use as a regular seat!

Mission style potty seats are made from wood and also offer a variety of features. Heart-shaped cut outs and spindles are part of the decorations that distinguish the different styles. There are also models that have a book rack made into the sides where you can keep your child's favorite book to help the time pass more easily.

Personalized potty seats also offer individuality that matters for some children. Many models are available that you can have personalized with your child's name so that they feel a sense of belonging with their own special potty seat.

Some potty seats are made to fit on top of a regular toilet to make it easier for your child to use the same toilet that the rest of the family does. These may include steps that will help your child to step up on his/her own. You will also find those that are made to be portable so that you always have your child's own special potty seat wherever you go.

When you make the choice of the potty that you will use to teach your child how to be independent, you will be able to find the simplest and most elaborate, with every type of seat in between. Whether you get the one that is made like a school bus to please your child or the one that has all the accessories to hold wipes and books to make it easier for you, there is something to suit any need if not all of them in one. Ideally, it should be the choice that will make what is normally a trying time easier on both of you.

Having a green baby

Having a green baby

Unfortunately, climate change is a problem that our children will inherit. However, there are ways to limit the impact on the planet the moment your little bundle of joy is born. Here are some useful tips on how to protect the environment for future generations.
Instant food Breastfeeding is the most eco-friendly way to feed your newborn. Breast milk is always at the right temperature, it's free and it's healthier for your baby. There is no packaging, no bottles and no heating or storage required. The World Health Organisation recommends that babies are breastfed for the first six months. If you are not able to breastfeed, there are organic baby milk formulas available.

At six months, it is time to introduce other foods to your baby's diet. If you can, buy organic food that is free from chemicals and pesticides. Organic food minimises the damage to the environment these substances cause.

You could try making your own baby food like pureed banana or carrot. By making it yourself, you eliminate the waste from the packaging.

A clean, green bum The biggest impact babies have on the environment is the massive number of disposable nappies used to keep them clean and dry. Almost 8 million disposable nappies are tossed in the bin in the UK every day. 90% of these nappies are dumped at landfill sites where they can take hundreds of years to decompose (source: Women's Environmental Network). That means that every single disposable nappy every sent to a landfill site is still sitting there.

A solution to the mounting nappy problem is to use reusable nappies. They are not only better for the planet but they could also cost you less especially if you reuse them as your family grows. A report released by the Environment Agency a few years ago provided evidence that washable nappies were just as damaging to the environment as disposable nappies(source: BBC News). The report revealed that it was not so much that the reusable nappy itself that was bad for the environment, but rather the wasteful habits of the users. So, if you do go the reusable nappy route, instead of using the tumble dryer, hang them out to dry, avoid ironing them if possible and wash them at 60 ºC and not 90 ºC.

Reusable nappies are not everyone's cup of tea. If the thought of washing a mountain of dirty nappies brings tears to your eyes, then go for a green disposable nappy. For a little bit extra you can buy greener disposable nappies that biodegrade faster in landfill sites.

On the other hand, if you feel that even reusable nappies impact the environment too much, you could try a technique widely used in China and parts of Africa. It means ditching the nappy altogether. Not for the faint of heart, the no nappy route requires you to watch and learn from your baby in the first few weeks when he/she needs to go. Then you take him/her to the toilet to do its business. In the west it is called Elimination Communication and you can find more information about it on a number of websites.

Wood is good Where there is a baby, you will almost certainly find toys. Sadly though, many toys are made of plastic. Plastic toys are petroleum-based and not all are made to last. Some plastic toys are poorly made and break when banged about as most babies do when they are playing.

If you spend a little more on good quality wooden toys, not only will they last longer, you can pass them on to younger siblings or friends or sell them on the web. If they get played to death, at least they are carbon neutral and will biodegrade.

When shopping for wooden toys, look for the FSC-certified label. This label ensures that the toy is not made from illegally logged timber - an industry responsible for the destruction of some of the world's most valuable forests.

Doesn't include batteries Toys with bright flashing lights and catchy tunes attract children like magnets. But once the batteries wear out, the glitz and glamour quickly fade and the toy ends up gathering dust under their bed. Batteries are made with harmful toxins and as there is no safe way of disposing of batteries, these toxins can pollute the ecosystem.

Growing up green Our children will inherit the future we create and all its problems. Start as you mean to go on. By making green choices, you can limit the impact your baby has on climate change from the day he/she is born.

Baby Pottying or Elimination Communication Can Reduce Your Diaper Use

Baby Pottying or Elimination Communication Can Reduce Your Diaper Use


Your diaper pail can take twice as long to fill simply by offering your baby 'potty breaks' each day!
Use one less diaper today simply by giving your baby some diaper-free time on a towel from your bathroom rail. It's there, perhaps it has been used once and dried ready for another use before going into the wash. It can catch a wee from your baby as they roll about. You were going to wash it anyway, so there is no 'extra' washing - you'll save a diaper each day - saving money and pollution.

