Saturday, October 19, 2013

Elimination Communication, a.k.a. Potty Training

Here's a post I never finished from 10/12/2011:


4 dirty diapers from 9am to 10:15am. 1 dirty diaper from 10:15am to 3:30pm. 2 dirty diapers from 3:30pm to 8:45pm. And many, many, successful trips to the potty in between.

Aside from the fluke this morning with the 4 diapers, that's a pretty good day as far as potty training an infant goes.
I am so impressed at how well Virginia goes potty in the toilet. She knows the cue sound we have for her, and goes (or at least tries to go) every time we take her to the bathroom. Sometimes there's just a few drops, which tells me that she's trying to go, and sometimes it just keeps coming and coming, which tells me she was holding it.

We began the process when she was a newborn. Every time we could tell she was going to the bathroom we would give her the cue noise we chose to teach her to associate the noise with the action of her releasing her bowels.

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