| Let's Compare Infant Pottying to How Your Baby | | | | to always get it right. You expect them to fall over, |
| Learns to Crawl then Walk: | | | | and gently encourage them with smiles and cheers to |
| Babies gradually discover the skills to creep, crawl and | | | | keep trying. It doesn't matter how many times they |
| then walk. We don't wait until they have the strength, | | | | tumble, it's all valuable experience! With infant potty |
| muscle mass and a certain age to allow them the | | | | training, or elimination communication, it's all about the |
| opportunity to roll, crawl and walk. That would be silly! | | | | communication, paving the way to eventual |
| Yet our society is afraid of gradually allowing our | | | | independence through fun moments helping your baby |
| babies to develop their continence skills, thinking they | | | | relieve themselves somewhere other than their |
| are somehow incapable until two years old. Of course, | | | | clothing (as diapers are clothing to your baby!) In |
| they are born with rudimentary skills just as they can | | | | between potty breaks, your baby wears a diaper or |
| move a little. With this article, I'll help you to realize that | | | | nappy. When they are wet, you change their nappy, |
| approaching this part of the natural development of | | | | just as if you were using nappies full-time. Yet, overall, |
| your baby with a relaxed and gentle approach makes | | | | you will use less nappies or diapers! |
| a lot of sense to you. | | | | 3. A lot of the so-called controversy over Infant Potty |
| 1. Infant Potty Training is no different to your baby | | | | Training is due to the fact people mistakenly think it is |
| gradually learning to walk, in the sense that they are | | | | like conventional toilet training applied to a baby, which |
| gradually developing their awareness and skills related | | | | is simply wrong. Those of us who love it have |
| to toilet use - with our loving assistance and guidance. | | | | mastered the realization that Infant Potty Training is |
| As with encouraging your baby to move with | | | | really about the relationship between us. It is about |
| excitement at their attempts at wriggling, rolling and | | | | helping your baby stay as clean and dry as you can |
| creeping, with Infant Potty Training, it's the same. You | | | | by giving them those timely opportunities to go, rather |
| simply offer your baby the opportunity to regularly use | | | | than always simply cleaning up after them. |
| a toilet place, knowing they won't be able to | | | | When practicing EC, diapers are used part-time, more |
| independently use it, yet they can gesture, indicate their | | | | casually. Waste is reduced, so is washing and the |
| desire to use it from quite young. It won't be all the time | | | | money you need to spend on this daily hygiene need. |
| - just as they will fall when learning to crawl, then walk. | | | | Look into it a bit further - there are growing resources |
| 2. When holding the chubby hand of your baby as | | | | online. |
| they begin cruising the furniture you don't expect them | | | | |