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I’d love to try it and have considered it, but can’t seem to get organized enough to do it, especially when I have to do things like cook dinner. Maybe with the 3rd baby? ha ha.

we do this occasionally (I say occasionally because he is one of those babies that has no problem sitting in a wet diaper and makes no indication that he is about to go) with my 7 month old. the cueing works pretty well, we put him on one of those toilet seat inserts when he wakes up in the morning and after naps and he loves it.

I lived in India last year and spent lots of time with women who lived on the streets of Kolkata. I was hoping to see EC in practice, as my husband and I have considered it for when we have babies. Yes, the babies don’t wear diapers, but I didn’t see a single mother watching for elimination cues. Instead, babies just peed on their blankets (or on me whenever I was holding them) While it may be possible to practice EC in the States, it’s easier to do it in an undeveloped nation where you don’t have to run to the bathroom, because you sleep, eat, and defecate on the same patch of sidewalk. I saw countless babies sitting bare-bottomed in the dirt and filth of the streets, too. And all the wealthy kids I saw were wearing diapers.

Yes, I have practiced Elimination Communication with both my sons since birth (my baby is 10 months old now)

It is great fun, and like modern cloth diapers, it is quite addictive, too!

Of course over here people use diaper backup between potty visits, and you can ease into the practice gradually.

It is of course fabulous to reduce the waste of three or more years off full time diapers, great for the environment, not to mention the budget in this recessiion!

Lots of parents are practicing this ancient way of caring for your baby’s hygiene needs – casually, having fun connecting with their babies and learning WITH them.

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Charndra

If you want to do it and have the time, fine by me. Personally, I work and so does my husband. We had our two kids potty trained at around 2.5. Yes, we filled up the landfill with diapers, but we do lots of other things to be kind to the environment. I really try not to judge other people’s parenting choices if they aren’t harming their child. For us, though, EC wasn’t something we could ever consider.

I am blown away. I have never even heard of this. I don’t think I would have been very successful. I am prettied grossed out by elimination and don’t much care for it to be on my floor, couch, leg, etc. I would have missed one cue and bought boxes of diapers the same day. Hey, I am crazy enough that if my kid has a bm in underwear while potty training we throw away the underwear. Not my cup of tea.

Nope. Not a chance. I am planning on cloth diapers, but I think staring at my babies’ faces all day trying to figure out if they need to pee would really really stress me out. I mean, I have to feed them, take care of them, take care of myself and do laundry. I don’t have that kind of time.

Interesting to hear from those who did EC and found it helpful. Thanks for weighing in. I’d never heard of this technique. Hey, you learn something new every day, right?

We do full time EC, and it is fun for us but definitely a time commitment. Our baby is 3 1/2 months and has been using the potty since he was 7 weeks. 95% of his poop and about 50% of his pee goes in the toilet. He wears diapers the rest of the time, so there are no messes anywhere. It’s much less messy than cleaning poop off of his butt! It’s very easy to tell when he needs to go – he says, “unh, unh, unh” until he either wets his diaper or one of us notices and takes him to the potty. He doesn’t signal or EC at night – that is when most of that 50% of pee comes in. It’s really pretty awesome! I just saw Mayim Bialik on What Not To Wear. Funny that she’s an EC’er.

We’ve been doing EC with my daughter since she was two weeks old, and she’s now mostly potty trained (at almost 18 months). EC is AWESOME and easy, and it works. I can’t imagine doing anything else with a child now. You can use diapers as much or as little as you want and still do EC–many people use diapers full-time and just take baby to the potty between changes. And yes, I spent a lot of time paying attention to my daughter to see her cues, especially when she was really young, but it didn’t take long to get the hang of it, and it REALLY pays off in the long run, because you get so good at reading your child’s cues and knowing what they need/want. She still doesn’t talk much, but I can understand what she’s communicating much better than many of my friends with older kids, because I’m so used to reading her body language. And anybody who has a toddler knows how helpful it is to understand what your child is saying, and how frustrated they get when you don’t know what they’re saying! Really, the benefits of EC go way beyond pottying. Give it a try–you’ll get addicted immediately.

i did this with my third child – it actually was very convenient – as i could take him to the potty before a big car ride or before we got in the hot tub, and we were safe :)…
At first it’s very much on baby’s schedule (starting around 6 weeks) but they learn to go when they hear the noise, and that makes life a lot easier…