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DS1 - 3 month update
> Age of
your EC-child...
3 months
> We
started at...
Birth
>
Generally speaking we are doing...
Great, I
can’t imagine doing it differently!
> How do
you know your baby has to go? Baby's signals? Timing? Intuition? Is there a difference for poos and pees?
I just take
him whenever the thought crosses my mind.
I read on list at some point a suggestion to take baby to the potty
whenever transitioning activities (like before putting in swing/chair/bouncy
seat and after taking out of swing/chair/bouncy seat), and I really appreciated
that suggestion – it is a good one. We
typically do potty upon waking, but if he resists then I respect that. I do tend to offer against a tiny resistance
because sometimes he is just grumpy on waking . . . like when his sisters wake
him with their obnoxious noise LOL. And
sometimes he resists a bit because he is uncomfortable with full
bladder/bowels.
> Which
positions/receptacles do you use?
Daytime is
mainly potty with cover at the bathroom counter. We do also use the toilet on occasion. In the car we use a little potty with
cover. Out and about we use public
toilets – I hold him backwards at the toilet while stooping down and resting my
elbows on my thighs – makes aiming easier.
With the girls I always sat backwards on the toilet with them, but with
a boy I am more comfortable having him further back on the toilet. At night we use little potty with cover on
the bed.
> Do you
use diapers or training pants? On
what occasions, what kind of diapers?
We
currently use wool SimplyCover with inserts – infant prefold, homemade 3 layer
cloths the size of infant prefolds, smaller inserts.
> How
are you doing away from home?
Great. We offer the potty when practical, especially
if he signals, and change him when we have a miss. I find it easier to just offer him at a
public toilet or the little potty in the car.
I can’t bear to carry a little potty with me – I got my hands full
trying to keep track of 3 kids. Thank
goodness I don’t need to carry a “diaper bag”.
I can hardly manage to carry my purse these days.
> What
are you doing at night?
We offer
the potty at the bed. We change when
wet. I had been thinking that my 2nd
daughter that started at birth was having dry nights at this stage, and we
typically have several misses. We took a
recent trip that presented a change in eating our regular foods. After coming back home, we had a dry night –
our first ever. It was a combination of
reduced volume and frequency, as well as a seemingly longer holding time in
waiting for my response. I think that
there is something food related to figure out from it, but it has not been
obvious or easy. I am still trying to
figure out the combination of conditions that got us there.
> Who
takes baby to the potty?
Me, DH,
nanny
> Accidents
- how many do you have? What
times are especially accident-prone?
I really
don’t pay attention. I have lots of
backup, enough to be lazy about washing.
I change when wet and offer when it occurs to me.
> Other
new insights:
I was
starting to transition to up/down backup at this point with my DD whom we
started with at birth. I have tried the
up/down backup with DS, but I feel it is less practical. With a girl you can pull panties down to
knees to offer, and I wouldn’t worry about her peeing on her panties. With a boy, I feel that I need to take them
completely off – so it is just easier to do the SimplyCover (note we use the
one snap, wool version) with inserts. My
girl was also an April-born baby, so she had a bit more freedom from clothing
at this same stage. My boy is an
August-born baby, so we are always in wool splits that make up/down trainers a
wee bit more difficult anyway.
Also, I
have enjoyed this infancy so much, and I do think that part of that reason is
related to dietary changes that we have made.
We are dairy, wheat and now corn free.
It has been a wonderful and amazing journey, and my baby seems more
content and easy-going. Of course, it
helps that I too am enjoying the benefits of those food eliminations. Some days, I wish I had been able to do the
eliminations sooner, but all in all, I am just glad that I managed to do them
when I did.
> What
do you like most about ec’ing at the moment?
I love
taking him to a potty and caring him while he eliminates. I love that we do not catch much poo in our
backup as a lot goes in our potties. I
love that when we are out and about that I don’t have to lay him down anywhere
to keep him clean and dry.
> Do you
ever wish you'd have never heard about it?
No.
> Tips
for this stage . . .
Go with
confidence to the potty when it crosses your mind. Even if it seems like you were just there
and/or there is no *good* reason. *That*
just caught me a poo!! And every time I
go, I am confident that we will have a great time.
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