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DD2 - 3 month update * Age of your EC-child:
3 months
* We started at... birth
* Generally speaking we are doing... great. We are still enjoying our potty time
immensely. I do wonder if I am creating
a vain little girl, as she loves to sit on the potty and look at herself in the
mirror a lot!
* How do you know your baby has to go? Baby's signals?
Timing? Intuition? Is there a difference
for poos and pees?
We rely mainly on baby’s signals at this point for general
responses. She is at a stage where she
wants to hold it for longer periods of time.
We do offer her pottytunities before leaving the house on a car ride,
and I am always amazed at how well she responds to this. We are currently trying to figure out poos,
as she has started skipping days without the big poo that I am expecting. I tend to get on edge that the poo must be
there, but it just doesn’t seem to be.
* Which positions/receptacles do you use? We are mainly using the BBLP now. We still also use a variety of over the
toilet, toilet w/insert, potty bowl, in-arms outside and over the sink.
* Do you use diapers or training pants? On what occasions,
what kind of diapers? We use a mix
of Delia Cover (size M) & insert, Bright Bots (size S or M), Snap Pants
(size S or M), b’undies (size M), Poquitos (size L) – all depending on my mood
and laundry status. It is nice to be
using Jane’s old trainers now. My medium
B’undies fit both girls right now. I am
also starting to enjoy using the Bright Bots on Helen, as they just seem like
baby undies in fit, function and form. I
like the pull-up/down aspect, and it seems easier than working snaps
sometimes. Now, I haven’t missed a poo
yet in them, so that may change my mind.
* How are you doing away from home? We are doing fairly well, but Helen seems to
have become uncomfortable using the potty bowl.
I don’t know if that is because we use the potty bowl in any environment,
thus many distractions or maybe she is developing a preference for a more
appropriate potty place? I don’t really
know. Today she wouldn’t go when I had
her on the potty bowl in my lap, but when I then took her to the toilet she went
right away.
* What are you doing at night? Delia Cover with insert is what we currently
use. Little hemp usefuls (trifold hemp
one-wet soaker) are easy to keep stacked by the bed and are easily changed out
with a miss. Most nights are great with
a long dry stretch, 1-3 catches, and 0-2 misses. However, we do have some nights that seem to
be random (though I am sure they are not, probably related to my performance)
with 4-6 misses and no apparent dry stretch.
Many times Helen wakes at 2:30
for eating, but no peeing. That really
frustrated me initially because I thought for sure she should need to pee, but
most nights she does not. So those
random high-miss nights really throw me for a loop because they seem so
different from our other nights.
* Who takes baby to the potty? Me, sometimes DH
* Accidents - how many do you have and what times are
especially accident-prone? I
haven’t figured out a way to keep track of how many accidents we are having,
and it really varies widely from day to day.
Our accident prone times . . . I can’t even really keep track of that,
as that seems to vary too.
* Other new insights:
The girl definitely waits until I have to set her down to pee! There are times that I set her down to tend
to her sister, brush my teeth/hair, do something that just finally needs to get
done with a baby in arms, and I always seem to push those times a little too
far. Sometimes it seems that just the
act of being out or arms makes her pee.
Of course, many of those times are in the morning which is a frequent
pee time for us. Some days I get it, and
some days I don’t – but the more tired I am, the more misses we have for sure.
* What do you like most about ecing at the moment? I love putting her in little undies. She looks so cute in them.
* Do you ever wish you'd have never heard about it? No, never, I feel sorry for all the moms who
have not yet heard about it.
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