So I've come across this elimination communication method and on youtube it looks very promising but it's such a foreign idea! I'm already going to cloth diaper but I'd much rather not need to change a bunch of diapers and wash them and all that if I don't HAVE to. Have you tried this and have any feedback? Is there a great go to book/film anyone suggests?

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Re: Elimination Communication- Yes? No?
I read Diaper Free Baby. I thought it was a good book.
You don't have to go "all out" to do EC- which is what I liked about the book. Our little one still wears diapers- We sit our LO on the potty every morning and he goes pee or poop most of the time. We also leave him diaper free for a little bit every night.
If you're interested go for it! If it's not for you it's not like you can't go right back to how you were doing things.
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It's not actually potty training.
You can't actually expect your child to hold it and go when you ask (if they don't already have to go). . . however, if you can read their cues or catch their timing they can learn to go when you put them on the potty. According to my reading, the bolded part is actually not true. Living creatures, be it human or animal, do not naturally want to be in the own pee/poop. Babies are aware of when they need to go and can wait a very short time before they go. (Like long enough to get to a toliet.) We train them that it's okay to go in a diaper and sit in it.
I'm sure I'm coming off like I'm on a high-horse. We don't actually EC all the time and my kid does go in diapers. But, we do EC some of the time and I've had to expalin to to family who initially gave me the side-eye and insisted we were wasting our time. It sure is nice not to change a poopy diaper every morning! Depending on how you go at it- it doesn't have to be a ton of extra work.
This is awesome; thanks for sharing. Did you use any particular resources (like Diaper Free Baby?)
This has been our experience too. If DD is not distracted, poops are much easier to catch.
YESSSS DO IT!!
I have done EC with our baby since he was 2 months old. It is seriously the best decision I ever made!! It's really not hard at all, saves money, no diaper rash, won't ever have to potty train and my baby doesn't have to sit around in his feces.
Babies are born with the instinct of knowing when they need to go and not wanting to wet themselves. EC is practiced in half of the world (China, Africa, India, South America...) and has been practiced for centuries. It works. Why else would an African woman put a naked baby in a sling on her back??!