Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Elimination Communication with a Twist... and a drag

Today, I was doing many household chores while my almost 7 month old and 2 year old girls played with their toys in the living room.

My toddler yells repeatedly that the baby needs to use the potty.  I have heard that it is common that elimination communication siblings tend to also be in tune to when their younger siblings need to go.  Today was just one of those days I couldn't take advantage and proceeded to do what I was doing and tell my toddler I would be there in a minute.

As I finish my task, I hear my girls babbling a scuffling about (I assume just playing).  I take a peek at my girls and sure enough, my toddler has dragged my baby to the little potty I keep by the front door.  I run toward them, trying to conceal my laughter (I don't want to encourage my toddler to do this lol).  Once I am there, I absolutely can't hide my laughter.  My toddler had undressed the baby as well as take her cloth diaper cover off.  While looking around, I also see a clean diaper on the floor which tells me she was going to attempt to change her baby sister all by herself!

Through all of this process, my baby NEVER protested or cried.  I joke a lot that my toddler can't do wrong by my baby.  If she actually makes the baby cry then, holy moly, she must be doing something especially rough.

Sure enough, the baby had a SLIGHTLY wet diaper, to which I changed her and continued to get her dressed.  I also tried "talking" with my two year old that, though I appreciate her trying to help, to please not undress or drag sister about the room.

My toddler was quite proud of herself but agreed that she wouldn't do that again... though, she's two... I doubt she understood/meant it haha

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Ho Hum

None of us know what we are doing. Just when we think we have it figured out, our little ones chuck a wrench at our face just to make a point lol

A few days in a row, my toddler had a dry diaper after her nap. She was quite proud of herself. So I thought I would put her in a cloth diaper for her nap. She's never been in cloth diapers but I always hear that cloth diapered babies are easier to EC w and potty train. Well... She took the diaper off during her nap and peed all over her bed. Fail.

Put her back in disposables during her naps and, again, a few days in a row of dry diapers and she requested to wear undies to bed. So I let her but w a cloth diaper cover over just in case. Fail.

While we are out, she wears pull ups but she almost never uses them. Having an infant, I don't feel that I can always get her to the potty in time. It's so rare she uses her pull up that I really want to play with having big girl undies outings. She is in undies full time while awake at home. She takes herself to here lil potty or if she has to poo, she tells me so I put her on the toilet (no clue why she prefers it that way but super handy for mama!).

Dare I tempt fate and take her out of the house in undies?
Being an EC family, many of the potty training techniques get lost on us and our children but perhaps someone out there has tips for me! Much appreciated! :)