infant pottying

In much of the world babies don’t wear diapers, and they don’t even have “accidents.” Today in the United States most people put their babies in disposable diapers, so many times they don’t even know when the baby has pottied. But babies are actually born not wanting to potty on themselves, and, when we put them in diapers, we train them that that’s where they’re supposed to go. The practice of not using diapers is generally referred to as elimination communication or EC in the US. I know most people around here haven’t even heard of this, but we’re ECing Evalana, and I love it. We still have her in cloth diapers much of the time, depending on what we’re doing, but I know she’s always going to pee a few minutes after she wakes up since she usually stays dry while she sleeps. So, when she wakes up, I take off her diaper and hold her over our lap potty and make a psss psss sound. It’s so much fun when she potties in the potty bowl. She smiles, and I have one less diaper to wash :-).