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Oct 2007
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It's true - Toilet trained at 3 months!
Hi All,
My friend has toilet trained her 3 month old. She started when he was about 2 months. After a feed, she would make him poo in his nappies and now he only poos in a small potty. She is holding him of course, so its not like his actually sitting there and pooing.
Anyway, she suggested I do the same thing to DD. What do you girls think? Too early?
I personally think it is too early and prefers her to just poo in her nappies, but it might be because im lazy >.<
I personally find it a bit odd.
Good on her, but she'll still have to TT when bubs gets older for wee's.
Most babies poo just after a feed, so if I was you I wouldn't worry.
Their toilet habits will change alot over the coming months.
I wouldnt worry either, I too think its a bit weird. I think with a small baby you have enough going on without doing this as well, and there is nothing saying that you wont have to TT again when they are older?
I think the baby has toilet trained your friend lol.
Lots of people find that elimination communication works for them and most babies that use EC are properly toilet trained quite young. In some cultures it is tthe main method of toileting and seeing a baby in nappies is quite rare.
It's too much work for me but I think that anything that increases communication between mum and bubs is lovely.
If you do a search for elimination communication you should find some more info.
As soon as Izzy could sit up my mum got her a potty and would put her on it for poos (at that time she poo'd at the same time every day! ) I have been far too lazy to do it though - my sisters kids were only doing wee's in nappies by about 10-11 mths as they would grunt and let us know if they needed to poo! Hehe! Izzy tells us after the fact but we will try soon. As long as it's not stressful for either bub or mum and she can bothered good on her! No pooey nappies would be great!
I have just been doing some reading about this today, if you do a search on "tribal baby" you will get some common sense info from an aussie lady that does this full time but has info for people who want to do it part-time. It does sound realistic & possible. Goodluck
for me I say let your baby be a baby they have to grow up so fast these days anyway why take away something that is what babies do.... I am TT my DD2 ATM and she is doing really well but it is also sad for me as this is the 1st thing your baby has to do for its self the 1st bit of responsablity your baby has to have, the 1st step into been a responsable human...One of the 1st things to let you know that your sweet little baby is no longer a baby but a big person now
I can't say I think elimination communication is weird per se. I don't think it's 'lazy' not to do it though. To EC, you really have to be with the child all the time, as you don't know when it's going to happen (no way my kids go at the same time each day).
I don't have the time or patience and I don't have the desire to be cleaning up the messes all the time either. But I can't see anything 'wrong' with it.
It's not toilet training, it's toilet timing to hold a child over a potty after a meal. It's been done for a long long time, my grandmothers generation used to do it for sure. But then again, back then they had to use terry or flanny flats with pins and handwash everything - boiling nappies I think even in those days. Now we have modern cloth nappies which are easy to change and easy to use, liners which help the poo roll off into the toilet, we dry pail and have washing machines to do the washing. So having more nappies doesn't really make that much difference to us these days IMO.
It becomes a different thing when you go to toilet training and they have to feel when its coming and have forewarning and the ability to toilet themselves - but you have to get there somehow. Whatever makes one happy in the meantime really.
I have heard of people doing this.. I personally couldn't be bothered with it.. I think it is a lot of hard work and you need to be really committed to it..
Nothing like a cuddle from DD after a hard day's work!
It's true - Toilet trained at 3 months!
) I have been far too lazy to do it though - my sisters kids were only doing wee's in nappies by about 10-11 mths as they would grunt and let us know if they needed to poo! Hehe! Izzy tells us after the fact but we will try soon. As long as it's not stressful for either bub or mum and she can bothered good on her! No pooey nappies would be great!
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