Elimination Communication sounds like something that would require years of training right? lol Basically, it means learning your baby's cues that tell you when he or she is going to go potty or teaching your baby cues when to go potty. Yes, I know, it sounds crazy right? How could my infant possible know when they are going to go potty? Talk to someone who has done this and they will enthusiastically tell you about the moment when they made this connection with their child.
There are some people who sit their baby on their choice of potty many, many times a day. I applaud them, however, having 5 kids and being in school, I don't have that kind of time. I take a more relaxed approach to ECing. Whenever I change my baby's diaper I put him on the potty for a few minutes. I started this with Thalea, my 4th daughter, when she was about 2 months old and she was out of diapers during the day by the time she was 18 months old. In the last few months that she was in diapers, she wasn't using nearly as many as a toddler who hadn't been EC'd.
We started with my son, Thales, much earlier since we already had the potty and the theory. He's done fairly well so far, we've caught quite a few pees and poops. He started rejecting the potty a few weeks ago, so we have taken a little break, but will be starting again.
The way that I look at it is - every pee or poop that we catch in his little potty is another diaper that I don't have to wash. ;-)
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Saturday, November 6, 2010
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Almost 40 wk Update
This was originally posted on my old blog on April 29, 2010.
I'll be 40 wks tomorrow. Can't say yet if anything exciting is going to happen or not. Doubt it given my history, but this little boy acts like he's going to be doing things his own way. I just hope that my pelvis doesn't start hurting anymore than it does right now. Feels pretty good at the moment so...
Student Midwife update: I'm on hiatus at the moment. I did finish Phase 2 and had sort of started Phase 3 before I started this hiatus. I'm still working through the Midwifery Explorations class, would have liked to have finished it before the baby came, but diapers are a little more important. lol
The diapers, well that has been a long project that started over a year ago. When I was pregnant with my nearly 3yo I had bought 36 Bum Genius (BG) cloth diapers, 12 pink, 12 white, 6 yellow and 6 green. I love them, they make cloth diapering so easy! However, after nearly 2 years of use I noticed the elastic in the legs wasn't as snappy as it used to be. Being the crafty do-it-yourselfer that I am, I took one diaper apart to see how hard it would be to change that elastic. It was fairly easy, just take out one seam and the old elastic, put in new elastic (guessing how long that should be was kind of tricky) and sew the seam back up. So, winter before last I replaced the elastic in maybe two-thirds of the diapers. My daughter was only using them about half time so I didn't really *have* to fix them all. I got pregnant again last fall and new I would have to finish fixing the rest of the diapers. I heard that you could get the new BG diapers with snaps rather than velcro and was a little jealous. The only thing I don't like about my BGs is the velcro, it's just a pain in a variety of ways. I had just bought a snap press last year for some other sewing projects.
Then I found out I was having a boy. No way! Me? A boy!? Are you sure?? lol I looked at my diapers and knew I had a lot of work to do. I ordered some fabric dye, which was tricky trying to find the right dye that would stick to a synthetic material. So now, I knew that I had to finish replacing the elastic in the legs, dye at least the pink diapers, AND take all the velcro off and put snaps in. :-) At this point, I've finished replacing all of the elastic, the last four diapers that needed to be dyed are in the dye soaking at the moment, and I only have about 12-15 that still need snaps. I'm so proud of myself, they look really nice. I just hope that the dye really does hold. We still have plenty left so we can re-dye if necessary, but I'd rather not have to do that on a frequent basis.
That's where I am for now.
P.S. A little note, there are some people that comment on my blog Anonymously, can you at least put your first name in your comment so I have some idea who you are?? lol It's bugging me that someone is talking to me and I have no clue who it is.
I'll be 40 wks tomorrow. Can't say yet if anything exciting is going to happen or not. Doubt it given my history, but this little boy acts like he's going to be doing things his own way. I just hope that my pelvis doesn't start hurting anymore than it does right now. Feels pretty good at the moment so...
Student Midwife update: I'm on hiatus at the moment. I did finish Phase 2 and had sort of started Phase 3 before I started this hiatus. I'm still working through the Midwifery Explorations class, would have liked to have finished it before the baby came, but diapers are a little more important. lol
The diapers, well that has been a long project that started over a year ago. When I was pregnant with my nearly 3yo I had bought 36 Bum Genius (BG) cloth diapers, 12 pink, 12 white, 6 yellow and 6 green. I love them, they make cloth diapering so easy! However, after nearly 2 years of use I noticed the elastic in the legs wasn't as snappy as it used to be. Being the crafty do-it-yourselfer that I am, I took one diaper apart to see how hard it would be to change that elastic. It was fairly easy, just take out one seam and the old elastic, put in new elastic (guessing how long that should be was kind of tricky) and sew the seam back up. So, winter before last I replaced the elastic in maybe two-thirds of the diapers. My daughter was only using them about half time so I didn't really *have* to fix them all. I got pregnant again last fall and new I would have to finish fixing the rest of the diapers. I heard that you could get the new BG diapers with snaps rather than velcro and was a little jealous. The only thing I don't like about my BGs is the velcro, it's just a pain in a variety of ways. I had just bought a snap press last year for some other sewing projects.
Then I found out I was having a boy. No way! Me? A boy!? Are you sure?? lol I looked at my diapers and knew I had a lot of work to do. I ordered some fabric dye, which was tricky trying to find the right dye that would stick to a synthetic material. So now, I knew that I had to finish replacing the elastic in the legs, dye at least the pink diapers, AND take all the velcro off and put snaps in. :-) At this point, I've finished replacing all of the elastic, the last four diapers that needed to be dyed are in the dye soaking at the moment, and I only have about 12-15 that still need snaps. I'm so proud of myself, they look really nice. I just hope that the dye really does hold. We still have plenty left so we can re-dye if necessary, but I'd rather not have to do that on a frequent basis.
That's where I am for now.
P.S. A little note, there are some people that comment on my blog Anonymously, can you at least put your first name in your comment so I have some idea who you are?? lol It's bugging me that someone is talking to me and I have no clue who it is.
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