In hall honesty, we could have tried it a few days ago as he started to get into some kind of pattern with his poops that I could read but for the 1st week of his life it was so random I thought it really wasn't worth trying then.
I'd just fed him and he was a little fussy and squirmy and twisting around a bit so I thought I'd try- I held him over the basin with his onesie rolled up and nothing on the bottom ½ and made little grunty noises and within 2-3 seconds he wee-ed and then a few seconds later did a poop! He seemed so relaxed about it and like he knew what to do...I was so pleased!
I then popped a fresh nappy on him and he settled straight down for a snooze.
Any of you with little ones or little ones on the way who want to give it a shot, I say go for it...perhaps it was a little fluke for us but it just made so much sense to me and I think it'll be what we do when we can in the future.
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