Infant Potty Training on CNN

How to raise your baby without diapers and help save the mother Earth.

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• ellimination
• communication
• Infant
• potty
• training
• diaper
• free

[newage2000]

I run a website on Infant Potty Training

Many parrents send me email asking how to get off diapers their 3 or 4 years old kids. Can you imagine???

[newage2000]

We did Infant pottiy training from the second week after birth. At 40 days our baby already knew the potty (we used a plastic basin) and eliminated when we positioned him over it. Later he DID NOT NEED any potty training, since he already had elimination habits aquired earlier, just the difference was that instead of the basin now he was sitting on the potty.

[mastersnet18]

Its funny how recently americans have become fascinated with "new" childcare methods such as this and breastfeeding for example when its been done for thousands of years and is still done in most countries today

[newage2000]

@mastersnet18

In our country we say that everything new is just the forgotten past.

[misslcean57]

I wonder what they do when the baby outgrows the "pee bowl"-turns my stomach!

[newage2000]

it turns my stomach when I see huge mountains of dirty diapers rotting for generations ahead. in USA 22 billion dirty diapers are disposed in the environment every year. Just try to imagine a mountain the size of your city, consisting nothing but dirty diapers. Just because parrents prefer diapers instead to infant potty training.

[jbean0]

I can't even begin to explain just how WRONG it is to have an unpotty trained 4 year old...I honestly think it borders child abuse.

[newagebulgaria]

I wonder how they do it in Afrika. People who went there say that their babies NEVER wear diapers, yet mothers NEVER get soiled while carrying their babies. So how they do it?

[thewolfandthebear]

@strollertwinbaby You make a great point here - that elimination communication is a lifestyle, in the same way that diapering is a lifestyle. Once you ease into it, it's just routine. :)

[thewolfandthebear]

I think putting the baby to potty every 20 minutes is little too much. I'm just starting out with EC and I'm still halfway through reading this book called EC Simplified (Hey, I'm a work at home mom of 2, so right now, I need simple,straightforward, and step-by-step guidance!) but based on what I read in the book so far, it's one thing to be observant and to respond to signs, but it's another to be making life all about potty. I honestly don't think that's how EC is supposed to be.

[SammiEnka]

It's not really potty training, its just avoiding diaper training when you think about it. Newborns famously eliminate when their diapers are removed, and I've seen advice that says to hold the diaper on them if they do that, and don't remove until they're finished. To me that sends the message to a baby that this is the place to eliminate, and then when they have learned to soil themselves and become indifferent for 2 or 3 years, then you try and teach them to do it in a different place?

[mastersnet18]

I agree ive seen 4 or even 5 year olds still wearing diapers its just wrong

[jwikan]

@misslcean57 I just hold my daughter in front of me on the adult toilet now (12 weeks old). She absolutely loves it and will go in any toilet now public or private. It is an instinct infants are born with. I saw them doing this type of thing when I was in Bangladesh. Although they don't always even own toilets there. This is the way it has been done for thousands of years before diapers. I was skeptical but it works.