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Thoughts on EC? ("Infant potty training")

RachPipRachPip
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Just started doing some research on this, and although it may be too late for DD#1, I'm curious to try it (sort of) with future children.

Anyone on here currently doing this? Pros? Cons? Advice?

As for those NOT doing it, what are your thoughts on it?

Also - I do realize it's not actually potty training, just to clear that up before my subject get's taken the wrong way.

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Re: Thoughts on EC? ("Infant potty training")

  • StrawberryAlarmClockStrawberryAlarmClock member
    We're not because I know DCP wouldn't go for it and I wasn't sure if I could do it well on my own. Not sure about confusing DS. That said, much 'spect due to you & other Mamas who do it. My great-grandchildren thank you for what you are doing for their environment! (no snark. For realz) I CD but I know ECing is one step above that even. GL :)
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    imageStrawberryAlarmClock:
    We're not because I know DCP wouldn't go for it and I wasn't sure if I could do it well on my own. Not sure about confusing DS. That said, much 'spect due to you & other Mamas who do it. My great-grandchildren thank you for what you are doing for their environment! (no snark. For realz) I CD but I know ECing is one step above that even. GL :)

    Well, thank you! I've got DH on board with it, but I'm still having a little trouble convincing myself. Lol.

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  • huber22huber22

    We do it to a limited degree. For the most part, DS poops on the potty only. It doesn't really save diapers for us because most of the time we take him to the potty when he needs a diaper change anyway. In the morning he waits for us to put him on the potty before he poops. DH is much better at it than I am-- I was gone for 4 days and he didn't change a single dirty diaper.

     I'd reccommend it-- his diaper rashes are fewer and farther between and he LOVES sitting on the potty.

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  • RachPipRachPip
    imagefredalina:

    We part-time EC'd Charlotte from 3 months until she PL'd pretty much totally at 18 months (exept nights, so far still diapered at naptime -- though she usually wakes dry -- and bedtime).

    Char was in daycare full-time, but it's still totally do-able at home.  We started out only putting her on first thing in the morning and right after naps, and expanded from there to after bottles.  She started signing for potty at 8 months, and stopped at 10 lol.  She started walking to the toilet at 11 months, and saying the word at 12 months. 

    Honestly, she would have been out of diapers sooner if we had given her the opportunity to make mistakes and bought her a little potty.  She started taking off her diapers around 16 months, and by 17.5 months she could take every diaper we had off, including aplix, snaps, side snaps, and disposables.  Not wanting to give up dresses lol, we started letting her go pantsless more often and she PL'd in dresses and babylegs.  If we'd done more naked baby time and had a potty for her, she may have PL'd sooner.  Of course there would have been more accidents, too :S.

    Having been through it once, my personal opinion is that the very best time to start is after LO can sit up unassisted (though actually with the donut insert Char could sit without help a good month before she did on the floor; though i was right there ready to catch her) and before they become very mobile, which would be about 6 to 9 months for most babies.  So it's not too late!

    i will also say that Char was kicked out of daycare at 16 months and we got a nanny, which made a HUGE difference i'm sure in the timeframe, but even if she were still in diapers until the typical time of maybe 2.5 years old, i'd still be glad i did it.  It made PL'ing so much less stressful, kwim?  As long as you have realistic expectations and treat it as a positive even if you don't catch, that's still a good thing.  And if your LO shows signs she needs to poop now, go ahead and put her on the potty (a donut ring costs $12) and get her used to it.  Even if you do nothing else, i think it will be good in the end since pooping is so much harder for most LO's than peeing on the potty when it comes time to PL.

    Wow! Thank you so much for all of this! I really appreciate your advice, and not only that, but hearing what you did, what you would've done differently, and what worked great for you really helps!

    Times like these are when I really REALLY love the bump. :)

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  • SpenjaminsSpenjamins
    I simply think it is unnecessary. I don't get why anyone feels the need to do it.
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