When you see them do a wee, cheer with them in a bright way to draw their attention to the sensations they are feeling. This helps them to recognise their needs in time. Often parents will use a cue sound such as 'sss, pss' or a cue word such as 'pee pee!' when their baby goes. This 'cue' can then be used as an invitation at a time you feel your baby may need to go potty - such as when they wake up from a sleep.

Have you heard about 'Baby Pottying' somewhere? Probably - it's the leading edge in environmentally friendly diapering practices, especially when combined with reusable, washable 'modern' cloth diapers.

Baby Pottying is commonly known as Infant Potty Training, Natural Infant Hygiene or 'Elimination Communication' (EC) - as it is a cooperative activity between you and your baby in which you are both striving to be more aware of, and helping your baby develop skills to communicate about their elimination needs: when they need to wee or poo!

You know, it's an activity within the reach of many families - if your baby has some regular diaper free time you are already on your way! Your baby is staying aware of their bodily functions. You are probably becoming unconsciously aware of when they are about to go, too. Baby steps...

"Practicing" baby pottying means you will use diapers less - so they will stay dry and clean for longer longer. The reduction in diaper use won't be immediate, yet with daily opportunities you WILL discover simple skills and strategies which will help you to use one less diaper today, one less diaper tomorrow - and that really adds up!

If you 'save' one diaper a day - a simple goal - over two and a half to three years that will mean an average of 1004 fewer nappies to either go into landfill or through the wash - WOW!

EC is practiced in countries all over the world, and that includes 'modern' cultures with cream carpets and busy lives (all parents have busy lives!). EC is all about the traditional 'art' fostering a unique dance between Mom, Dad and Baby to enhance their communication and bond via the everyday activity of toiletting.

Yes, part time EC is alive and well in the suburbs. Catch a poop in a potty and skip the messy diaper change - today! You'll feel great, and so will your baby.

How Can Elimination Communication Reduce Your Nappy Cost?

How Can Elimination Communication Reduce Your Nappy Cost?

How can you reduce the impact of your baby on the environment and save money on your nappy budget?
Good News! By doing one, you are also doing the other.

Being Green Saves Money and the Earth!

Considering the Earth is high in our collective consciousness these days; it is great to know that helping the environment and saving on your spending on nappies are mutually beneficial.

Your baby wears nappies everyday, and may until they are 3 or even 4 at nights! That is a lot of waste going into landfill. By taking a broader approach to nappies, you can reduce the impact on the environment of your nappy choices at the same time as you reduce your spending.

4 Simple Strategies to Reduce the Environmental Impact of the Nappies Your Baby Uses:

1. Buy Your Disposable Nappies in Bulk - This is called 'precycling' as it prevents potential waste from even coming into your home. We know buying in bulk is cheaper price-wise, but also, less packaging, transport, trips to the shop and advertising also means reducing 'costs' to the environment. Look into 'Bulk Disposable Nappies' online, aiming to find a local supplier for least transportation needs.

2. Use Cloth Nappies - Using Modern Cloth is Cheaper - Yes, you need to buy them in the first place, but do it gradually - one nappy at a time. Each time your a baby wears a soft, waterproofed modern cloth nappy a disposable is prevented from ending up in landfill. Look into 'Pocket' nappies as they dry quickly on the clothesline, and can be easily 'stuffed' with home-made absorbency such as inserts made from old towels or flannels.

3. Give Your Baby Regular Nappy Free Time - Time outside in nature, in the shade of a tree gives your baby that free-wheeling enjoyment of kicking their legs unhindered by a bulky nappy. They can do a wee on the grass rather than in a nappy - it helps the grass grow!

4. Practice Elimination Communication (EC) - do it part time to reduce your overall use of nappies... - By offering your baby the opportunity to go on a potty at nappy changes, before a bath and when they wake up, you'll 'save' the use of some nappies. EC is really the leading edge in environmentally sustainable practices for nappy use! Each nappy that stays drier for longer, that is saved as baby uses the potty, helps the environment.

Using these strategies will help reduce waste going into the environment, and help prevent our natural resources being wasted on disposables worn a few hours before going into landfill. Think small: if you do one little thing each day, it will add up.

Think about it: even ONE less nappy a day will means 1095 fewer disposable nappies used in the next three years - that's a lot of waste prevented from ending up in landfill, our environment.

One last thing. All that experience without a nappy on will help your baby to retain their natural awareness of their body, making eventual toilet training a much smoother and natural transition.